Australia considers formalised recognition of micro-credentials
Questions around quality assurance, regulation and where certificates from courses such as Moocs belong on the qualifications ladder
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Is grade inflation weakening the value of higher education?
Brian Poole asks if grade and聽credential inflation has resulted in too many degree holders chasing too few jobs
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Rare US college serving black women in fight for survival
Bennett College seen as exemplifying challenges faced by small, private, minority-serving and women-only institutions
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鈥楴o evidence鈥 that luxury laboratories lead to better science
New book explores proliferation of 鈥榮tarchitect鈥-designed facilities聽
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Elite colleges should use a lottery to admit students
Choosing applicants to top institutions like Harvard by lottery聽is a fairer and more economical process, argues Natasha Warikoo聽
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色盒直播 podcast: interview with Qatar University president Hassan Al-Derham
Ahead of 色盒直播鈥檚 Emerging Economies Summit 2019, Sara Custer speaks with the host university's president聽
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Online university courses for the masses fail to materialise
In five years, Moocs go from dream of universal education to limited service for higher-end customers
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Writtle fined 拢250K over shortfall on promised outreach spending
Essex institution becomes second institution to be hit by Office for Students access penalty
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Piecemeal Australian reforms 鈥榗ould cost more than they save鈥
Lowering of student loan repayment threshold to recoup an extra A$20 million (拢11.3 million) but cost A$19聽million
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Brexit, xenophobia and foreign students: combating 鈥榩ublic paranoia鈥 over immigration
People are about 15 per cent more likely to favour capping the number of international students when primed to think about them 鈥渃rowding out鈥 domestic students
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Australia: graduate employment and employer satisfaction rise
But聽graduates from more affluent backgrounds fare better, survey finds
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Alumni oppose Australian university鈥檚 name-change proposal
Petition opposing Charles Sturt University鈥檚 plan attracts more than 5,000 signatures
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Letters 鈥撀10 January 2019
Civic role vital to winning long-term security In his leading article 鈥淎聽defining moment鈥 (3 January), John Gill starts with a question: what are universities for? He then suggests with some...
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Welcome advances for universities
Universities may feel held to unachievable standards, but removing barriers for all manner of talented people will make institutions better and stronger
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PhDs without tears: how academics can help ease students鈥 minds
With many doctoral candidates unhappy and reporting mental health problems, Emma Pierson suggests ways supervisors could reduce pressures