New strike ballot at Queen Mary over ‘brutal’ pay deductions
University refuses to pay staff who have returned to work until they reschedule lectures lost to last round of walkouts
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Two in five live under ‘significant decline’ in academic freedom
Global index links downward trend over the past decade to accelerating and deepening decline in democracy
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How America’s broken undergraduate education system can be fixed
Obsessed with graduate employment, US universities are doing little to improve students’ ability to think independently, a major new study has concluded. Paul Basken speaks to the Harvard academics...
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Conflict on many fronts
After a four-year wait, views vary on whether the government’s Augar response can usher in a truce on university funding in England
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Record number of world’s top universities led by women
Share of female vice-chancellors at high-ranking institutions surpasses 20 per cent for first time based on É«ºÐÖ±²¥Â World University Rankings dataÂ
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Western Australia reopens to international students
Returning numbers underwhelming so far as isolated state casts off its shackles
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Interview with Liviu Matei
The higher education professor discusses totalitarian Romania, his academic inspirations and a fascination with folk music
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Zero-tolerance campus drug policies ‘do more harm than good’
‘We are not excusing illegal behaviour, but we are acknowledging that it happens and appears widespread’, says Hepi paper advocating harm reduction approach
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Academia’s out and proud publish more
Academics who did not disclose sexual orientation more likely to produce fewer papers, according to surveys
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The week in higher education – 3 March 2022
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Academia uncoupled as isolated Russia moves into China bloc
But one expert suggests closer ties with Beijing may not be as straightforward as Kremlin thinks
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My worst teaching moment – and what it taught me
All academics have had that anxiety dream about standing up to give a lecture, only to realise they have forgotten to prepare anything – or to put on any clothes. But real teaching failures are...
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Augar response makes balanced tweaks to England’s funding system
Frozen fee levels must rise eventually, but universities need to deliver efficiency gains through hybrid learning, says David Willetts
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3 March 2022 digital edition
Epic fails:Â what academics have learned from their biggest teaching disasters
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The government is using inflation to take back control of English HE
The Augar response highlights ministers’ hopes that rising costs will make certain courses economically unviable, says Alexis Brown