Dare to be positive about Europe’s lowest-performing regions
Ahead of the Times Higher Education Research Excellence Summit in the Czech Republic, Jan Palmowski summarises the changes needed to unlock the research potential in new Europe
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Research prestige boosts students’ satisfaction, study finds
Evidence from German Excellence Initiative suggests elite status rubs off on student perception – even if this is irrational
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US student enrolment growth to ‘decline over next decade’
But government data predict that share of black and ethnic minority students on campuses will rise
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Students must lead the fight for fewer guns on US campuses
It’s time for students to step in and end the political stalemate on stopping gun violence on university campuses, says Sarah Kenny
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Economists’ communication problems extend to social media
Struggle to engage effectively highlighted by study comparing Twitter use with other disciplines
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UK’s elite universities ‘still have social justice problem’
Education committee chair Rob Halfon says ‘sanctions’ should be applied where numbers of disadvantaged students stall or decline
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Is science really facing a reproducibility crisis?
NAS calls for US lawmakers to bring change also brings warning that crisis talk may ultimately ‘stifle frontier discoveries’
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Required reading: ‘Ensure students have the money to live’
A National Union of Students’ report offers recommendations that could help eliminate the ‘poverty premium’ suffered by working-class students
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Contract cheating ‘ripe to explode’
Universities must be vigilant in age of social media and sneaky technology, researchers warn
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NUS calls for ‘minimum living income’ for post-16 students
Poverty Commission finds ‘clear link’ between social class and poverty in English tertiary education
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UK’s share of EU research funding drops after Brexit vote
Data is latest evidence uncertainty caused by the referendum result has cost British academics
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The experiences of women of colour can challenge academia’s status quo
After publishing a collection of narratives from women of colour in academia, Deborah Gabriel has seen how personal experiences of whiteness can make progress towards racial equality
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Australian tertiary participation to fall, thinktank warns
A dwindling share of post-school students could leave the country’s workforce short of know-how
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‘Unethical not to’ submit Brexit interviews to MPs, says academic
Emma Briant defends actions over exchanges with key figures from Leave.EU and Cambridge Analytica parent