Management and governance

The decline of a once-lucrative indoor market shows how job losses at Heriot-Watt could signal big trouble ahead for the sector, says Helga Drummond

As the THE Young University Rankings 2017 highlight rising stars, Jack Grove looks at six institutions – recently launched or still in the planning stages – built on bold notions and innovative approaches

Three-quarters of respondents are dissatisfied with the people running their institutions

All three of England’s for-profit universities owned in Netherlands

Universities must play a major part in the emergence of the new technical education sector envisaged in the chancellor’s recent Budget, says Andy Westwood

Automation has the potential to replace or alter 35 million jobs worldwide, which means universities must adapt to survive, argues Nancy Gleason

Union calls for universities to remove barriers to peaceful protest

Leading scholar says many countries have ‘neither the will nor the capacity’ to manage growth

Universities in the UK have developed a range of different approaches to governance, and there’s no sign that the trend will stop, says Michael Shattock

‘If we don’t know how we learn, how on earth do we know how to teach?’ says L. Rafael Reif, who tells Ellie Bothwell how the research giant is working to improve teaching practice

Conducting clinical trials during an epidemic for the first time, researchers fast-tracked the creation of a vaccine for Ebola, but not before 11,000 people had died

Universities should consider building ‘families’ of schools and colleges to facilitate easy transfer between different levels of education, says David Phoenix

South Sudan may be racked by famine, civil war and corruption, but the probity and effectiveness of its largely Western-educated vice-chancellors are providing the rest of the public sector with considerable food for thought, says Kuyok Abol Kuyok

Former Smith College president set to succeed Nicholas Dirks

Institutions with ideas for promoting gender equality should not keep them to themselves, says Kate Williams

Discriminating in hiring practice against particular intellectual perspectives is no less sinister than discriminating against particular political persuasions, says Glenn Geher

But Cambridge head warns that perceived isolation from neighbours is ‘biggest challenge’

Like cricket, academia needs specialists, and revised calendars and tech will show teachers belong in the top order, says Merlin Crossley

University of Hong Kong v-c denies he is ‘heading for a simple life’ as the next head of the University of Edinburgh

Applying lean principles can help universities find quick, creative solutions to pressing problems, says Madison Sandy

Toby Miller on the lessons that other countries could teach universities in the UK

Institutions displaced by war in the country’s east have relocated campuses and adopted distance learning techniques to continue teaching. Hilary Lamb reports

Female academics’ feedback on issues such as ‘acceptable’ norms reveals a sector far from its ideals, say Laurie Cohen and Jo Duberley

Sir David Bell’s review says the ECU, HEA and LFHE should become one body by September

Steve Fuller on the need for leaders who can make the radical decisions necessary to survive existential threats both internal and external

John Morgan considers the impact on students and US scholars, and the political earthquake’s potential positives

Average cost of remunerating v-cs in group rose by 6 per cent last year but salaries still lag those in top US and Australian universities

From respect and metrics to mistakes and biscuits, management scholar John Hendry offers advice

Although the term still resonates with scholars, it means less and less in today’s academy, says Bruce Macfarlane

Leading higher education scholar warns that the sector will ‘shut down’ if institutions do not report their value

Buildings and statues dedicated to people whose views clash with modern values can cause difficulties, but is tearing down history the answer?

For the first time, says the UK’s universities minister Jo Johnson, academic freedom and institutional autonomy will be enshrined in UK law

To help manage their expanding activities, institutions require new corporate leadership personnel, Sarah Shaw says

Chris Kelly said that a female vet was ‘equivalent to two-fifths’ of a male counterpart

Cape Breton University’s board denies departure is related to specific terms of the agreement made between David Wheeler and the faculty union  

Provost says institution 'must do better' as independent researchers find focus on excellence has had 'negative impact' alongside top results

Simon Gaskell and Adrian Collette explain why proper engagement is an important driver of institutional performance, teaching and research

Conservative, Labour and crossbench peers all join criticism in House of Lords

An independent investigation is reviewing David Wheeler’s conduct during staff negotiations 

Berkeley academic also tells THE event that government initiatives have little influence on the quality of universities

The rector of the University of Antwerp says elite institutions are more focused on themselves than the role of higher education

If the government won’t demonstrate the value and importance of university, then vice-chancellors need to step up and do it, say Paul Woodgates and Mike Boxall

New rector warns against drawing students only from elite and making academics 'sheep with five feet'

PA Consulting survey finds vice-chancellors worrying over ‘barrage’ of policy changes that will lead to ‘golden age’ of stability being lost

We have all the elements needed to make online courses succeed, but institutional inertia at well-established universities stymies progress, argues Laurence Brockliss

One year shaved off time to degree under new national framework

Requesting a log of daily activity means that trust between the institution and the scholar has broken down, says Toby Miller

Mark Gatenby considers what it means for business schools – and universities more generally – to embrace Utopian ways of thinking

Plans for powerful new regulator still face 'difficult time' in the House of Lords

It’s not just EU nationals that universities should worry about losing, says Timothy Devinney, and a shrinking pound won’t help

German institutions should learn from car firms to better attract top talent, say researchers

Not all universities are great at everything, so they shouldn’t claim to be, say Matthew Hartley and Alan Ruby

Government decree on rector appointments comes under state of emergency after coup attempt

Is the average term of office for UK university vice-chancellors getting shorter? Nick Hillman and Tom Huxley find out

University of Toronto must prove professor’s comments constitute ‘violation of law’, says Canadian Association of University Teachers

Combining higher education institutions will be 'catalyst' to improve scholarship, says minister

UUK must help advance equality at the front of the lecture hall through loan write-offs and conferences, says Geraldine Van Bueren

In embracing ‘cognitive capitalism’, US universities have moved from knowledge generation to income generation, argues Henry Heller