Computer science students must be taught to consider social effects
Departments can no longer be singularly tied to their mathematical and engineering foundations, focused only on what can be built, says Beth Mynatt
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Virtually all patent applications feature men as women lag behind
Rate of women appearing on patent applications was as low as 17 per cent in Japan and South Africa, and just 20 per cent in Germany and Egypt
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‘Stringent’ oversight needed for private PhDs in Bangladesh
Quality regulation poses the biggest challenge as Bangladesh moves to expand PhD courses to private universities
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King’s Birthday Honours: damehoods for vice-chancellor trio
List includes knighthoods for historian Niall Ferguson and climate scientist Jim Skea
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The architecture professor rebuilding flattened villages
The science is ‘just physics’ and the human chemistry matters more, says academic behind a sustainable development programme that’s going global
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Training overseas-bound graduates ‘net earner’ for poor countries
If rich countries poach your nurses you should ‘build more nursing schools’, conference hears
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Steve Coogan film defames university administrator, judge rules
Actor Steve Coogan faces legal action over the portrayal of a university registrar in his 2022 film
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NIH hesitates on disability goal but takes on diversity critics
Top US research funding agency, while unsure about proposed change to mission statement, swings back at partisan attempts to limit an equity-focused agenda
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‘Vigilance key’ as far right rises and France calls elections
While centre-right majority may offer stability in Brussels, snap poll called by Emmanuel Macron offers fresh risk
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Private US college closures look to gain public attention
Philadelphia city officials probe University of the Arts shutdown, in sign that policymakers might see the need to go beyond their habit of only protecting their publics
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Taiwanese academics fear for future as more universities close
Academics attempt to move to public universities as private institutions hardest hit by declining enrolment
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We should not lament the demise of philosophy departments
It is surely not Gradgrindian to ask whether a subject can do without a corpus of factual knowledge and still expect students to study it, says Colin Swatridge
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UK election 2024: key higher education policies at a glance
With most of the major parties’ manifestos published, THE analyses key pledges of the campaign so far
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More overseas graduates say post-degree activity ‘not meaningful’
The proportion of non-EU graduates of UK universities who said their current activity was not meaningful has doubled in recent years
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University leaders ‘must decide what sustainability means’
Most initiatives are well-meaning but ‘short-term, scattered, uncoordinated and incoherent’