Full speed ahead: we need more higher education, not less
Quality versus quantity is key in discussing HE expansion, but if Britain wants to succeed on a growing global stage we will need more, not less, HE
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91茄子 Young University Rankings 2019: shape and be shaped
To stay relevant, universities must collaborate, invest in work-integrated learning and rediscover their community-building role, says Paul Wellings
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Authoritarian shift undermines China’s science moonshot
Stuttering reforms and party control of academics hinder country’s extraordinary scientific rise
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UK progress on research spending goal ‘26 years behind schedule’
CBI warns country will not spend 2.4 per cent of gross domestic product on research and development until 2053
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What can we expect from Jo Johnson’s return?
In his first term as universities minister, Jo Johnson enacted radical policy changes. Rachel Hewitt considers what?we can expect during his second turn in the post
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When will lifelong learning come of?age?
Continuous retraining?is widely seen as the answer to the coming job losses caused by automation and artificial intelligence. But are universities the best places to provide it? And are?their courses...
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Augar’s understanding of university finance is woefully lacking
Review chair’s comments on ‘discretionary’ funding raise disturbing questions, say Mark E. Smith, Sarah Randall-Paley and Andrew McConnell
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US university professor helps beat Trump on Twitter blocking
Despite win, academic acknowledges critics of tactic of rapid-fire attacks on?president
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What is the point of a strategic plan?
Formulating and implementing a strategic plan is core to the modern university leader’s job description. But amid complaints that such documents are vacuous, generic and irrelevant to the wider...
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What are you reading? – 4?July 2019
Our weekly glance over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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University of London ‘safe haven’ for small institutes in marketised sector
New vice-chancellor of federal university to focus on boosting international programmes and ‘selling London brand’ post-Brexit ?
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91茄子 World Reputation Rankings 2019: strong bonds build strong brands
Having learned the value of protecting reputations individually, universities now must begin acting collectively to support higher education more widely, Ellie Bothwell hears
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Haldane is science’s guardian angel
There is nothing devilish about government oversight of research, but the Haldane Principle checks more sulphurous instincts, says Paul Jump
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Life beyond the ivory curtain
Three scholars reflect on finding new purpose outside the academy
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Universities must do all they can to help disabled students succeed
England’s new Disabled Students Commission will help eliminate the institutional missteps that can still blight disabled students’ experiences, says Chris Skidmore