Listening to students will help external examiners uphold standards
Bringing students into departmental conversations on standards safeguarding can reinvigorate a process that has served UK universities well for almost 200 years, says Clare Peddie
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Masturbation journal paper exposes deeper problems in research
Karl Andersson’s ‘appallingly bad’ paper has exposed the insanity of ethnography’s turn towards introspection and other postmodern research methods that place little value on objectivity, says...
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Ukrainian universities see surge in PhD applications
Academics debate whether spike in interest is down to draft dodging or career reckonings prompted by upheaval
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Six statistics that explain A-levels results day 2022
One of UK higher education’s leading data scientists, DataHE’s founder Mark Corver presents the key statistics that will define this year’s turbulent A levels and clearing season
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Pensions: Universities Superannuation Scheme now reports surplus
Biggest sector fund believes it is £1.8 billion in the black, after fears of multibillion-pound deficits led to cuts to benefits
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‘Unluckiest generation’ bears brunt of cautious admissions round
Sector ‘re-righting itself’ post-pandemic means more miss out on places in ‘one of the toughest university admissions rounds in years’
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Empty calories won’t fuel a superpower
To sustain its world-leading universities and science, the next UK prime minister must listen to Tory heavyweights and move on from ‘sugar-rush’ policymaking
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Leeds ‘deeply concerned’ for PhD student jailed in Saudi Arabia
Salma al-Shehab given 34-year sentence over critical posts on Twitter
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A-level results: fewer students get into first-choice university
About 20,000 applicants miss out on top choice as grades are deflated back to 2019 levels
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A levels ‘scramble’ for Russell Group signals UK admissions reset
Thousands of applicants missing out on their first-choice university is not a pandemic-era blip but a ‘new normal’ that will force many more to look for excellent courses beyond the Russell Group,...
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From punk rock to top dog: Nick Petford’s unlikely rise to university leadership
The University of Northampton’s outgoing vice-chancellor reflects on how lessons from punk rock led him to survive in academia and deliver one of UK higher education’s most ambitious campus projects...
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Monkeypox alarms US university campuses
College leaders wary of limited vaccines, Covid exhaustion and LGBTQ stigmatisation in an environment ripe for spreading, though serious harm judged unlikely
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Overworked academics ‘give away one-third of their time’
‘Ground-up’ system for estimating academic workloads suggests universities routinely set them too high
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The week in higher education – 18 August 2022
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media