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 8ÔÂ 9ÈÕ
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 8Ô 9ÈÕ
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 8ÔÂ 8ÈÕ
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 8ÔÂ 8ÈÕ
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 8ÔÂ 8ÈÕ
Alistair Jarvis named as Universities UK chief executive Former deputy steps up to lead as Brexit and funding challenges loom John Morgan 8ÔÂ 7ÈÕ
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 8ÔÂ 7ÈÕ
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 8Ô 6ÈÕ
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 8ÔÂ 3ÈÕ
Anthony Evans, 1929-2017 Creator of Leicester¡¯s courses in applied geology remembered Matthew Reisz 8Ô 3ÈÕ
More UK universities appeal against TEF ratings UEA and Soas among institutions challenging awards in sector-wide assessment of teaching quality Chris Havergal 8ÔÂ 3ÈÕ
ERC launches grants scheme for multiple principal investigators Synergy Grants will be worth a total of €250 million but, when piloted in 2012 and 2013, success rates were under 3 per cent David Matthews 8ÔÂ 2ÈÕ