Does science have all the answers – is philosophy dead?
A physicist and two philosophers reflect on the value of their respective disciplines
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Life Is Simple, by Johnjoe McFadden
Geoffrey Cantor has mixed feelings about a bold attempt to put a 14th-century friar at the heart of our understanding of science
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Should graduate employment data be used to decide course funding?
Amid concern on graduate employment in Westminster and across West, looking at funding systems that put labour market demand at centre is instructive
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Changing of guard in Hong Kong leadership ‘may narrow diversity’
International candidates may be reluctant to follow departing Taiwan-born university heads, say scholars
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Shutdowns drive master’s students’ workload and contact concerns
Overall satisfaction drops to lowest level since Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey began
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Alumni associations should help tackle humanity’s big challenges
Graduate networks are the perfect launch vehicle for systemic voluntary efforts to improve society, say Michael Madison and Martin Skladany
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Spence: don’t let digital investments dictate teaching policy
UCL president says the move back to in-person teaching has been complicated by huge costs sunk into digital learning
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Embrace advent of Western remote tutors, African academics told
Ghanaian university president Patrick Awuah says local academics and students should welcome expertise that remotely based scholars bring
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Adam Rutherford: scientists have to be better at history
Geneticist warns of the dangers of ‘fetishising’ DNA and turning a blind eye to racism
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Leaders say turn away from humanities will harm critical thinking
Universities should ensure all students, including in sciences, can access ‘great humanities education’, Berkeley dean tells THE summit
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‘Democracy in freefall’ at ߣߣÊÓƵn universities
Greens discussion paper blames corporate governance for sector’s most pressing problems
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In exile no more, Central European University puts down new roots
Rector Shalini Randeria wants displaced institution to broaden appeal at home in Vienna and for international student cohort
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We’ll write for you, plagiarism-free: essay mills’ latest ploy
Discounts, chatbots, money-back guarantees are tricks in contract cheating websites’ promotional armoury
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What students say they want is not always what they actually want
A major new survey underlines the value that students derived from flipped learning during the pandemic, says Harriet Dunbar-Morris
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ߣߣÊÓƵ retreats from blanket political disclosure requirement
Refreshed guidelines allow universities to choose which academics face scrutiny of their overseas affiliations