Left-leaning academics are sexier, study suggests
While right-wing politicians have been found to be more attractive than left-wing politicians, this trend may not hold true in the world of scholarship
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THE Teaching Survey 2017: results and analysis
Academics enjoy teaching. What they don’t like is the lack of preparation time, bureaucratic burdens, unprepared students – and the TEF. Jack Grove reports
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Can France win back émigré scholars?
Thousands of France’s most educated minds are now based abroad – luring them back could be a boon for its ambitious plans for higher education, Jack Grove writes
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The week in higher education – 16 February 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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HE bill: why universities are not supermarkets
Commentator Martin Wolf examines the economic flaws and false assumptions of the Higher Education and Research Bill
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Global higher education might turn upside down as West turns inward
Philip G. Altbach and Hans de Wit consider what forms internationalisation may take as the US and Europe retreat from world stage
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It’s vital for science that we cache US federal agency facts
Rebecca Lave describes the campaign to preserve crucial environmental data under threat from the Trump administration
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Teachers like the work but not the workplace
Teaching is being looked at seriously by the government, but those providing still feel overlooked and underappreciated
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Universities need to turn thoughts into actions
Applying lean principles can help universities find quick, creative solutions to pressing problems, says Madison Sandy
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Grant winners – 16 February 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Giving a voice to the voiceless in Baltimore
Ron Daniels, president of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is correct when he says that there is a “surfeit of history here, in terms of Hopkins’ relationship with the city” (“The university as...
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A mere letter?
At its final session in committee on the Higher Education and Research Bill on 30 January, the House of Lords debated amendments on the proposals for UK Research and Innovation. Lord Prior, only a...
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Nothing personal
Nothing personal Your correspondent is quite right about the Open University’s retention problem with only 14 to 17 per cent of its students graduating within seven years (“Openly self-seeking”,...