University of Austin: the new front in the fight for US campuses
While mocked as a cast of falsely aggrieved outcasts, planned private upstart raises fear of fundamental new avenue of well-resourced partisan attack on academia
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Talking leadership 2: Charlie Jeffery on taking a university back to its civic roots
The University of York vice-chancellor explains how he looked to the past to devise a new institutional mission and why it relates to his own family background
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Tackling white supremacy requires facing up to bullying
Everyone in power in universities, as elsewhere, must grasp their inherent capacity to dominate, intimidate and exclude, says Timothy Carey
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New Zealand appoints first university leader of Pacific heritage
Pacific expert’s selection coincides with policy push to boost islander participation in higher education
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Chinese students ‘positive’ about Australia despite tension
AI analysis of online activity reveals ‘really nice’ sentiment and sophisticated understanding of government structures
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Five decades on, what’s new?
Like the sector it serves, THE has evolved over half a century; but like universities, our purpose remains unchanged
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Bette Davis Black and White, by Julia A. Stern
Lucy Bolton is intrigued by an analysis of changing racial attitudes based on the career of a great Hollywood icon
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Manchester, Melbourne and Toronto launch ‘post-Covid’ alliance
Universities bill partnership as bringing ‘global programmes’ for students as well as joint research on worldwide challenges
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Open Doors: US international student recruitment up by two-thirds
After extended run of pandemic and political obstacles, Biden officials celebrate revival even as totals still lag pre-Covid highs
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Trinity’s first female leader seeks to deliver on change promise
Linda Doyle on making history, meeting Macron and why Normal People doesn’t fully capture her university
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New Zealand mulls introducing base funding for research
Green paper ‘asks the right questions’, including whether crown research institutes should collocate with universities
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The ‘Western university’ is too taken up with scientific knowledge
Other value frameworks, such as those implicit in indigenous knowledges, must be better heard, says Ronald Barnett
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Singaporean students ‘most honest’ among anglophone peers
Half of respondents to survey admit cheating overall, but only 21 per cent of students from Singapore own up
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Let’s get students off the plane and on to the train
Erasmus funding rules should be rewritten to compensate students for the higher cost of travelling by rail, says Connie Hedegaard