Women: long the majority in UK HE and FE
I read with interest your feature on the ever-increasing number of women in higher education worldwide (“Why is Martha doing better than Arthur?â€, 10 May), but it missed an important point. At least...
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No diatribe
In his letter “End ideologues’ reign over imperial history†(3 May), Zareer Masani accuses us of “character assassinationâ€. To use his words, we take strong exception to this unsubstantiated...
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Electoral oversights
In their book How Democracies Die: What History Tells Us about Our Future (Books, 8 March), Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer some possibly useful critical analysis, but I am shocked by their...
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Facing cyberthreats
UK higher education is undergoing significant change, and as technology is central to most of it, institutions must be cognisant of the threat and impact of growing cyberattacks on universities in...
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UK to respect ECJ role in EU research collaborations post-Brexit
Confirmation removes one of major barriers to country’s continued participation in framework programmes
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Subject-level teaching excellence framework plans ‘flawed’
UK universities have criticised proposals for discipline-level assessment in the teaching excellence framework
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Funding boost for sub-Saharan researchers
New £25 million fellowships launched by the African Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society
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US student enrolment ‘continues to decline’
Drop driven by fall in number of mature, part-time and non-degree seeking students in past year
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Turkish academics jailed for almost nine years over ‘terrorism’
Sixty-four staff from a university in south-west Turkey have been imprisoned over alleged links to a banned organisation
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Survey exposes financial burden of French higher education
Despite country’s reputation for egalitarian access, survey finds affordability is a struggle for some
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Nordic business schools should create MBAs ‘for rent’
Scandinavian executive education also told that it needs to look beyond profit
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Hong Kong student mocks Mandarin classes with ‘confession’
Hong Kong Baptist University student offers sardonic response after protest punishment
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The Home Office has questions to answer about flawed survey on international students
The Migration Advisory Committee’s survey was so poorly framed that any data would have been unusable, so how was it even approved? asks Tanja Bueltmann
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Are the humanities in crisis? If they are, how can we save them?
Although talk of crisis may be alarmist, academics in the humanities need to get out and fight their corner more effectively, former president says