A PowerPoint marathon or a ‘captured’ lecture will always be a pale imitation of a live experience, in which an expert practitioner taps into ‘the dangerous energy of all those watching eyes’, says...
Chemical weapons expert turned Cambridge don reflects on conspiracy theorists in academia, making safe a 60-tonne bomb with science and breaking the world press-up record
Tributes paid to Brown University and Carnegie Corporation president: ‘a man of the world who inspired the world’
Universities need to establish clear and transparent criteria for assessing those with borderline results, argues Andy Grayson
Wide-ranging survey of mothers working in higher education reveals institutions’ inconsistent and often ineffective responses
Changing loan terms ‘might not be popular’ and would cost average graduate £10,000 but could be better than cutting places or funding, says Hepi paper
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
To the stratosphere: will the UK hit its £22 billion research funding target?
Union says education’s secretary’s criticism of students is ‘dangerous’, as Magdalen president defends ‘democratic decision-making’ that led to removal
Interviews with learned societies raise fears that independent imprints will be frozen out of publishing’s future
Michael Higgins warns campuses ‘have suffered attrition of range and depth, loss of interdisciplinary exchange, leading in too many cases to a degradation of the very scholarship and teaching for...
Ideal of shared governance suffers, though AAUP heartened by some revivals, especially at large public universities
Limited objections tied to nation’s political divide may be theatrical but still significant, survey suggests
Head of state weighs in on dispute, as war of words escalates among Pacific neighbours