A-level grade inflation ‘could destabilise admissions again’
Experts praise decision to remove controversial algorithm but warn better than expected scores could put pressure on sector
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Transnational education will resist the post-pandemic recruitment crunch
A global recession will accelerate the latest shift away from high-cost study destinations, say Janet Ilieva and David Pilsbury
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Paul Alivisatos named as next University of Chicago president
Berkeley provost must overcome financial challenges back at his alma mater
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Covid’s drain on US academic science starts raising alarm
Toll on younger scientists highlights lack of research-specific pandemic aid
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Australia tells universities to focus on commercialising research
Government encourages shift away from reliance on international student revenue, but expert questions whether this is possible
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France’s elite universities face campus sexual assault reckoning
Campaigners say tight-knit elitism, boozy initiation weeks and a lacklustre administrative response have led to a culture of silence in grandes écoles
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Global metrics experts attack Liverpool redundancy criteria
Authors of Leiden Manifesto and Hong Kong principles say plans to use grant income and citation scores to make redundancies is threat to responsible use of metrics around globe
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Demographic dive leaves South Korea struggling to fill campuses
Most universities yet to meet enrolment quotas for new academic year, raising concerns about institutional viability
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We must stop letting online teaching be cast as the ‘poor relation’
Many students have not had their expectations met, but it’s unhelpful to assume this is a systemic online teaching and learning issue, says Linda Kaye
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Marketers should oversee the student experience to graduation and beyond
Why shouldn’t marketing staff have ongoing input into the brand perception they work so hard to cultivate among prospects, asks Victoria O’Malley
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UK universities’ digital teaching must be far more imaginative
Sir Michael Barber’s blueprint can help digital delivery enhance learning rather than acting as an inconvenient stopgap, says David Puttnam
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Williamson: ‘dead-end’ degrees give students ‘nothing but debt’
UK education secretary says three-year undergraduate programme ‘should never be the default’
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Women rarely among highest paid at elite US universities
Non-white women just 2.5 per cent of top earners on most research-intensive campuses
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Times Higher Education rankings: updated 2021 schedule
Subject rankings will be launched throughout the autumn
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Is Free Speech Racist?
, by Gavan Titley
Martin Myers applauds a bold attempt to re-examine one of the sacred cows of liberal societies