Aniko Horvath on the disconnect between data and policymaking decisions that allows foreign learners to be framed as the ‘other’
Plan explored to prevent ‘chasm’ opening up in enrolment from declining numbers of EU undergraduates
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
Sutton Trust says contextual admissions must become ‘central’ as report reveals uneven use across sector
The inventor with a penchant for clocks talks KitKat wrappers and kettles
Robert MacIntosh explains how academics should tackle their first university administrative role
Journalist who led Stanford courses in Berlin remembered
Trump has little in the way of strategy on higher education, but the sector could still suffer collateral damage in the president’s desperate search for a legislative win, says John Aubrey Douglass
The scholarly better halves of literary sleuths flatter academic readers’ egos with their virtue, says Emily Michelson
Internet entrepreneurs will not rest until they have made physical universities obsolete, predicts Glyn Davis
Accreditation of research methods should be a mandatory requirement for publication in journals, says Peter Thompson
In a pair of books exploring aspects of Jewish identity, Devorah Baum reflects on Jewishness and the human condition. She talks about turning uncomfortable ‘Jewish feelings’ such as guilt into...
Book of the week: No longer young, not yet old, the middle-aged academic sees the world askew, says Joe Moran
Rewriting the rules of journalism; pondering ways of thinking; competing with capitalism; marginalised scientists; and a history of jealousy