Germany and Malaysia ‘top performers’ for internationalisation
Major British Council research judges 26 nations’ openness to international higher education
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Multidisciplinary research ‘career suicide’ for junior academics
However, director of the Oxford Martin School says 'disciplinary silos' were one factor contributing to 2008 financial crisis
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Quebec to set university leaders’ salaries
Province will submit proposals in ‘coming weeks’ in a bid to avoid sudden wage increases
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This (un)certain life
Academic precarity is a special kind of ‘torture’, observes Siobhan O'Dwyer, but scholarly life is not all doom and gloom
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Princeton academic's 'failure CV' sparks debate on success
Johannes Haushofer lists failures in attempt to 'balance the record' on how he climbed the greasy pole of academia
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Peer review under the microscope in new journal
Research Integrity and Peer Review will look at every stage of the scientific process, and could even change its own review system depending on what it finds
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Why are sandwich courses seeing a resurgence?
Carolyn Wickware reports on how the degree model has regained its popularity in recent years
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Industry-backed research: beware of dangers, says DCU president
Gearing research too far towards industry goals can lead to short-termist approach, warns Brian MacCraith
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Leadership research in HE is ‘theoretically weak’
Literature on leadership development needs much improvement considering the sector’s importance to the UK economy, says report
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‘Graduate tax’ coming home to roost
John Cater considers the long-term impact of the loans the Class of 2012 is now starting to repay
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Is tweeting the modern equivalent of Comte staring into his mirror while he wrote?
Twitter may be a medium for academic vanity, but it also serves some very useful scholarly purposes, argues Les Back
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Learn locally to think globally
Trisha Craig considers how universities can help foster in their students a lifelong commitment to community service
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Germany and England: fees contrast is part of wider social gulf
National attitudes to universities echo the Bundesliga-Premier League contrast, says John Morgan