Poor German pushing international students towards dropping out
Eager recruiters, lenient testers and delusional students must all share the blame for dire retention, studies suggest
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Single funding bodies would heal UK’s HE-FE divide, says report
Paper says ‘too often colleges and universities have been pitted against each other’
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Debate as California State bans caste discrimination
Amid support for policy shift, some professors question why South Asians are being singled out
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Ex-Bedfordshire v-c wants to put Kurdistan on ‘global HE map’
In new role, Bill Rammell seeks to boost international ties, resist nepotism and push beyond pockets of excellence
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We must end linguistic discrimination in academic publishing
Publishers need to examine their biases and universities their support mechanisms, say Avi Staiman, Marnie Jo Petray and Gaillynn Clements
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Seven reasons why your institution should participate in the World University Rankings
Why are university rankings so important? They help institutions build global brand visibility, forge strategic partnerships and recruit international talent
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Bibliographic quarantine is blurring our understanding of secularism
Inhaling one another’s insights could help scholars assuage public confusion about this crucial but confusing concept, says Jacques Berlinerblau
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Are universities really the place for students to learn every job skill?
Marketing students in business schools increasingly demand to be taught to use audio-visual software, says Emmanuel Mogaji
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Oxford college dean at centre of lengthy dispute to step down
Martyn Percy to leave Christ Church in April, reportedly with a substantial settlement
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Library sorry as student Twitter saga turns out to be tall tale
Story of student borrowing two books to share them with their mother ‘drew on genuine experiences’ but was ‘imagined’
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Journals to reward peer reviewers with publishing discounts
PeerJ will give contributors ‘tokens’ to be redeemed against article processing charges
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For-profit college conversions get new scrutiny in US
Top congressional Democrat urges Biden to reverse Keiser University’s decade-old conversion to non-profit status
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Plan to ‘level up’ UK research funding ‘unambitious’
Comparison with current data suggests government proposals are ‘not exactly a revolution in the funding balance’, say experts
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Women top Japanese medical admissions after discrimination row
Experts say expectation of long work hours and ‘old boys club’ culture among doctors still pose barriers
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‘Woke’ business schools? The reality is quite the opposite
If Jordan Peterson and his ilk think business schools have been taken over by a Marxist mob, they clearly haven’t been in one recently, says Carl Rhodes