Online harassment is now spilling into the real world, with politically outspoken historians doxed and subject to posters warning: ‘You are being watched’
With overseas enrolments hitting the buffers during the pandemic, debate rages over whether higher education’s excessive reliance on this income stream is self-inflicted – and how universities can keep themselves on the financial rails in future. John Ross reports
Academics say universities are in the dark over their future funding levels, and ‘compulsory’ higher education policy creates overly high expectations for students
Brussels-backed pilot project has borne fruit, but leaders say creating ‘seamless mobility’ across continent has been even more expensive and bureaucratic than expected
Amid the economic ravages inflicted by the coronavirus, the EU has agreed a huge stimulus package. But while research in some countries looks set for a transformational boost, it may be a different story for teaching
Worries about Islamo-leftism in France and free speech in England reflect disciplines’ straddling of science and activism, says Alexis Artaud de La Ferrière
Higher education reforms promised differentiation, but a failure to implement bold changes and a lack of desire for innovation are resulting in the opposite trend, says Liviu Andreescu