A success recast as a great mistake
Across the Western world, decades of growth in university participation are being repainted as a policy error as funding woes come to a head
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Antisemitic incidents in higher education triple amid Gaza crisis
Anti-Jewish hate reaches record high as vast majority of cases recorded by Community Security Trust come after 7 October
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Interview with Mark Brandon
Polar scientist on working with David Attenborough, capturing nuance in diversity debates and the continued importance of the Open University
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Does hybrid working spell end of the individual faculty office?
Growing scrutiny of empty departmental workplaces has revived the fraught debate over whether academics should retain their own assigned office
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Labour’s ‘silence’ on graduate visas raises UK sector alarm
Opposition scenting power urged to ‘show political leadership’ in face of Tory pressure to scrap or scale back post-study work route
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‘Pod-sized’ rooms plan to reduce UK student rents
Hepi paper says rents need to come down by about 30 per cent in response to cost-of-living crisis
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The week in higher education – 15 February 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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University rankings are thriving: just look at the data
Reports of the demise of university league tables are greatly exaggerated. Our rankings are growing in size and influence, writes David Watkins
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UK university applications down for third year in a row
Ucas data reveals drop in application rate among UK school-leavers and significant declines in international interest from key sectors, with least selective institutions bearing brunt
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Richard Sennett: ‘I’ve always felt like a fish out of water in academia’
The feted urban sociologist Richard Sennett tells Matthew Reisz about how his former career as a cellist inspired his latest trilogy of books, why his ideal university would be more night school than...
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There is a way out of cancel culture – but it’s not free speech
A competing human rights framework would help the likes of Jo Phoenix and her critics into a dialogue shaped by active listening, says Andy Hargreaves
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Why aren’t US university leaders pushing back against political attack?
The political maelstrom around US universities’ handling of pro-Palestinian protests reflects a right-wing campaign that is increasingly challenging higher education’s autonomy to determine its...
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Bristol loses High Court appeal in Natasha Abrahart case
Judge upholds ruling that university discriminated against student by failing to adjust how she was assessed
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Universities jeopardise workers’ ‘psychosocial safety’
Although conditions improved following Covid lockdowns, university staff’s mental health kept deteriorating, longitudinal research finds
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Some Australian campuses ‘earn more from locals than foreigners’
One in four institutions reaps higher average income from domestic than international students, reported data suggests