Dame Ottoline Leyser to head UKRI
The Sainsbury Laboratory director will oversee a huge increase in R&D spending as head of UK’s main research funder
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The week in higher education – 14 May 2020
The academy through the lens of the world’s media
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14 May 2020 digital edition
To thrive, not just survive: Is the coronavirus crisis a chance to radically remake higher education?
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The Flip: Who You Really Are and Why It Matters, by Jeffrey Kripal
Michael Marinetto enjoys a bold attempt to challenge the scientific consensus about consciousness
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“双一流”建设的国际化视野
何莲珍认为，高水平国际化有助于提高中国高校的国际竞争力和话语权
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More student enrolments bankrolled in New Zealand budget
Some succour for NZ universities and students in budget aiming to support training for those who have lost jobs in crisis
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Are ‘European universities’ really possible?
A 2017 speech by Emmanuel Macron on European identity has led to the creation of an initial 17 pan-continental consortia involving 114 universities. But do they amount to anything more than yet more...
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Is this the crisis higher education needs to have?
The Covid-19 pandemic offers universities a once-in-a-generation opportunity to put their dysfunctional strategies behind them, argue Timothy Devinney and Grahame Dowling
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Will Covid-19 change universities forever? Don’t jump to conclusions
Tomorrow’s world often turns out to be less radically different than we might have first thought, says Bruce Macfarlane
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University networks will struggle to revive European identity
Protecting the European research budget offers better long-term hopes of saving the European project
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King's College London sees biggest cash drop in teaching grant
England's OfS reveals how next year's £48 million teaching grant cut will be spread across institutions
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Charitable giving to UK and Irish universities hits record £1.3bn
Record year for university philanthropy in UK and Ireland sees Oxford and Cambridge dominate fundraising
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Coronavirus speeds journals’ shift towards open access
Scientists fighting for more publicly available research say changes made during Covid-19 crisis have influenced their efforts
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Job-saving plan stonewalled on two fronts at Sydney
Redundancies beckon at Australia’s oldest university as bosses and workers alike hold the line
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US health experts offer only limited hope for autumn teaching
Anticipating a renewed coronavirus outbreak, California State University plans for semester online