What Chinese investment means for African higher education
Ellie Bothwell reports on what both regions gain – and lose – from the Sino-African partnership
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Apprenticeship levy 'could worsen part-time degree crisis'
Hepi report calls for levy to extend to employer-sponsored degrees, or firms will likely pull out of funding such courses
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The week in higher education – 21 April 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world's media
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Academics must not give up on monographs
Producing ‘real’ books builds academics’ collective public presence, and it is also the most irresistible scholarly challenge, says Ödül Bozkurt
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Academics in Italy have boycotted assessment. What has it achieved?
Many Italians have refused to take part in the country’s research assessment exercise. Alberto Baccini and Giuseppe De Nicolao consider the protest’s impact
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Grant winners – 21 April 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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NUS to encourage students to ‘wreck’ the TEF with NSS boycott
Students will be asked to sabotage the National Student Survey unless ministers pull back from reforms
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Malia Bouattia elected first black female NUS president
High-profile critic of Prevent has attracted criticism from Jewish student societies over her comments on Israel-Palestine conflict
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Alan Rusbridger on building a more inclusive University of Oxford
An idea formed in a Dublin bar could help Oxford in its ambition to act with greater ‘agility and generosity’, says principal of Lady Margaret Hall
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University of Oxford college to offer ‘foundation year’
Pilot scheme at Lady Margaret Hall will accept 12 students who ‘would not normally apply or succeed in competing through conventional channels’
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EU report: science benefit to UK ‘could be overstated’
Although the UK does well in competitive grant funding, it loses out on EU structural funds
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Wellcome study prompts medical research charity trust concerns
Negative stories including collapse of Kids Company appear to be making the public more wary of major research funders
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KAIST president: internationalisation still a 'challenge' in South Korea
Sung-Mo Kang says the university has increased its support to international staff and students but it is still difficult to recruit from overseas
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Number 10 photo gaffe: what it reveals
John Morgan looks at potential embarrassment for BIS on TEF and private provider plans