Executive search firms blamed for shrinking presidential tenures
Once rare, now commonplace, use of private companies to hire new presidents coming at large cost to US universities, research team finds
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Ministers ‘might as well bite bullet’ on retrospective loan hike
Key details on scope of English student loan changes yet to be finalised as consultation looms
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Concern over Oxbridge dominance at UK’s oldest law journal
Scholar criticises lack of anonymised peer review at Law Quarterly Review
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Talking leadership 3: Minouche Shafik on embedding sustainability
The LSE director on the institution’s green strategy, the importance of social scientists working with industry and the advantages of being ‘different’
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Turbocharging belonging will win the recruitment race for campuses
A group of undergraduates who got together to build a racing car taught Nic Smith how much horsepower there is in community
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Australian open access push goes from green to gold
While progress has been hamstrung by lack of scale or regulatory force, advocates say the time has come
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Books interview: Christina Riggs
The author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century on finding girls and women in history, archaeology’s ‘heroic’ age and the cultural impact of ‘Egyptomania’
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Australia drops preapproval requirement for overseas students
While Canberra’s decision is ‘great news’, students still face competition for flights and a mishmash of state rules
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Japan seeks to ‘change attitudes’ on industry-funded courses
 ¥30 million fund a start towards bridging the divide between sectors, researchers say
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Academics back creation of pan-Irish higher education area
Greater cross-border collaboration key to peace and prosperity, says learned society
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Get us out of Afghanistan, plead British Council researchers
Letter from 22 academics warns of ‘life-threatening circumstances’
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Progress on gender equality ‘set back by lost generation’
Study finds that post-war baby boom probably led to scores of women being lost to American scienceÂ
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Master’s degrees should be interdisciplinary
Both industry and academia in New Zealand need people who can look past traditional subject boundaries, says Catherine Whitby
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‘Reclaim the meaning of the liberal arts’, universities urged
Breadth of study and ‘authentic learning communities’ can transform many different dimensions of graduates’ lives
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Academic decorum should not enforce silence about religious belief
Inviting people to share their full selves on campus promotes mental health, diversity and intellectual stimulation, says Kyle Sebastian Vitale