Here’s how long UK university leaders stay in post
Is the average term of office for UK university vice-chancellors getting shorter? Nick Hillman and Tom Huxley find out
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Independent study more useful than contact hours, study suggests
UK Engagement Survey finds undergraduates develop skills better out of – rather than in – the classroom
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Degree courses ‘need adapting for commuter students’
Assessment, timetables and module weighting could be altered to reduce pressures for students who travel a long way to university each day, says study author
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Columbia University global centres aim to prove university’s ‘relevance’
Universities must adopt global, rather than international, outlooks, says scholar
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Interview with Stephen Buckman
We talk blue-sky thinking, academic mobility and not ‘sweating the small stuff’ with the new Australian Research Council funding director
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Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka: ‘I wanted to smash bust of Churchill’
The university professor and former political prisoner compares his own iconoclastic impulses to Rhodes Must Fall movement
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The rise of European university networks
University leaders from across the Continent explain why collaboration is more important than ever as a new mission group forms in Amsterdam
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Katharine Perera, 1943-2016
An expert on children’s reading who was closely involved in the merger that created the University of Manchester has died
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10 questions to answer before launching a transnational HE venture
Kevin Dunseath and Chris Hall on the issues that anyone considering setting up a programme abroad should think through before committing significant funds
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Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist’s Ethical Journey, by John P. Gluck
Book of the week: A memoir wrestles with moral questions about using animals in research. Kristin Andrews writes
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What are you reading? – 3 November 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future, by Sheila Jasanoff
A clear-eyed study of shiny and new inventions calls for better oversight, says Richard Joyner
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Health Divides: Where You Live Can Kill You, by Clare Bambra
Marcus Chown on a deeply political study that explains why inequality exists and that while ending it will not be easy, it is not impossible
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Brexit prompts Ireland to attract ‘world-leading’ researchers
Government in Dublin plans funding to entice academics in light of Brexit, while joint appointments with UK also floated as option