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 色盒直播 reporters 8月 10日
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 David Matthews 8月 9日
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 Jack Grove 8月 9日
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 Gurpreet Jagpal 8月 8日
Secrecy and isolation: the formula for innovative science? Professor cites Soviet achievements as evidence of how detachment from mainstream scholarship can foster innovation Matthew Reisz 8月 8日
Research funders urged to act on short-term contracts Staff covering for academics on leave are often given no time to conduct research themselves Chris Havergal 8月 8日
Alistair Jarvis named as Universities UK chief executive Former deputy steps up to lead as Brexit and funding challenges loom John Morgan 8月 7日
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 Simon Baker 8月 7日
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 Holly Else 8月 6日
English state schools fall behind on selective university access Private school pupils 43 percentage points more likely to enrol in most prestigious institutions Chris Havergal 8月 3日
Anthony Evans, 1929-2017 Creator of Leicester’s courses in applied geology remembered Matthew Reisz 8月 3日
More UK universities appeal against TEF ratings UEA and Soas among institutions challenging awards in sector-wide assessment of teaching quality Chris Havergal 8月 3日