Interview with Monica Ali
The acclaimed novelist and distinguished writer-in-residence at the University of Surrey talks about teaching, researching her novels and why she skipped all her lectures
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Andy Furlong, 1956-2017
An internationally renowned sociologist of youth has died
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Will Trump’s election see more US students and scholars head to Canada?
Living next to the US is like sleeping with an elephant. But will the election of a divisive president see more Americans pack their trunks and trump, trump, trump up to Canada? asks Glen Jones
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Campus Capital fund seeks to ape US start-up success
Venture capital fund aims to give students experience of investing
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‘French brain drain worse than imagined’
Lack of opportunities and local hiring practices have stopped many French scientists from returning to their homeland, a new study says
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Left-leaning academics are sexier, study suggests
While right-wing politicians have been found to be more attractive than left-wing politicians, this trend may not hold true in the world of scholarship
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THE Teaching Survey 2017: results and analysis
Academics enjoy teaching. What they don’t like is the lack of preparation time, bureaucratic burdens, unprepared students – and the TEF. Jack Grove reports
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Can France win back émigré scholars?
Thousands of France’s most educated minds are now based abroad – luring them back could be a boon for its ambitious plans for higher education, Jack Grove writes
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The week in higher education – 16 February 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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HE bill: why universities are not supermarkets
Commentator Martin Wolf examines the economic flaws and false assumptions of the Higher Education and Research Bill
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Global higher education might turn upside down as West turns inward
Philip G. Altbach and Hans de Wit consider what forms internationalisation may take as the US and Europe retreat from world stage
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It’s vital for science that we cache US federal agency facts
Rebecca Lave describes the campaign to preserve crucial environmental data under threat from the Trump administration
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Teachers like the work but not the workplace
Teaching is being looked at seriously by the government, but those providing still feel overlooked and underappreciated
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Universities: building understanding as hate speech proliferates
Higher education has an important role in healing divides based on the distortion of religious beliefs, say Sami Everett and Ed Kessler
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Free up academics to solve UK higher education problems
Toby Miller on the lessons that other countries could teach universities in the UK