Universities in the Gulf are increasingly attracting scholars and staff from across the Arab region and beyond. What are the main pull factors? And how is this shifting the knowledge centres of the...
Aberdeen’s proposal to close language degree programmes might save money but it will impoverish international understanding, says Charles Burdett
Sadiq Khan claims Susan Hall is ‘against foreign students’ coming to the capital, but she accuses him of ‘making things up’
Locals with overseas qualifications are no longer welcome in China’s state-owned enterprises, conference hears
Combining a series of methods for boosting research reproducibility found to produce huge gains in overall success
Move is latest in sector-wide process of ‘neutering Hong Kong universities’ by giving legislators say over their decisions, says academic
Polling also finds public ‘misunderstanding’ in idea that graduates lean left on economics, suggesting impact of ‘woke’ universities narrative
State disavows its own idea that professors can’t discuss reproductive rights, but wary faculty persist with lawsuit
The American University in Cairo’s first Arab leader on helping people reskill, serving the community and taking on the ‘necessary evil’ of administration
Before undertaking change programmes, universities should devote more attention to designing how success will be achieved, says Paul Woodgates
Data shows that universities globally are underperforming in research towards SDG 11, although Oceania is ahead of others
Recruitment of domestic school-leavers is stagnant amid concerns over rising graduate debt levels and weak employment outcomes. With ministers keen to turbocharge enrolment to upskill the nation,...
It may be true that higher education rarely tops the agenda in electoral campaigns, but don’t be fooled – the politics is as fevered as ever
Waving or drowning: The fluctuating appeal of higher education in Australia
Despite backlash fears, quotas aimed at increasing proportion of women on academic boards can aid gender equality more broadly, study suggests