Another journal rejection? Put on your helmet
Knock-backs are frequent and unavoidable. But treating referees’ comments with a hard-headed pragmatism lessens the sting, says Adrian Furnham
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Australian international education ‘in doldrums until 2023’
Industry operatives’ worst fears could cost universities thousands of staff and country tens of billions of dollars
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Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen, by Carol Dyhouse
Emma Rees enjoys a vivid if familiar exploration of changing attitudes to romance
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International postgraduate enrolment in US universities plummets
Concern tempered by applications and deferrals suggesting post-Covid recovery
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Just imagine the possibilities
Academia jettisoned decades of orthodoxy about how to teach and research overnight when the pandemic hit. What’s stopping it making other transformations?
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Mariana Mazzucato: ‘I was sick of just being told: “You make me happy”’
After her first book, The Entrepreneurial State, catapulted her into the academic stratosphere, the UCL economist has paused her audiences with senior politicians to write a follow-up that uses the...
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The week in higher education – 18 February 2021
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Online learning not a green panacea, researchers warn
Estimate of emissions generated by staff and students during lockdown virtually the same as campus commuting
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Interview with Neil Brand
The BBC presenter and composer explains why students need music more than ever and how his drama school training influences his music
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Alexander Forrester, 1935-2021
Tributes paid to a pioneer in the commercialisation of academic research notable for his ‘ferocious work ethic’
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The shift online gives new significance to the pen v laptop debate
My research inspired laptop bans in classrooms around the world, but we need nuance in our thinking about using technology, says Danny Oppenheimer
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US universities want Biden to strike new funding pact with states
While president eyes fees-based relief for students, campuses emphasise need to revive traditional means of support
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India’s Amity ‘open to talks’ on ‘takeover’ of English university
Foreign investment or buyout touted as potential route out of financial woe for institutions, while others see ‘multi-university groups’ as more viable
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EU applications to UK universities plummet by 40 per cent
Despite drop in interest from European Union, overall applications to UK universities by January deadline rose this year
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Moving mountains: the reforms that would push academia to new heights
Until the pandemic forced teaching to go online almost overnight, universities were widely considered impervious to major change. But if one age-old practice can be flipped on its head, why not...