Bleak budget beckons for universities in New Zealand
While new prime minister has nominated science and skills as budget priorities, sector fears any investment will fall short of inflation
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Turkish higher education ‘needs deep reform’ post-election
As voting finishes in divisive poll, scholars say two decades of government under ErdoÄŸan has left universities in a perilous state
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If we’re going to vanquish climate change, the time to charge is now
If academics are serious about tackling global warming, they can’t wait for the cavalry to show up – they are the cavalry, says Tony Chan
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In Germany, university leaders from the east are still a rarity
Progress is being made on promoting women to top positions, but very few presidents hail from the former Communist bloc
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Gutting the humanities imperils democracy and human rights
Decline is not inevitable: there is plenty that university leaders can do to shore up students’ interest in these crucial subjects, says Kathryn Shailer
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Academics, meet your new research partners: tourists
With cash, equipment and time on their hands, holidaymakers can add scale to citizen science projects, review finds
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Supporting student entrepreneurship could also boost lecture attendance
Self-employment teaches valuable skills and offers more flexibility to fit work around academic and domestic demands, says Robert Phillips
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USS warns members’ data may have been stolen by Capita hackers
Outsourcing firm used by UK’s largest academic pensions scheme targeted in cyberattack
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Animal rights petition ‘existential threat’ for EU research
Groups gather more than a million signatures to ‘modernise science’ by phasing out animal research, forcing commission to respond
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English voters quizzed on tuition fee preferences
Poll will provide first constituency-by-constituency breakdown of how voters see issue of higher education funding
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Gambling threat ‘rising on US campuses’
As dozens of student-athletes come under investigation, expert predicts major harms on campus from national embrace of sports betting
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Why aren’t we acting on the evidence of what works for gender equality?
Abundant myths and historical stereotypes are sustaining the harmful notion that girls just don’t like mathematical subjects, says Athene Donald
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Can Hong Kong’s HK$10m drive diversify its student pool past China?
Vietnam and Malaysia among more ‘promising’ countries targeted, but city seen as likely to struggle to draw students from further afield
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Interview with Paterson Joseph
New chancellor of Oxford Brookes University on overcoming racism at school, ‘tedious’ drama school politics and ‘nonsense’ claims of ‘wokery’ over decolonisation of curricula
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Lifelong loans: traditional degrees ‘elephant in the room’ in debate
Costly residential degrees will eat up LLE funding, leaving ‘difficult choices about how to divide up the cake’, warns OU v-c in Hepi paper