The week in higher education – 17 March 2022
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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India set to overtake China as UK’s main overseas student source
Former minister who has called for focus on India warns sector not to create new ‘over-reliance’
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In US and France, two uniquely similar professors
Two genetics experts with series of shared attributes enjoy collaborating, but suspect coincidences not bloodlines
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Interview with Faezeh Marzbanrad
Biomedical engineer talks about problem-solving, the importance of monitoring foetal cardiac health and why no one has got it quite right on STEM education for women
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Time to end ex-polytechnics’ second-class status, says Ken Clarke
Tory former minister who abolished binary divide says hierarchy should be on ‘educational quality’ only – and sector ‘still not properly accountable’
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English regulator launches review of blended learning standards
Universities will be told what approaches to online education fail to meet Office for Students' requirements as government pushes for return to face-to-face education
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Are the UK’s former polytechnics the solution to levelling up?
Three decades after the abolition of the binary divide between universities and polytechnics, some commentators still lament the supposed loss of locally focused vocational education. But even as the...
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Should I be worried about where my cybersecurity students will end up?
Teaching students to hack is necessary to show them how to defend against it – but we need to do more to instil ethics, says Andy Farnell Â
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17 March 2022 digital edition
Levelling up: thirty years on, has the post-92s’ time come?
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Japan University Rankings 2022: methodology
Our Japan rankings are constructed on four pillars that demonstrate the broad strength of a university
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Introducing our new World University Rankings advisory board
We have appointed nine board members across four continents to improve transparency and help us further develop the league table, says Duncan Ross
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Pandemic ‘made some students keener to study abroad’
Universities should avoid rushed assumptions about Covid’s financial impacts and its effects on study plans, survey suggests
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Ethnic minority experts excluded from peer review in UK, MPs told
Science committee hears evidence of ‘shocking’ levels of under-representation of ethnic minority experts at research council meetings
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Digital Universities UK: preserve best bits as academia moves online, urges Grayling
Philosopher A. C. Grayling says scholars should not fight digitisation but should seek to protect academic freedom and avoid the creation of a gig economy
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Stop ‘micromanaging’ researchers, urges Australian award winner
Grant reviewers should close the circle by evaluating final reports, and recipients should spend the money as they see fit