The week in higher education: 10 August 2017 The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media By 色盒直播 reporters 10 August
How to teach students to think beyond their subject The Humboldt University of Berlin, the historical home of interdisciplinarity, is experimenting with new ways to encourage a broader perspective By David Matthews 9 August
National Student Survey 2017: campuses omitted after NUS boycott Students’ unions achieve goal in teaching excellence framework protest at Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield, and eight other institutions By Jack Grove 9 August
Think locally and globally to balance the books post-Brexit Post-Brexit university funding issues are about more than the big pots of research cash, writes Gurpreet Jagpal By Gurpreet Jagpal 8 August
Secrecy and isolation: the formula for innovative science? Professor cites Soviet achievements as evidence of how detachment from mainstream scholarship can foster innovation By Matthew Reisz 8 August
Research funders urged to act on short-term contracts Staff covering for academics on leave are often given no time to conduct research themselves By Chris Havergal 8 August
Alistair Jarvis named as Universities UK chief executive Former deputy steps up to lead as Brexit and funding challenges loom By John Morgan 7 August
Can rising entry standards explain the rise in firsts? Data on the entry qualifications of students at UK universities suggest that there must be more to the growth in top degrees By Simon Baker 7 August
Anxiety over future careers hits French PhD students’ well-being More than half of doctoral candidates surveyed at one university reported “abnormal” levels of stress and depression By Holly Else 6 August
English state schools fall behind on selective university access Private school pupils 43 percentage points more likely to enrol in most prestigious institutions By Chris Havergal 3 August
Anthony Evans, 1929-2017 Creator of Leicester’s courses in applied geology remembered By Matthew Reisz 3 August
More UK universities appeal against TEF ratings UEA and Soas among institutions challenging awards in sector-wide assessment of teaching quality By Chris Havergal 3 August