15 February 2024 digital edition
Scope for pushback: Amid intense scrutiny and political assaults, US universities are silent. Why?
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Challenging racism takes time – but UCU is doing it
We won’t stop until staff and members in every branch, every department and every team feel that they are treated fairly and equally, says Jo Grady
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Attacks on universities ‘harness HE resentment and graduate woes’
University of Oxford professor Simon Marginson says populist targeting of higher education by Trump, DeSantis and others is finding favour with both graduates and non-graduates alike
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A success recast as a great mistake
Across the Western world, decades of growth in university participation are being repainted as a policy error as funding woes come to a head
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Antisemitic incidents in higher education triple amid Gaza crisis
Anti-Jewish hate reaches record high as vast majority of cases recorded by Community Security Trust come after 7 October
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Interview with Mark Brandon
Polar scientist on working with David Attenborough, capturing nuance in diversity debates and the continued importance of the Open University
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Does hybrid working spell end of the individual faculty office?
Growing scrutiny of empty departmental workplaces has revived the fraught debate over whether academics should retain their own assigned office
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Labour’s ‘silence’ on graduate visas raises UK sector alarm
Opposition scenting power urged to ‘show political leadership’ in face of Tory pressure to scrap or scale back post-study work route
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‘Pod-sized’ rooms plan to reduce UK student rents
Hepi paper says rents need to come down by about 30 per cent in response to cost-of-living crisis
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The week in higher education – 15 February 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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University rankings are thriving: just look at the data
Reports of the demise of university league tables are greatly exaggerated. Our rankings are growing in size and influence, writes David Watkins
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UK university applications down for third year in a row
Ucas data reveals drop in application rate among UK school-leavers and significant declines in international interest from key sectors, with least selective institutions bearing brunt
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Richard Sennett: ‘I’ve always felt like a fish out of water in academia’
The feted urban sociologist Richard Sennett tells Matthew Reisz about how his former career as a cellist inspired his latest trilogy of books, why his ideal university would be more night school than...
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Why aren’t US university leaders pushing back against political attack?
The political maelstrom around US universities’ handling of pro-Palestinian protests reflects a right-wing campaign that is increasingly challenging higher education’s autonomy to determine its...
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There is a way out of cancel culture – but it’s not free speech
A competing human rights framework would help the likes of Jo Phoenix and her critics into a dialogue shaped by active listening, says Andy Hargreaves