Activism is a legitimate and necessary form of scholarship
The world’s problems are too big for one sector to figure out: academics must team up with doers in fair, equal partnerships, says Carmen Geha
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Strip curricula of ‘YouTube knowledge’, business schools told
Business education should engage more with contemporary realities, which means abandoning things that can be learned for free elsewhere, according to Lord Hastings
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Canada scraps interest on federal student loans
Permanent expansion of Covid-era waiver on interest payments cheered by student activists but lamented by conservatives as wasteful and by progressives as missed opportunity
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Scale of gender-based violence on European campuses ‘terrifying’
First results of landmark survey of 42,186 employees and students released
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Australia charts path to pre-pandemic online teaching rules
While remote delivery remains popular with many international students, authorities hose down prospects of fully online degrees
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Professors say decolonisation agenda ‘politicising’ maths degrees
New subject guidance mandates ‘narrowly skewed perspective on the history of mathematics’, leading academics claim
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UK needs ‘clear vision’ on overseas recruitment, says Skidmore
International students are ‘part of the solution, and not the problem’, says ex-minister on launch of new commission
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Universities cream off cash as UK business school income rebounds
A sunny outlook on student enrolments is marred by the persistent lack of money for research in the field, says association chair
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Managers must recognise that the working week is finite
Even if conditions are not right for the development of a ‘slow university’, we need at least to walk in that direction, says David Alexander
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V-c’s funding plea ‘shows funding struggle’ at Indian universities
While India’s prestigious IITs flex fundraising muscle, others in sector are ‘left in the lurch’
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Radical transparency can fix bad behaviour by academic journals
Revealing desk rejection rates, peer review processing times and other useful operational data would do more to correct slipshod journal practices than an ‘author’s bill of rights’, says Jerry Jacobs
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Bolsonaro’s defeat ‘ends Brazil’s pariah status’ in science
Populist right-wing leader leaves office with public universities facing bankruptcy and country polarised
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The ‘growth, growth, growth’ model is bad for students and communities
The student accommodation crisis seen in many UK cities highlights the need for a more strategic and sustainable approach to town-gown issues, says Neal Juster
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Australian income help ‘far too low’ for few students who get it
Student union demands overhaul as post-Covid cost pressures exacerbate student poverty
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What does Xi Jinping’s third term mean for Chinese science?
Concerns over more rigid control of universities and fear of isolationist thinking causing ‘intellectual impoverishment’ for East and West