Europe

Elite universities top newly-released tables for graduate employment rates, official data shows

Paper highlights possible negative impact of performance-related funding and for-profit universities on widening participation  

Phil Baty has the latest on the publication of the 2018 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which will be launched in London in September

Nature Index examines how research articles are cited in third-party patents  

The Italian scholar discusses how Machiavelli might have appraised current politics, the benefits of birdwatching and discovering Stevie Wonder

Aarhus University has signed up companies to fund fundamental research in what it calls a ‘patent-free playground’

Dip in number of applications puts students in the driving seat, say sector experts

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

The Humboldt University of Berlin, the historical home of interdisciplinarity, is experimenting with new ways to encourage a broader perspective 

Students’ unions achieve goal in teaching excellence framework protest at Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield, and eight other institutions

Post-Brexit university funding issues are about more than the big pots of research cash, writes Gurpreet Jagpal

Professor cites Soviet achievements as evidence of how detachment from mainstream scholarship can foster innovation