The academic world must react to the Pillar of Shame’s removal
Hong Kong University’s legally dubious dismantling of the monument to Tiananmen Square should provoke global outrage, says Phil C.W. Chan
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Sacked lecturer who university refused to reinstate awarded £100K
Union accuses Huddersfield of ‘cold and calculated’ decision not to give Jonathan Duxbury his old job back
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‘Stupid’ squabble over Paris name ‘sets France back 15 years’
Decision by top court means another rebrand will be needed to help outsiders understand who’s who among republic’s reassembled universities
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Safeguards on laboratory-modified viruses ‘inadequate’
Experts warn of dangerous abandonment of long-standing ethical limits in pursuits of human vaccines and wildlife management
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ߣߣƵ’s new research direction is a road to nowhere
Pushing the ARC to focus on commercialisation neglects the complex interdependency between basic and applied research, says Duncan Ivison
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Do we really need deans and provosts?
The pandemic may just push US colleges and universities to do what they should have done a long time ago: reorganise, says Michael Hadjiargyrou
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Allan Rechtschaffen, 1927-2021
Tributes paid to ‘single-minded’ researcher who could tell you anything ‘you ever needed to know about sleep’
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Be ready for anything
Higher education looks to be beset by any number of challenges in 2022, not least more Covid disruption. Resilience may again be the year’s watchword
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On Diversity, by Russell Jacoby
Michael Marinetto enjoys a bold attempt to challenge one of the great pieties of our time
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Keeping their heads down: how are Afghan students faring in the West?
Students who escaped the chaos in Kabul are beginning their second terms at overseas universities. But can they concentrate on their studies amid trauma, worries about their families and uncertainty...
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Interview with Judith Giesberg
The historian raised in a military family talks about her interest in both war and community, and the formative class which shaped that
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Transgender disputes threaten to split university unions
Gender critical theory and harassment move up agenda as major battles over pay and pensions loom
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Hepi: ‘first-generation student’ tag unhelpful for admissions
Appealing narrative attached to ‘first-in-family’ students may obscure the actual extent of their social disadvantage, says researcher
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UK ‘missing out on talent’ as eastern European enrolment plummets
Figures suggest just a tenth of previous entrant numbers from some countries got a study visa
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New network takes aim at natural disasters and workforce needs
While many governments struggle to predict workforce needs, ߣߣƵ’s new tropical alliance is giving it a crack