Adonis v Willetts: a fiery debate that didn’t disappoint
Chris Parr picks through some of the highlights from the tuition fees debate between David Willetts and Andrew Adonis
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Terrorism forces internationalisation efforts ‘back to basics’
Higher education institutions in Turkey and Belgium report decline in staff and student exchanges following attacks
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Global higher education a ‘massive business’ serving ‘the 1%’
Dishonest to claim that internationalisation is for the common good when it reaches so few people, consultant says
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Universities ‘failed to help’ losers of globalisation
Higher education institutions are partly to blame for the hostility they now face, says US vice-provost
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US universities are the most likely to produce millionaires
If you’re hoping to become a millionaire (who isn’t?) then putting an application in to one of these colleges might help you get there
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Experiencing student nursing in the UK and the US
Nursing students from the University of Tennessee and Robert Gordon University visited each other’s colleges to experience the health system in each country
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THE debate: Andrew Adonis and David Willetts
Lord Willetts and Lord Adonis go head to head in this video debate, tackling UK political issues from tuition fees to vice-chancellor pay levels
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Quality, not money, should drive mergers, says funding expert
Unions should be seen as investments in teaching and research quality rather than cost-saving exercises, advises EUA governance specialist
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Europe ‘must improve’ credential recognition for refugees
Quality assurance professionals call for system to verify refugees’ education credentials before ‘next crisis’
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How will Brexit shape the European research landscape?
Holly Else considers how the withdrawal of one of the biggest players in European research could change science on the Continent, and likely national winners and losers
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Downgraded results
There is one clear lesson from the review of the teaching excellence framework and the concerns about grade inflation, and it represents a massive slap in the face to all those who have placed...
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Indignity at work
Jedidiah Evans (“Wrung out and tossed out”, Opinion, 7 September) rightly alerts readers to the systemic issues of casual and part-time academic employment, issues that are not confined to Australia...
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Gene Adam Brucker, 1924-2017
Berkeley scholar of the Renaissance remembered
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Are rising fees bankrolling growth in vice-chancellors’ salaries?
THE pay data since 2010-11 show pay of UK leaders is going up faster than that of rank-and-file academics, but the reasons are less clear
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Interview with John Tresch
The Warburg professor discusses folk practice, emptying Milwaukee’s bins, and bargain cinema tickets