Brazil’s vision for science is strangling the humanities
More investment in gaining skills like critical thinking and problem solving would help the country combat social inequalities, says Sarah O’Sullivan
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It’s time the UK starts talking about graduate outcomes for international students
To meet the country’s ambitious student recruitment targets, UK institutions should make better use of data showing the return on investment of their degrees, writes Louise Nicol
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UK campus will teach China to open education to world, says dean
Wen Hai, head of Peking University HSBC Business School’s Oxford outpost, says venture will help foster collaboration between Britain and China
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A networked university is a truly global one
Large-scale, transdisciplinary networks of universities represent the next phase of internationalisation, says Patrick Prendergast
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Cambridge’s Trinity faces union boycott after confirming USS exit
Academics may be asked not to apply for jobs, give lectures or conduct external examining at Trinity
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Educational charities must behave charitably
It is not enough for UK universities with charitable status merely to conduct teaching and research, say Nicola Dandridge and Helen Stephenson
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Frontload training in first postdoctoral post, says research head
Liverpool pro vice-chancellor says new positions would be step between PhDs and traditional postdoctoral posts
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The climate emergency and the new civic role for the university
As we face a climate emergency, universities must undergo radical change to lead the way in tackling the crisis, Paul Chatterton writes
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Big-name business schools ‘give students less teaching time’
Vast resources channelled into research, analysis of business schools finds
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Reading halves Malaysia workforce after multimillion-pound losses
University cuts courses but will become first foreign institution to offer law degree in country
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Publishers fail to stem tide of illicit ResearchGate uploads
Berlin-based academic network faces court action in US and Germany, and lost more than €12 million (£10.7 million) in 2017, accounts show
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A ‘graduate school’ should award its own degrees
The Advertising Standards Authority is wrong to permit to any provider of training to graduates to declare itself a “graduate school”, says Viv Ellis
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The Value of Ecocriticism, by Timothy Clark
Book of the week: Leo Mellor assesses a bold attempt to make the case for literature and criticism in the light of environmental disaster
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Why Cities Look the Way They Do, by Richard J. Williams
Flora Samuel welcomes an irreverent analysis of today’s cities