UK re-establishes dominance in ERC advanced grants scheme
Academics at British institutions make one in four successful bids in 2017 funding round, underlining risks of Brexit
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Cut bureaucracy to create time for third mission, says EUA head
‘If we want to do more things for society, we can’t do it by working more than 60 or 70 hours a week,’ Rolf Tarrach tells annual conference
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Gender pay gap: how much less are women paid at your university?
Mean average pay gap across UK sector stands at 15.9 per cent, with 30 institutions reporting gaps in excess of 20 per cent
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Cost of university study in Australia ‘to soar’ over next decade
Rising cost of living set to push price tag attached to getting a medical degree up to as much as A$327,000 (£179,000), study suggests
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Smartest in class: male students ‘overestimate’ intelligence
It smacks of affirmations like ‘if you believe it, you can achieve it’, but men’s academic swagger has a dark side
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Open University staff call for vice-chancellor’s resignation
Union members call for removal of threat of hundreds of redundancies and ask for consultation on possible industrial action
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‘Terrorist’ students must be expelled, says Turkey’s president
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan targets students who took part in an anti-war protest at an Istanbul university
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Plan to offer university-level education to Jamaican prisoners
Talks scheduled to advance expansion of the US Prison-to-College Pipeline project
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Professor suspended ‘for defaming Bangladeshi PM’s father’
Marketing professor accused of ‘distorting liberation war history’ and defaming ex-president in newspaper article
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Colombia hopes peace can attract postgraduates
Peace process gives new impetus to nation’s efforts to promote itself as academic destination
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Managing the Wild: Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests, by Charles M. Peters
Excluding local people from conservation is not the way to preserve vital vegetation, as it is they whose practices produce the ecologies we value, finds Steven Yearley
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New and noteworthy – 5 April 2018
The case against men (16th-century-style); going to El Norte, and staying behind; glorying in Gorey; and saving Venice
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The week in higher education – 5 April 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media