US postgraduate courses lose foreign students for second year Foreign applications down 4 per cent, enrolments drop 1 per cent in ‘troubling’ sign for graduate schools Paul Basken 2月 7日
Academic family trees: valuable insights or vanity project? Researchers who trace links between academic supervisors and students claim that it can help to shed light on the nature of mentoring Robert Hart 2月 7日
Professor suspended for using N-word in class discussion The case of Phillip Adamo, an academic at Augsburg University, provokes debate about the taboos of discussing literature Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed 2月 7日
MIT opts to keep Saudi partnerships after post-Khashoggi review MIT expresses ‘deep sense of revulsion’ over Khashoggi killing but won’t override faculty choice of partners Paul Basken 2月 6日
Chicago president feels the chill as immigration curbs bite Automatic green cards for international PhD graduates at US universities could restore America’s ‘competitive advantage’, says Robert Zimmer Jack Grove 2月 6日
US universities fall in behind China security warnings Researchers participating in China’s Thousand Talents initiative – aimed at luring scientists back home – urged to quit Paul Basken 2月 5日
US officials retreat from ‘provocative’ higher education reforms In what may be a tactical pullback, Trump administration reduces reach of wide-reaching bid to empower for-profit sector Paul Basken 2月 4日
US university students see nuance in free speech limits Amid strident debates, undergraduate attitudes reflect expert appeal for case-by-case considerations Paul Basken 2月 2日
US universities urged to join global quality debate Colleges warned their declines in foreign students could worsen if they do not pay more attention to global quality deliberations Paul Basken 2月 1日
Should plagiarism be a bar to presidency? Joe Biden’s first presidential run was derailed by a scandal over a college law paper. Should he be allowed a second chance, asks Ararat Osipian Ararat Osipian 1月 31日
Wearable brain monitor promises to aid distracted students Star Trek-style headset combines electroencephalography sensors with a video camera Rachael Pells 1月 30日
Applicant ‘told to take DNA test in hope of minority ancestry’ Philadelphia’s Thomas Jefferson University defends lawsuit launched by Princeton graduate its medical school rejected Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed 1月 30日
