The week in higher education – 26 October 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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26 October 2023 digital edition
Wheel of fortune: Can Hong Kong remain a global higher education hub?
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‘New ideas’ needed to tackle student housing shortage
Smaller rooms, repurposed golf courses, refurbished government buildings among the suggestions to tackle the ‘wicked problem’ of accommodating students in Australia
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World University Rankings 2024 by subject: results announced
Subject rankings are diversifying, with more representation outside the US and UK, but old elite still take top places
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World University Rankings 2024 by subject: table information
Browse the full results of the World University Rankings by subject The data shown under key statistics are those provided by the university itself in its submission to the Times Higher Education ...
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US enrolment picks up but first-year numbers drop
Nation’s campuses see overall undergraduate enrolment gain for first time since Covid, only to lose new four-year entrants
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Average student rents now eat up all of maintenance loan – survey
Average rents across UK up 14.6 per cent in just two years, study of 10 cities finds, with Bristol, Exeter and Nottingham most expensive
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Israeli academics look abroad as they brace for long haul
With funding and productivity likely to dip as war takes priority, Israeli universities say preserving international links will be vital
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Universities must ‘break norms’ to combat cheating
A convincing veneer of academic integrity can help bring about the real thing, finds literature review
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Early Ucas applications fall for second successive year
Experts say early indications show demand for higher education remains subdued, but many would have been ‘fearing worse’
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Interview with Kabir Sheikh
Health researcher on bridging the policy-academia divide and navigating global health politics
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Create PhD databases to flush out fraudsters, universities told
Lack of publicly available data on doctoral degree holders is allowing people to add fake credentials to their resumés, says research fraud expert
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Investigating serious abuses must be taken out of universities’ hands
Reporting misconduct to an external ombudsman would circumvent managers’ tendency to cover up, says Wyn Evans
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Can Hong Kong remain a global higher education hub?
The special administrative region’s status as an international crossroads has been severely shaken by the National Security Law and stringent Covid lockdowns. But sector leaders remain buoyant about...
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Hong Kong doubles limit on non-local undergraduates
Academics welcome the move, but some are concerned over displacement of island’s students from its top institutions