Latin America University Rankings 2017: the weight of tradition
To better prepare graduates for today’s world, Latin American higher education must evolve, but, says Liz Reisberg, it is hidebound and resistant to change
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Latin America University Rankings 2017: progress on two fronts
Bringing internationalisation to the fore isn’t easy, so identifying the main challenges creates a helpful focus, writes Carlos Iván Moreno Arellano
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Latin America University Rankings 2017: an unwelcomed advance in Chile
Reforms in Chile have made higher education more accessible and more sustainable. So why isn’t everybody happy? asks J. Salvador Peralta
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Latin America University Rankings 2017: a window on the New World
Our rankings aim to support institutions across the region to raise their game
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Birmingham universities work together to widen access
Students from University College Birmingham-validated foundation degrees will be eligible to enrol on University of Birmingham degrees with advanced standing
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Sharp increase in first-class degrees triggers standards debate
New analysis of Hesa data shows that at least a quarter of students get a first at a third of UK universities
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Call to end ‘segregation’ with mixed-ability universities in UK
Middlesex v-c proposes ‘comprehensive element’ and end to ‘hyper-selective’ admissions in Hepi paper
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The week in higher education – 20 July 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Interview with Tracy K. Smith
We talk race, taking advice from Seamus Heaney and poetry’s vital place in society with the US’s next Poet Laureate
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Herma Hill Kay, 1934-2017
Influential Berkeley legal scholar remembered
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Latin America University Rankings 2017: results out now
Brazil retains the crown in ߣߣÊÓƵ’s second annual list of the top universities in the region as higher education institutions face up to the need to change
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Fine pencils are no use in the UK’s big-picture fees debate
University leaders dismayed by factual holes in the revived debate over tuition fees should respond with some broad brush strokes of their own, says Andy Westwood
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Lord Adonis is dead wrong: tuition fees should stay
Knee-jerk, uncosted and damaging calls to abolish fees must be resisted, says Bill Rammell
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A graduate tax would bring transparency to university funding
Flexible degrees and a clearer public contribution to their cost would command widespread support, says Iain MartinÂ