Larry Kramer: ‘Some constraint makes for a much better debate’
New LSE vice-chancellor discusses ‘Wild West’ US, dealing with campus protests and the personal turmoil that led him to make the switch to London
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Visa clampdowns put brakes on international student mobility
Global survey finds that 41 per cent of institutions reported fewer international postgraduate students in this year’s intake compared to 2023
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UKRI announces £564 million for revamped PhD studentships
New doctoral training schemes will simplify and harmonise the support offered to funded PhD students, says UK Research and Innovation
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‘Huge class imbalance’ in access to creative degrees in UK
Graduates from privileged backgrounds almost six times more likely to work in creative industries than poorer people with only GCSEs
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What problem are you really trying to solve with TNE? Are you sure?
Universities often say they are pursuing transnational education for both love and money. But that can make for a strategic muddle, warns Stephen Thomas
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Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings 2024: methodology
This is how we assess the data and produce the tables for the Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings, based on information from 171 institutions
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UK research ‘foundations are crumbling’, Cranfield v-c warns
Dame Karen Holford tells MPs that financial stress caused by visa restrictions are hurting R&D ecosystem while Aria bosses outline their strategy to Lords
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Diana Beech to head new policy institute at City St George’s
London Higher chief executive moves into new role focused on translating interdisciplinary research into public policy solutions
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Queen Mary moving Palestine talk to smaller venue ‘weak-willed’
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has been giving a series of London lectures on ‘genocide in Gaza’ and international law
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Latin America University Rankings 2024: results announced
Brazil back at number one as new metrics reveal country’s research strength
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‘Managerialist’ overreach ‘biggest problem for academics’
Universities’ instinct to ‘de-risk everything’ makes things worse for everybody, says academic émigré
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European business schools capitalising on UK’s recruitment woes
Faltering UK recruitment is being capitalised on by business schools in the continent
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Can Alibaba’s university courses help China outpace the West?
Chinese multinational makes inroads in Europe as technology giants compete to get their tools on university curricula
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Account for sex and gender in UK health research, urges guidance
Framework for UK health funders will require applicants to explain how they will consider and distinguish sex and gender in their work
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There is more to the marketisation of English HE than neoliberalism
Political interventions on a host of issues suggest marketisation’s opponents are wrong to see neoliberalism as the root of all evil, says Gerbrand Tholen