Heavy lies the crown
The array of challenges facing universities and their leaders is daunting, with a聽broken funding system underpinning the pain in聽England
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24 November 2022 digital edition
Amid rising global tensions, is time running out for internationalisation?
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鈥楽hifting value proposition鈥 underpins rise in contract cheating
鈥楻enaissance鈥 ideals of integrity may mean little to the sharing economy generation, Australian conference hears
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Accord must loosen regulatory grip on university model 鈥 Davis
Australian public service chief rails against scale in call for 鈥渁lternatives鈥 to huge comprehensive institutions
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Ucas personal statement 鈥榗ontributes to access inequalities鈥
Hepi report says聽long, free-form format is 鈥榠ncompatible鈥 with fair admissions聽code and calls for switch to short-response questions
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PhD students prefer in-person supervision, but online persists
Postgraduate researchers respond positively to online-offline support packages but purely online contact is less valued, finds Advance HE survey
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Stop locking down campuses 鈥榗asually鈥, Chinese universities told
Authorities to inspect institutions 鈥榦ne by one鈥 amid concern institutions are being overzealous in their application of Covid-19 restrictions
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Overseas researchers in limbo over UK security clearance delays
Incoming staff and students risk losing jobs and funding over delayed checks in 鈥榮ensitive鈥 fields
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The week in higher education 鈥 24 November 2022
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media
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Russian pseudoscience has fuelled the bloodshed in Ukraine
Failure to expel crackpot social scientists from Russia鈥檚 academy has allowed dangerous dogma to dominate public discourse, says Andreas Umland
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Interview with Sir Lawrence Freedman
The war studies professor on聽Ukraine, writing speeches for Tony Blair and late career fame on Substack
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How can MENA universities boost their students鈥 employability?
Ramping up聽vocational training and industry engagement will be crucial to meeting the skills needs of the fourth industrial revolution, says Sabrina Joseph
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Academic freedom is not freedom of speech for academics
The UK鈥檚 Higher Education Bill could become a new global reference on academic freedom聽鈥撀爄f only it can get the definition right, say聽Liviu Matei and聽Shitij Kapur
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Students skip lectures as cost-of-living crisis mounts
Office for National Statistics survey shows students are also considering pausing their studies or switching to remote learning
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Restricting UK post-study visas 鈥榳ould be catastrophic mistake鈥
Chris Skidmore urges universities to demonstrate how international students cross-subsidise course places for domestic classmates