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Chinese academics coming home from overseas should be seen as a source of new ideas, not sidelined, study says

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 choosing applications and carrying out experiments remotely

It is wrong for UK ministers to set up higher and further education in opposition to one another, says former education secretary Justine Greening

Steering the innovation currently taking place in educational institutions could have major long-term benefits, says Fernando Reimers

Let’s bury the fallacy that students favour particular approaches regardless of the topic, says Gavin Moodie

The UK’s existing oversight by external visitors and professional bodies is the best way to safeguard standards, says Colin McCaig 

The Buckingham education professor’s musings on educational decline are a mainstay of the British press. But is academia right to be dismissive of his views and unusual modus operandi?

With student debt escalating and concerns persisting that college graduates are not job-ready, increasing numbers of companies are taking the training of their workers in-house. But where does that leave the higher education sector, asks Paul Basken 

Offering two-year programmes at FE colleges as part of four-year degrees could redress the UK’s spending bias in favour of HE, says Geoff Mason

David Longman urges us to pay closer attention to the changes educational technology is bringing down the line

Universities, local authorities and others must heed the Centenary Commission on Adult Education’s recommendations, says Jonathan Michie

Academics’ deep identification with their work means that the failure of a book proposal, grant application or promotion request can cut deeply. But in a competitive profession, such knock-backs are inevitable. Here, six academics recall their most traumatic rejection – and how they got over it

A single test per state could help tackle India’s costly and complex admissions system, says Sanjay Mishra

Academia has gone green in a big way in recent years, but some doubt whether it will make much difference to the planet. Nick Mayo speaks to scholars and students to assess the sector’s environmental record

Universities must re-examine their efforts to atone for slavery by listening to those affected by racial injustice, says Linda Mann

Academics should consider whether they are comfortable giving top marks to students barely literate in English who submit work translated by Google, says Paul Stapleton

Ongoing efforts to iron out regional anomalies are creating as many problems as they solve, says Ceren Ergenc

Relying on exams and essays to assess students excludes those with disabilities and ignores the real purpose of higher education, Ruth Payne writes 

Inadequate funding and lack of interregional collaboration hindering much-needed scholarship, report says

Even in disciplines in which research is inherently inexpensive, ‘grant capture’ is increasingly being adopted as a metric to judge academics and universities. But with success rates typically little better than one in five, rejection is the fate of most applications. Six academics give their tips on how to improve the odds

If academics want students to see value in course-based activities, we need to make clearer to them exactly what broader skills they will learn by completing them, says Tanya Martini

A punitive attitude towards incarceration limits the access of the US’ uniquely large prison population to college degrees. But there are signs that attitudes are finally shifting. Paul Basken considers the arguments and looks at some prime examples of what can be achieved with a captive audience

The Advertising Standards Authority is wrong to permit to any provider of training to graduates to declare itself a “graduate school”, says Viv Ellis

Reviving maintenance grants will redirect taxpayers’ money to those who don’t need it. Better to spend it on lifelong learning, says Ryan Shorthouse

Use of of group-level indicators to identify disadvantage will limit the impact of Oxford’s embrace of contextual admissions, says James Robson

The UK’s TEF experience should be a warning to ߣߣ��Ƶ’s re-elected government not to settle for empty accountability, says William Locke 

Most universities still rely on exams and assessed essays to grade their students. But as the fourth industrial revolution, employability and student satisfaction all rise up the agenda, many experts are suggesting that assessment needs to much more closely resemble real-world tasks. Anna McKie marks the arguments   

Artificial intelligence may be threatening employment but it could also be key to helping humans find alternative jobs, argues Shigeru Miyagawa 

Efforts to accrue more overseas fees could be vetoed by the Home Office and will do little to make UK students more culturally savvy, warns Peter Brady 

Tributes paid to internationally renowned figure in technology education

Better outreach and greater involvement in exam boards could raise expectations and standards for disadvantaged would-be students, says Martin Stephen

Dutch universities are conspicuously and consistently successful. Yet their funding is declining and their embrace of internationalism has put them on a collision course with the populist right. John Morgan assesses the mood in Leiden, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Maastricht

International conferences are a huge boon to academics, allowing them to hear about new findings, make new connections and, above all, enjoy the physical manifestation of their virtual global community. But is all that footfall worth the huge carbon footprint it leaves? Joanna Kidman is increasingly unsure 

The US admissions scandal notwithstanding, ߣߣ��Ƶn university history reveals a variety of approaches to allocating university places, say Gwilym Croucher, James Waghorne and Hamza Bin Jehangir

US universities might be world-leading in research terms, but there is scant evidence that this has any bearing on their prowess as educators. Why do institutions of higher education show so little interest and aptitude in instilling genuine learning, asks John Tagg 

Despite thin pickings this time around, Trudeau’s Liberals have probably done enough to win the science vote in October’s election, says Creso Sá

Difficult conversations about student complaints and colleagues’ underperformance will test the skills and judgement of senior academic staff, says Robert MacIntosh

Universities’ vocal opposition to government plans for vastly increased international fees has yielded only minor concessions, says Juliette Torabian 

US universities must think harder about how to make the poorer students they admit feel like full community members, says Anthony Abraham Jack

Regions’ struggles to provide appropriate land and resources is undermining quality, says Debananda Misra

The credentialism that the late Ron Dore analysed in his seminal 1976 book has gone global, say Keith Lewin, Angela Little and Alison Wolf

England’s fledgling university regulator is in too much of a hurry to make an impact and curry favour with ministers, says Gill Evans

Academics who want their findings to be used but not abused should bear eight things in mind, says Nick Hillman

Raise teaching entry standards or we’ll cap places, opposition tells universities

Degrees focused on specific careers need be no less rigorous or innovative than other graduate qualifications, say Sandro Galea and Lisa Sullivan

Boosts to numbers of poor and black students entering university overseen by Workers’ Party candidate Fernando Haddad could unravel if right-wing populist becomes president, writes Stephanie Reist

Find out which institutions are best in the world for social sciences, business and economics, education and law

The US car industry shows why higher education deregulation is ultimately disastrous for product quality and consumer safety, says Jeff Frank

For most young ߣߣ��Ƶns, a bachelor’s degree remains a wise investment, says Andrew Norton

The ease with which essays can be bought and the difficulty of grading them fairly means they should no longer be used for assessment, says Phil Race

Tributes paid to former Institute of Education director

Social scientists’ inexplicable failure to conduct research on their own campuses is holding back quality in undergraduate education, says Richard Arum

Cambridge researcher dreams of returning home to war-stricken country

Experts in technology and education must work hand in hand if genuinely innovative teaching is to be delivered in the digital environment, says Simone Buitendijk

Tributes paid to expert in interprofessional education who worked on both sides of the Atlantic

Overseas students’ academic potential is hobbled if their English does not far exceed current thresholds, says Danijela Trenkic

ߣߣ��Ƶn schools to run short of teachers as funding cuts and ‘bad media’ bite into education enrolments

The French thinker Simone Weil’s focus on teaching students to attend to reality is crucial in the social media age, writes Robert Zaretsky

Following individuals’ paths in and out of different institutions shows that most students eventually graduate, say Ross Finnie, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman

US-ߣߣ��Ƶn study finds that older students in classes have a better chance of entering higher education