A capital injection would protect the UK’s risky HE funding model
In the absence of domestic fee hikes and full-cost grants, world-class facilities will help maintain international student flows, says Ian Walmsley

In the absence of domestic fee hikes and full-cost grants, world-class facilities will help maintain international student flows, says Ian Walmsley

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As well-connected academic prepares to take the helm at her alma mater’s branch campus, she reflects on the opportunities – and challenges – for the institution and the nation

Data reveals that 48 universities in the top 200 have female presidents or vice-chancellors

India and Malaysia take lead as best represented countries, followed by China

An internalised, colonial-era emphasis on exam grades is preventing students from deeper learning, forum hears

115 territories now represented in THE rankings measuring universities’ progress towards sustainability

Population boom and geopolitical shifts create positive conditions for institutions to set up shop in central Asia, says higher education minister

The Seattle University academic and novelist talks about satirising a type of male scholar who wins the plum posts, despite harming colleagues

Even as Covid travel restrictions are lifted, Xi-era crackdown on freedoms is making on-the-ground research much more difficult

Plugging gaps with higher fees paid by students from overseas has allowed institutions to dodge political battles over funding, but it won’t last

Students need to know the broad outlines of global imperial history if they are to judge claims for themselves. But, typically, they don’t, says Ian Pace

‘Exponential growth’ in past few years sees China gain on the US in race to be the leading nation in global research output

Sector leaders warn of brain drain as government pushes for constitutional change to assert control over judiciary and end to recognition of degrees from Palestine

US is the ‘elephant in the room’ in a policy that seeks to attract overseas talent and money, says academic