Wish they were here
News that the numbers of foreign students overstaying their visas have been grossly overestimated does not come as a huge surprise. The sector has been saying for years that students are education...
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Carrot or stick?
A leitmotif of current higher education debate is the tension between public and private good (“Public higher education ‘dying in the US’, warns Robert Reich”, News, 27 September). Governmental...
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Splitting chairs
On 12 October, Sir John Kingman appeared before the Science and Technology Committee to be questioned on the role of the interim chair of UK Research and Innovation, a post to which he had been...
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Knockin’ on Britain’s door
The government is a broken record on overseas student numbers when all the evidence suggests that academic mobility is a win-win situation
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Ethnic minorities more likely to regret going to university
Many graduates would also have chosen a different subject or institution in hindsight, study reveals
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The dangers in Asia’s quest for world-class universities
The pursuit of high-ranking universities should not be at the expense of education itself, writes Ka Ho Mok
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Have we entered post-truth politics, with no role for the research done by universities?
In this Q&A, Jukka Kola, rector of the University of Helsinki, gives his take on the changing face of university leadership
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LSE helps UN on tackling violence against women
Institution to work with UN special rapporteur and provide a ‘space’ to further the struggle against gender-related violence
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Academia in the freezer: running a university on top of the world
Director discusses life at the world’s northernmost university, and how it leads collaborative research on Arctic issues
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Berkeley chancellor still optimistic for increased state funding
Nicholas Dirks predicts politicians will rescue public institutions once they are convinced cost-cutting has reached its limit
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Expat Chinese academics promoted more than stay-at-home scholars
Those who leave China to study are more likely to win jobs and promotion when they return, but local academics tend to take top administrative roles, analysis suggests
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End ‘polite silence’ on diversity in universities, says v-c
Universities need to be far more open about addressing the issue of racism