Are universities really the place for students to learn every job skill?
Marketing students in business schools increasingly demand to be taught to use audio-visual software, says Emmanuel Mogaji
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Oxford college dean at centre of lengthy dispute to step down
Martyn Percy to leave Christ Church in April, reportedly with a substantial settlement
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Library sorry as student Twitter saga turns out to be tall tale
Story of student borrowing two books to share them with their mother ‘drew on genuine experiences’ but was ‘imagined’
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Journals to reward peer reviewers with publishing discounts
PeerJ will give contributors ‘tokens’ to be redeemed against article processing charges
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For-profit college conversions get new scrutiny in US
Top congressional Democrat urges Biden to reverse Keiser University’s decade-old conversion to non-profit status
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Plan to ‘level up’ UK research funding ‘unambitious’
Comparison with current data suggests government proposals are ‘not exactly a revolution in the funding balance’, say experts
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Women top Japanese medical admissions after discrimination row
Experts say expectation of long work hours and ‘old boys club’ culture among doctors still pose barriers
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‘Woke’ business schools? The reality is quite the opposite
If Jordan Peterson and his ilk think business schools have been taken over by a Marxist mob, they clearly haven’t been in one recently, says Carl Rhodes
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Gast oversaw ‘favouritism’ and ‘exclusion’ at Imperial – report
College forced to release bullying investigation by Information Commissioner’s Office
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Up, up and away
Higher inflation is set to challenge higher education everywhere, and all but the well-endowed elite will feel the bite and face difficult choices
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US science prizes overlooking Asian researchers
Professor counts Asian Americans as winning 3 per cent of nation’s major biomedical prizes, prompting promises to do better
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New Zealand reopens borders, but many students face long wait
While 5,000 students could arrive in April, the rest will not be admitted until October, effectively ruling out campus-based studies before 2023
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Visa money-lending scams ‘commonplace’, warns ex-minister
Lord Johnson urges UK to learn from Canada and adopt measures to ‘de-risk’ growing recruitmentÂ
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Majority of public fails to appreciate academics’ pandemic impact
Fifth of respondents to major global survey said universities were ‘unimportant’ in fight against Covid-19
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The week in higher education – 3 February 2022
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media