University finances: start spreading the risk
As universities rely on multiple income streams to stay afloat, private money comes with caveats and portfolios must balance profit and principle
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Female empowerment in Africa: the critical role of education
Baroness Amos and Toyin Saraki on why Soas is using its centenary to highlight the importance of leveraging female education to improve development
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World University Rankings 2018: their dreams are not impossible
Position in the overall rankings does not capture some of the ways in which many institutions in developing countries shine. Ellie Bothwell reports
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Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction, by Chris Thomas
Book of the week: Human actions have killed off some species but may be kick-starting new ones, writes Jules Pretty
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How will Brexit shape the European research landscape?
Holly Else considers how the withdrawal of one of the biggest players in European research could change science on the Continent, and likely national winners and losers
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US university plans dozens of overseas ‘microcampuses’
Arizona argues delivering dual degrees in branded space is more sustainable than opening a traditional branch campus
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Juilliard School: reaching out across the city and the world
Outgoing president says the arts are more important than ever in these troubled times
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Young academics’ research ‘elegant but not interesting’
But professor says Trump presidency might now provide ‘incentive’ for junior scholars to ask ‘important questions’
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It’s your score in the long game that counts
As tactics to maximise rankings become common knowledge and fluctuation diminishes, universities will re-focus on a diversifying array of missions, says Merlin Crossley
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Internal promotion at Asian universities ‘works against women’
However, dean at Asian University for Women in Bangladesh says the number of female leaders on the continent is rising
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Global visa crackdowns may herald era of ‘contested’ mobility
Warnings that US and Australian policies threaten academic and student movement
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Chinese universities ‘stand to gain’ if scholars spurn Trump’s US
Some academics and students may choose to move to China over the US, says leading scholar
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Interview with Bertil Andersson
We speak to the head of Nanyang Technological University about the rise of Asia, what it’s like being a European leading a Singaporean institution, and barbecue chicken
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Interview with Nirmala Rao
We talk women’s equality and emancipation, the necessity of HE investment in developing countries and eureka moments in the Himalayas with the new head of the Asian University for Women