Thai protest movement a test for academic freedom
Government issues arrest warrants for students and files complaint against an overseas academic as protests, some held on university campuses, intensify
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Academics have the right to make wrong arguments
Scholars should not face official censure for making provocative statements on social media, but they have a responsibility to embody academic values of empathy and self-reflection in their online...
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THE World University Rankings 2021: methodology
Institutions across the globe provide us with information that we scrutinise rigorously to construct the World University Rankings. Here we explain how we assess data on more than 1,500 institutions...
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Germany’s unique work-study system creaks under pandemic strain
Germany has tradition of student placements in firms and universities, but coronavirus lay-offs highlight lack of state support for living costs
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Universities should rethink their complicity in corporate bad behaviour
David McClough reflects on whether higher education should take to the morally higher ground
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Acronym acrimony: glut of abbreviations ‘hindering understanding’
Australian analysis finds acronym use has multiplied tenfold in abstracts, with 94 per cent of 17,500 possible three-letter combinations used at least once
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How much should A-level grades decide university admissions?
The A-level grading fiasco has highlighted the limitations of using exam results to assess undergraduate preparedness, says Suleiman M. Sharkh
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A levels: are students really ‘trading up’ to selective universities?
Some predict lower-tariff institutions will not necessarily be the ones to lose out, while there is also hope that crisis may curtail negative political narrative around HE
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University teaching should stay remote, says Independent Sage
Group of prominent UK scientists warns that the risk of infection is too high for in-person teaching
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Returning Chinese scholars ‘marginalised’ at home and abroad
Chinese academics coming home from overseas should be seen as a source of new ideas, not sidelined, study says
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‘More scrutiny needed’ on Chinese talent recruitment
Australian thinktank tracks sharp increase in overseas recruitment stations and warns of links to covert activities
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Stigma of leaving creative industries is harming careers of arts graduates
Dread of ‘selling out’ and heroic figure of ‘struggling artist’ cause many creative arts graduates to persist with dead-end jobs rather than maximising their skills in alternative careers, says...
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Sydney hoses down speculation of job losses in the thousands
Australian university insists it is just planning for potential scenarios, amid claims that 3,000 jobs are at risk
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Australian ministers’ radical fee reform creates storm of uncertainty
Different scenarios for legislative progress force universities to plan for range of outcomes
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Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, by Kate Manne
Emma Rees praises a lively yet forensic analysis of systemic misogyny