Harvard’s postgraduate union move increases pressure on US elite
Ivy League university wins praise for formally recognising trade union created by graduate students who teach
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What is the Chinese government doing to improve education?
With millions of young people needing skills for a modern economy, the country is seeking to make bespoke reforms to overhaul its rote-based education system, says David Smith
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UK refuses to offer pledge on post-Brexit research links with EU
MPs on Science and Technology Committee not satisfied with government response to Brexit report
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THE podcast: Women in higher education
THE editorial staff and sector experts discuss the gender pay gap, female leaders and the first women allowed to sit university entrance exams in the UK
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Next executive chair of UK’s EPSRC appointed
Lynn Gladden, Shell professor of chemical engineering at Cambridge, to lead research council
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Social responsibility ‘can’t be forced’ on academics
Thailand’s education minister tells conference that a consensus is better for ensuring universities help local communities
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Top 100 most innovative universities in Europe 2018
These are the top 100 most innovative universities in Europe according to Reuters’ 2018 innovation ranking
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Stigma over higher education options ‘holds Syrian refugees back’
Session on how best to support refugees from Syria and elsewhere hears evidence that more vocational options are needed
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Mary Maples Dunn, 1931-2018
Tributes paid to a university leader who ‘always believed firmly in what women could do’
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UK universities and students back clearer guidance on free speech
Minister plans to simplify ‘dizzying variety’ of rules on freedom of expression
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Sajid Javid: could he reshape UK’s overseas student regime?
MAC report on impact of international students will be ‘hard to ignore’ for new home secretary
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Australian National University eyes role in new space agency
Funding for organisation expected to be confirmed in federal budget
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Anonymous student feedback not so anonymous, lecturer warns
Those who castigate lecturers in anonymous feedback forms should realise their identity is fairly easy to discern, according to academic
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The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century, by Alex Csiszar
Many issues that vex scholarly publishing today were there at the start, says Geoffrey Cantor
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The week in higher education – 3 May 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media