The week in higher education – 9 November 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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‘Teach medical students about role of doctors in Nazi atrocities’
Lancet report says learning about medics’ role in the Holocaust could help students develop their own moral reasoning
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Russell Group wants £4 billion hike in UK research spend by 2030
Westminster government must match ambitious rhetoric with increased investment to keep pace with competition, says mission group’s manifesto
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Call the midwife to deliver students from a dark place on climate
Studying high art is still important, but popular culture can give humanities undergraduates better pointers on how to convert their refined understandings into practical action, rather than...
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English HE won’t get something for nothing from Labour
With helping students and graduates the likely priority, universities will have to make concessions for a share of any spare cash, says Jonathan Simons
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Interview with Michael Muthukrishna
Economic psychology professor discusses his first book, A Theory of Everyone, lessons learnt from a peripatetic childhood and how a need to ‘manage risks’ as an undergraduate inspired his...
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Boston clears Kendi on finances but management probes continue
Centre for Antiracist Research doesn’t have obvious funding flaws, but celebrity activist still leaves university questioning its Floyd-era hiring coup
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Johnson: King’s Speech degrees line a ‘culture wars dog whistle’
Former minister wary of ‘policy that would throw the engines of social mobility in higher education into reverse’
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UUK chief: minister’s funding rebuff ‘not end of conversation’
Sally Mapstone on why university funding problems are too urgent for ‘something more radical’ or a review – and what she really thinks about corduroy
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Marijuana scandals test Japanese university leaders
Institutions struggle to navigate clash of reality of student drug use with conservative culture
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‘Shockingly low’ ESRC success rates raise social sciences alarm
Scale of unsuccessful funding bids will be ‘dispiriting’ for researchers and raises questions about ‘substantial differences’ in research landscape, Oxford professor warns
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Sacked professor plans defence union for whistleblower academics
Brain researcher’s clash with University of Sydney administration follows exit from Imperial in earlier whistleblower row
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Call to fund degrees via ‘advance’ on future student earnings
Graduates would pay higher contributions over shorter time to make system ‘self-funding’ and solve funding crisis in proposal from dataHE co-founder
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Focus on employability as AI takes graduate roles, says report
Technology’s disruption of traditional career paths should push universities into focusing on ‘human skills’ students need to succeed, say Demos and University of London
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Teaching at AI-focused university adapts as advances are made
Classes at world’s first postgraduate AI institution can pivot mid-course to explore breakthroughs, says MBZUAI acting provost