India’s passage might not be simple, but it can climb to elite tier
The country’s ambitious goals for its universities can’t be hit quickly or cheaply, says Philip Altbach, but they can be achieved
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Taking offence: a new pandemic?
From Rhodes’ statue to radical speakers, the young and old understand, and cope with, offence differently, argues Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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More needed than tinkering
John Jerrim’s argument that free university tuition is in effect a subsidy for the rich is quite correct, although it was only one among a raft of such subsidies (“Free university tuition ‘could lead...
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No silver bullet
The question of whether the fall in UK undergraduate applicants spells trouble for universities also needs to be asked at postgraduate level (“End of boom time for universities?”, 5 February). The...
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How to help Jordan
There has been much debate about how to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Syria and beyond. That debate has also taken place at the University of Bath over the past few months, with calls for the...
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Tertiary study’s impact on views of the political process
This graphic shows to what extent tertiary education increases people’s sense that they have a say in politics
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Internationalisation 2.0: scaling up to meet the challenges
Universities are finding that feeding the growing worldwide hunger to learn requires an international team effort
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Elite universities ‘going backwards’ on widening access
Figures suggest Oxford and Cambridge among seven Russell Group institutions with lower proportion of poorer students compared with 10 years ago