Liberal arts teaching should go interdisciplinary
Basing teaching around the fundamental challenges faced by society will benefit both the humanities and humanity itself, says Doug Haynes
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Can university-led innovation really create good jobs for local people?
Post-industrial regions the world over are pinning their hopes on universities to reboot them as prosperous innovation economies. But questions remain about the depth and breadth of the high-tech...
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2U’s edtech ethics submission criticised
Executives at private course supply giant provided testimonials to government in their roles as former students
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US mounts dramatic pivot to ‘place-based industrial policy’
Land of the free market outpaces UK’s muted ‘levelling up’ with funding to leverage power of universities in struggling regions
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‘Game-playing’ claims as Australian employment negotiations drag
Union endorsement proves crucial, as direct pitches to staff falter
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Johnson: OfS hasn’t stopped universities ‘operating like cartel’
Architect of English regulator also criticises universities for ‘sniping’ at it
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Biden delays ban on US universities using foreign companies
After extensive complaints from sector groups, administration postpones but does not abandon prohibition against working with companies from abroad
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Overseas enrolments surge at UK universities
Number of transnational learners up 9 per cent year-on-year
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End Treasury meddling and restructure UKRI, say Blair and Hague
Former leaders call for science and technology delivery unit to end Whitehall ‘micromanagement’ of research funding and for ‘bespoke’ research councils
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Backing for union’s ‘middle way’ on strikes as pay ‘crunch’ nears
Union may have united membership again but 18 days of strikes could lead to support ‘withering away’, commentators suggest
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DSIT creation brings fear over ‘political direction’ of research
Michelle Donelan will have to stop ‘fighting culture wars’ and try to ‘make stuff happen on the ground’, says professor
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Salford targets ‘golden triangle’ of jobs, skills, infrastructure
University’s Institute of Technology and proposed innovation district aim to make benefits stick in one of England’s most deprived areas
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Michelle Donelan to lead new science department in UK government
Prime minister shakes up structures within government as well as ministerial team
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Curtailing internationalisation would damage the UK’s global ambitions
Limiting international student numbers or cutting post-study work eligibility is not the way to become a science superpower, says Max Lu