In sharing his side of the conversation about England’s post-18 education review, Chris Skidmore gives insight into the battle going on inside the government, John Morgan writes
Record rate applying among English 18-year-olds counters demographics but applications to lower-tariff institutions still struggling
Narratives of decline fail to take account of the recent revival of the liberal arts in India, says Saikat Majumdar
Teachers must guide science students in how to ‘tell a story’ in their reports, write Anna Sajina and Sergei Sazhin
Seeking special status will further antagonise non-members faced with curtailed access to EU research funding, says Jan Palmowski
As Brexit reaches fever pitch, who knows what damage the 2028 research excellence framework might reveal
The case of Phillip Adamo, an academic at Augsburg University, provokes debate about the taboos of discussing literature
A mass exodus of talent prompted by political and humanitarian crisis leaves universities without staff or students left to teach
MIT expresses ‘deep sense of revulsion’ over Khashoggi killing but won’t override faculty choice of partners
No-deal plans for the Erasmus+ programme reveal that the UK has no intention of creating a replacement scheme. This is bad news for students, employers and ‘global Britain’, says Vivienne SternÂ
Survey reveals many staff in UK universities are sceptical about the value of workload models
Academics call on university to denounce Mthuli Ncube after violent repression of protests
Automatic green cards for international PhD graduates at US universities could restore America’s ‘competitive advantage’, says Robert Zimmer
Scholar warns that rising numbers of international university staff in Singapore could ‘make the academy more conservative’
Academics assess the impact Meghan Markle may have in her new role as patron of the Association of Commonwealth Universities