New world of work: are universities preparing students for future careers?
How can higher education prepare students for jobs that do not even exist yet? asks Christina Slade
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How Romania’s plagiarism hunter took on the prime minister
Investigative journalist Emilia Sercan defied threats to uncover high-level ring of fraudulent PhDs
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Isabelle Clark-Decès, 1956-2017
A leading anthropologist has died in a fall on a study trip in the Indian Himalayas
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Curtin University prepares to open Dubai campus
Outpost to offer business, media and education courses
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Brexit: what are the options for the UK on research?
There are several stumbling blocks on the way to negotiating access to European research funding, writes Holly Else
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Protecting EU links ‘very high priority’ for UK research chief
Sir Mark Walport acknowledges ‘challenge’ of UK’s departure from European Union as sector anxiety grows
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Mixed Messages: Norms and Social Control around Teen Sex and Pregnancy, by Stefanie Mollborn
‘Nice’ kids are still being told not to do ‘it’, setting off a dangerous dissembling, says Angelia Wilson
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Complicit Sisters: Gender and Women’s Issues across North-South Divides, by Sara de Jong
A study of female NGO workers and the migrants they interact with examines the relationship in all its complexity, says Emma Rees
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Improving How Universities Teach Science: Lessons from the Science Education Initiative, by Carl Wieman
Even scientists may be unmoved by evidence on how to make teaching better, finds Jennifer Rohn
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Transmaterial Next: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine Our Future, by Blaine Brownell
Richard Joyner enjoys a tour of the novel substances that might give tomorrow its form, including a substance seven times less dense than air
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Subject-level TEF ‘may mislead students’
Bundling of subjects under pilot for future phase of teaching excellence framework may ignore diversity and complexity of many disciplines, says engineering body
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The week in higher education – 27 July 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Student recruitment needs culture classes
Financial issues are not the central barriers to increased university access in Canada. It is cultural factors that must be tackled, say Ross Finne, Athur Sweetman and Richard Mueller
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Open access monograph dash could lead us off a cliff
It is not Luddism to be cautious about destroying an academic publishing industry that has served us well, says Marilyn Deegan
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‘Flat-pack’ students need help with isolation
Providing support for learners on low-cost ‘flat-pack degrees’ is key to expanding international higher education in Australia and worldwide, says Merlin Crossley