Performing arts need a research and practice excellence framework
Research-led teaching is undermined when academics’ research is pushed into areas only obliquely related to students’ interests, says Ian Pace
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Talking leadership 25: Suzanne Fortier on supporting refugees and addressing racism
The vice-chancellor of McGill University reflects on her nine years leading one of Canada’s top universities as she prepares to step down
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Oxford names neuroscientist Irene Tracey as vice-chancellor
Merton College warden boasts long association with city and university, but is relative newcomer to top-level leadership
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UK student mental health crisis ‘may be worse than thought’
Study highlights significant under-reporting of anxiety and stress, with male and ethnic minority learners among least likely to seek help
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Scholars tipped to desert universities if US states ban abortion
After leaked version of US Supreme Court ruling, conservative-state universities face prospect of sliding further behind on quality
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‘First causal evidence’ that degrees ‘make people more liberal’
Study finds getting a degree reduces authoritarianism and racial prejudice and increases economic right-wing attitudes
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Australian job losses ‘not driven by pandemic necessity’
Extent of staffing overhauls bore little relationship to Covid’s financial carnage, says report
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English number caps ‘could be seen as signal of poor quality’
Universities UK fears restricting student numbers at particular providers could have damaging reputational effects
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Student number caps will hurt everyone, not just universities
Restricting university entry will make widening participation and levelling-up all the harder, says Steve West
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Australia struggles to get medical students to work in regions
Less than 5 per cent of medical students on indentureship deal have fulfilled obligations to work outside cities
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Academics must rebut policy-based ‘evidence’
Politicians’ false claims to be implementing evidence-based policy risk undermining academia’s reputation, says Gary Thomas
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India ‘weaponises’ higher education by rejecting Pakistan degrees
Pakistani scholars blast move by India’s University Grants Commission, calling it ‘discriminatory, illogical and unilateral’
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Indian government encroachment on academic autonomy is spreading
Resignations from the Australia India Institute suggest that politicisation of university management is not confined to the mainland, says Mukhtar Ahmad
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Graduations at risk as UK marking boycott planned from 23 May
Academics at 44Â institutions to refuse to mark work or set exams in midst of busy summer assessment period, in ongoing row over pay and pensions