Threatened scholars: online harassment risks academic freedom
Rebekah Tromble and Patricia Rossini feared for their safety when the conservative online world turned against them last summer
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The week in higher education – 14 February 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Providers urged to set targets for enrolling white working class
White students from lower participation neighbourhoods account for fewer than one in 10 students at more than 70 per cent of English universities, report says
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The West must focus on the challenges of China’s research rise
Fixating on how research misconduct might impact the figures could distract the scholarly world from bigger questions about the future direction and conduct of science, explains Simon Baker
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Leadership intelligence: what to expect from your first awayday
Robert MacIntosh offers managers some hints on how to succeed at their university strategy day
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Universities must ensure that all students acquire ICT skills
Evidence from Canada highlights the scale of the challenge in preparing 21st-century workers and citizens, say Ross Finnie, Arthur Sweetman and Richard Mueller
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The diploma disease is becoming a pandemic
The credentialism that the late Ron Dore analysed in his seminal 1976 book has gone global, say Keith Lewin, Angela Little and Alison Wolf
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The intellectual dark web can teach academia to fly
Whatever you think of the likes of Jordan Peterson, their use of alternative media to reach huge audiences offers many lessons, says Michael Marinetto
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To improve teaching, give academics a better deal
Using the teaching excellence framework to drive up teaching standards is fundamentally misconceived, says Matt Waddup
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Teaching evaluations ‘mirror students’ gender and culture’
Gradings influenced more by sex and ethnicity than teachers’ experience
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Scholar packs a punch in the wrestling ring as ‘Mr Canada’
Liberal arts professor Dan Mathewson uses his wrestling alter ego to explore the politics of the working-class American South
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Is anti-humanities rhetoric to blame for slower PhD growth?
Data from the UK, US and Australia suggest science doctorates continue to dominate expansion, but why?
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Augar review caught in tussle over timing and Treasury control
Treasury wants longer delay to England’s post-18 review so it is ‘part of’ spending review, but earlier publication could give sector more say