Hunt recommits to UK spending £20 billion on research by 2024
Chancellor also announces that investment zones will be refocused to centre on universities in ‘left-behind areas’ driving growth sectors
Chancellor also announces that investment zones will be refocused to centre on universities in ‘left-behind areas’ driving growth sectors
UUKi report records 12.7 per cent increase in transnational education headcount in space of a year
Universities told to spend 5 per cent of total income on equality programmes after report finds UN 2030 goal ‘highly unlikely’ to be met
Scholars express ‘deep concern’ over recent decrees banning women from public places and reinstating sharia
Data hint at progress in ‘improving the pipeline’ of female researchers
Rising tensions between the West and China and Russia are being seen as an indication that internationalisation may have passed its peak. But are universities, as pre-eminently international...
Greater efforts need to be made to distinguish predatory journals from those that at least aspire to scholarly standards, says Harvey Graff
Don’t wait for governments to act, say university leaders
Author of centenary report on UK adult education says plans as they stand unlikely to undo decades of neglect
Difficult decisions require uncomfortable truths, epidemiologist tells Pacific Rim universities
Steve West also calls on politicians to ‘get serious’ about solution to declining university funding
Latest DfE appointee tells event he does not want the policy debate ‘to be about Oxbridge, Oxbridge, Oxbridge’
If government sets clear ambitions, innovation follows from the private sector and charities – not the other way round, says Ian Walker
Ron Daniels, president of Johns Hopkins University, has some advice for how universities can become as respected in society as they once were
China and Japan lead the way as Asia continues to rise in global academic esteem