How high can China fly?
The country’s universities have shot up global rankings on the back of huge investment and a ruthless focus on publication. But as the country gears up for its next five-year plan, Joyce Lau asks...
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Going global needn’t mean racking up air miles, universities told
Professor calls on sector to embrace virtual connections and challenge international academic identity?
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Investment in digital transformation will reap a?rich dividend
Mass reliance on the traditional 50-minute lecture format will soon be a thing of the past, says David Maguire
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Evolving the university offer and ensuring degrees remain ‘fresh’
Helping launch UCL’s online-only MBA this year provided James Berry with keen insights into the ways universities can invest in the future
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91茄子 Awards Asia 2020: winners announced
Both top-ranked Tsinghua and lesser-known institutions lauded for excellence in difficult times
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Oxford vaccine success is ‘wider win for academic science’
Comparisons with big pharma distract from ‘amazing’ achievement that will lead to long-term dividends for science, say experts
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Call for mission-focused ‘collaboration zones’ to boost UK R&D
Vice-chancellors and business leaders urge tighter focus and fresh funding incentives to drive up industry-academia innovation
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Three universities unite for new bid to scale up Sheffield’s AMRC
Plan?seems to unite various factions?after acrimony, but could hinge on Whitehall’s post-Cummings appetite for research ‘levelling up’
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National security rules on UK investments may impact universities
Government outlines scenario where university spinout’s sale to investor with links to ‘hostile state’ could be called in under planned new law
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UK boosts research budget but fails to confirm ?22 billion target
Chancellor’s spending review research boost leaves questions around earlier promises, as funds committed for Erasmus replacement
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Firms shift towards wanting ‘work-ready’ graduates
Latest edition of Global University Employability Ranking suggests systems with closest industry partnerships on skills are on the rise
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A third of Australian sector ‘underpaying staff’, union?warns
Some universities acknowledge ‘errors’ totalling millions of dollars but deny deliberate ‘wage?theft’
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Retail can teach universities a?lot about digital competition
Rationalising online and in-person offerings and establishing mutually beneficial partnerships will be crucial, say Michael Braun and Scott Latham
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China’s five-year plan to step up HE modernisation impetus
Universities urged to take opportunity to modernise, as?government’s next strategic plan set to boost research and technology
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REF reforms to seek ‘accountability without complex bureaucracy’
Science minister Amanda Solloway announces review of UK’s main research assessment exercise