Admit poorer students with three Cs, elite universities told Durham education experts call for more ‘radical’ approach to contextualised admissions By Jack Grove 14 August
Russell Group dominates UK’s graduate employment charts Elite universities top newly-released tables for graduate employment rates, official data shows By Jack Grove 11 August
England ‘should learn’ from US troubles with performance funding Paper highlights possible negative impact of performance-related funding and for-profit universities on widening participation By Ellie Bothwell 11 August
THE World University Rankings 2018 coming soon: what you need to know Phil Baty has the latest on the publication of the 2018 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which will be launched in London in September By Phil Baty 10 August
World’s best institutions for influencing inventions revealed Nature Index examines how research articles are cited in third-party patents By Ellie Bothwell 10 August
Interview with Stephen Milner The Italian scholar discusses how Machiavelli might have appraised current politics, the benefits of birdwatching and discovering Stevie Wonder By John Elmes 10 August
Clearing ‘set to be more competitive than ever’ Dip in number of applications puts students in the driving seat, say sector experts By Holly Else 10 August
The week in higher education: 10 August 2017 The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media By THE reporters 10 August
Danes step away from patenting in favour of ‘open science’ Aarhus University has signed up companies to fund fundamental research in what it calls a ‘patent-free playground’ By David Matthews 10 August
How to teach students to think beyond their subject The Humboldt University of Berlin, the historical home of interdisciplinarity, is experimenting with new ways to encourage a broader perspective By David Matthews 9 August
National Student Survey 2017: campuses omitted after NUS boycott Students’ unions achieve goal in teaching excellence framework protest at Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield, and eight other institutions By Jack Grove 9 August
Think locally and globally to balance the books post-Brexit Post-Brexit university funding issues are about more than the big pots of research cash, writes Gurpreet Jagpal By Gurpreet Jagpal 8 August
