Interview with Stephen Hopgood
We talk internationalisation in the face of Brexit, as well as the “alien” concept of fun for academics, with the international relations professor
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Universities fear being shut out of EU innovation push
European Innovation Council mission to create ‘unicorns’ may deprive academics of funding, critics warn
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UK’s student migration data ‘potentially misleading’
Watchdog says data ‘does not bear the weight that is put on it in public debate’
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New world of work: are universities preparing students for future careers?
How can higher education prepare students for jobs that do not even exist yet? asks Christina Slade
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How Romania’s plagiarism hunter took on the prime minister
Investigative journalist Emilia Sercan defied threats to uncover high-level ring of fraudulent PhDs
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Isabelle Clark-Decès, 1956-2017
A leading anthropologist has died in a fall on a study trip in the Indian Himalayas
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Curtin University prepares to open Dubai campus
Outpost to offer business, media and education courses
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Brexit: what are the options for the UK on research?
There are several stumbling blocks on the way to negotiating access to European research funding, writes Holly Else
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Protecting EU links ‘very high priority’ for UK research chief
Sir Mark Walport acknowledges ‘challenge’ of UK’s departure from European Union as sector anxiety grows
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Mixed Messages: Norms and Social Control around Teen Sex and Pregnancy, by Stefanie Mollborn
‘Nice’ kids are still being told not to do ‘it’, setting off a dangerous dissembling, says Angelia Wilson
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Complicit Sisters: Gender and Women’s Issues across North-South Divides, by Sara de Jong
A study of female NGO workers and the migrants they interact with examines the relationship in all its complexity, says Emma Rees
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Improving How Universities Teach Science: Lessons from the Science Education Initiative, by Carl Wieman
Even scientists may be unmoved by evidence on how to make teaching better, finds Jennifer Rohn
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Transmaterial Next: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine Our Future, by Blaine Brownell
Richard Joyner enjoys a tour of the novel substances that might give tomorrow its form, including a substance seven times less dense than air
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Subject-level TEF ‘may mislead students’
Bundling of subjects under pilot for future phase of teaching excellence framework may ignore diversity and complexity of many disciplines, says engineering body
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The week in higher education – 27 July 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media