Review finds 'no evidence' of student overstaying problem in UK
New analysis of border check data suggest vast majority of international students leave country or stay legally after finishing courses
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Singapore’s fling with global stars sidelines local talent
Singaporeans are starting to question the benefit of recruiting so much global research talent, say Pang Eng Fong and Linda Lim
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Interview with Sir Alan Wilson
The chief executive of the Alan Turing Institute discusses his career in higher education, making the case for the humanities, and the nascence of the Russell Group
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S. Allen Counter, 1944-2017
A neuroscientist and explorer who became ‘a great champion of inclusion and belonging’ has died
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India shelves branch campus ‘pipe dream’ for domestic ‘eminence’
Foreign providers plan was misguided, but domestic selective funding option brings huge challenges, say experts
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DfE approves UK university sales, but regulator’s advice kept secret
Ministers back University of Law, Arden sales to Netherlands-registered GUS, as BPP decision awaited
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The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity, by Johanna Hanink
Do ancient cultural ideas drive the insistence that Greece pay all its bills in full? asks Emma Gee
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Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane, by James Delbourgo
James Stevens Curl on a tome that emphasises the physician/naturalist’s role in transforming cabinets of curiosities into major institutions of the Enlightenment
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Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial, by Stuart Blume
Free market ideology has contributed to ‘vaccine hesitancy’, endangering us all, says Harry Collins
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The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture, by Heike Bauer
A study of one of Europe’s leading thinkers on sexuality contends that brutality is a force behind much queer activism and political thinking
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The week in higher education – 24 August 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Bath governance under scrutiny on senior pay
Remuneration committee member formerly led construction company that won £64 million in contracts from university
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UK government commissions ‘detailed study’ on overseas students
Announcement comes as new exit check data expected to show low numbers of student ‘overstayers’
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There is an alternative to high-cost v-cs
Don’t blame vice-chancellors for their salaries – we need to rethink where power lies in universities, says Tom Cutterham
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Do we need a Hippocratic oath for academics?
It is time to consider how we can stop senior academics bullying their way on to research papers, says Trisha Greenhalgh