The week in higher education – 15 April 2021
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Viral revolution: how has Covid-19 changed research culture?

Celebrating diversity, reforming curricula and working closely with local communities are all ways in which higher education institutions can better foster peacebuilding, says Rocky Tuan

London Higher says government proposal will ‘take away a lifeline’ for city’s universities

Senior scholars increasingly victims of gossip, muttering and insubordination, researchers say

‘The first Black woman on the tenure track in theoretical cosmology’ tells Matthew Reisz about her struggles to reconcile a pristine childhood image of science with the reality she confronts by using...

Covid-19 has prompted an explosion in preprints but has curtailed networking and underlined the extra pressures on women and junior academics. Simon Baker asks whether the pandemic era is a dark blip...

The UK has an ambitious R&D road map but the necessary steps must be taken by politicians and funding bodies, says Andrew Thompson

Three countries even received double-digit increases in 2020, but with so much new government debt, some fear cuts could be in store further down the line

Border hold-ups and complex new rules are causing supply shortages in laboratories that jeopardise research, says Wellcome Sanger Institute

The ߣߣÊÓÆµÂ Impact Rankings measure global universities’ success in delivering the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Here, we explain how we arrived at the results
This ranking focuses on universities’ research on poverty and their support for poor students and poor members of their local community. View the methodology for the Impact Rankings 2021 to find out...
This ranking focuses on universities’ research on social inequalities, their policies on discrimination and their commitment to recruiting staff and students from under-represented groups. View the ...
The focus of this ranking goes beyond the traditional view of sustainability as being about stewardship of resources to also look at the role of a university in sustaining and preserving the heritage...
This ranking focuses on the efficient use of resources and minimising waste. Universities must play their part in ensuring that their consumption is minimised, especially where resources are not...