Rediscovering the common good in higher education
Look to Canada and northern Europe for lessons on reducing inequality, says Simon Marginson
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Discipline tardy journal editors, say scholars
Editors of journals should face ‘negligence’ investigations over extensive delays, suggests a new paper
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Teaching history of Palestinian conflict benefits from new tool
Website provides vital documentation for studying Palestinian political history and its place within wider anti-colonial struggles
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Trump's Berkeley threat spotlights future battles
President’s tweet was ‘overreach’, say critics, but scientists fear existential threat from new administration
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England's universities urged to work more closely with schools
But new Offa guidance appears to stop short of mandating universities to sponsor them
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Vietnam sets new PhD requirements
Ministry hopes to increase quality of doctorates
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Trump ban: students and staff travel again after legal block
Case that has stopped enforcement of president's order cited impact on higher education
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UKRI job advert: conspiracy or cock-up?
Dame Athene Donald on how the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy had to reissue a job advert for UKRI board members
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Government ‘starts process’ on English student loans sale
Move aimed at reducing national debt is ‘economic illiteracy’, warns NUS
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Pressure to publish in India drives junk journal boom
Poor monitoring in ‘second-tier’ institutions is also part of the problem, research indicates
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Academics must act as diplomats, says vice-chancellor
University of East Anglia chief says scholars cannot assume that their research findings are ‘self-evident’
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I am the scholar caught in Trump inauguration crowd controversy
Crowd scientist Keith Still on his time providing live analysis on Donald Trump’s inauguration – and the ensuing media storm
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Global citizenship in HE a ‘loaded’ and ‘patronising’ concept
Researchers in South Africa say focus instead on developing ‘globally competent graduates’