Interview with Asifa Akhtar
The epigeneticist and new Max Planck vice-president?on a global childhood, the pleasures of buses running on time, and why young researchers are more stressed than ever
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It is time to reconnect the two arms of?academic communication
As the pandemic reshapes both conferencing and publishing, melding talks and papers makes a lot of sense, says Richard?Oliver
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Murdoch denies demise of major is?payback for whistleblowers
As time drags on since their signature course was turfed out, Australian whistleblowers’ colleagues fear their discipline will die a slow death
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Australian students tipped to look beyond home states post-Covid
Online lectures may enable applicants to broaden their horizons, predicts consultant
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91茄子 World University Rankings 2021: internationalisation in a post-Covid world
With travel no longer carefree, Simon?Baker hears how standouts on internationalisation plan to keep attracting global talent
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Australian v-cs explore ‘alternative models’ of research funding
Sector leaders?drafted to help solve loss of cross-subsidies from both international and domestic teaching
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A practical guide to digital teaching and learning
With the Covid-19 pandemic likely to prolong the need for mass online learning for some time, we seek the experts’ advice on how to do it well – from designing courses and maintaining engagement to...
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Pandemic’s impact on Australian research ‘protracted’
Innovation on the line, as coronavirus unleashes domino effect on research mainstream
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Tenuous Australian research funding ‘undercut by pandemic’
Clay feet of cross-subsidy policies exposed by Covid-19 crisis, representative groups say
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Interview with Zakiya Smith Ellis
The secretary of higher education for the state of New Jersey talks about her path to a career in policy, family history and handling racist attitudes at college
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Concession agreement bankrolls Melbourne’s student beds
Australia's top-ranked university joins growing list of institutions trading off the innate commercial value of their land
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The week in higher education – 5 December 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Three in four Australian v-cs take pay cuts
Many?bosses lead from the front, ceding 20-plus per cent of their pay to help plug pandemic shortfalls
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More clamps on campus teaching
Australian universities’ online flight continues, as government tightens noose on indoor gatherings
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Do university excellence initiatives work?
Nations are increasingly making conscious efforts to propel a subset of their universities into the global elite. But are such aspirations ever met? And, if they are, is that a blessing or a curse...