German hopes of recreating US-style bursary culture stutter The Deutschlandstipendium, which sponsors students with a mixture of public and private funding, has disappointed some critics David Matthews 5月 31日
Hopes rise for solution to Central European University stand-off Budapest institution says it will take in students for 2017-18, but its future is still not secure David Matthews 5月 30日
Post-Brexit UK ‘may need to launch global funding council’ Country’s scientists must be able to demonstrate that they can continue competing on the world stage, senior academic says Holly Else 5月 30日
Universities combine to steer German internet policy New institute will receive €10 million a year for interdisciplinary research David Matthews 5月 30日
Dutch business school rocked by criticism of its links to Shell Rotterdam School of Management contract with oil company ‘promised influence over curriculum and admissions’ David Matthews 5月 30日
Learning analytics: a better way to measure student satisfaction Dragan Gasevic looks at how learning analytics can be used to support the student experience as a tool for learning gain Dragan Gasevic 5月 28日
AI bot ‘more than halves’ time students spend finding courses ‘Alex’, set to be rolled out at the Technical University of Berlin, is first chatbot to have benefits to students measured David Matthews 5月 28日
Jacques Biot: ‘We must prepare our students for the fourth industrial revolution’ Ahead of the THE Innovation and Impact Summit, École Polytechnique president Jacques Biot urges universities to prepare for ‘Industry 4.0’ Jacques Biot 5月 27日
Durham’s ‘repositioning’ to create 300 academic jobs Vice-chancellor believes international scholars can be tempted away from the golden triangle and to the North of England John Elmes 5月 27日
The pitfalls of working with industry (and how to avoid them) Ahead of the THE Innovation and Impact Summit, speaker Max Lu looks at the challenges of university-industry partnership Max Lu 5月 26日
Manchester bombing spotlights universities’ anti-terror role One researcher urges academics to put concerns aside and back Prevent counter-radicalisation strategy, while others say it ‘doesn’t work’ Jack Grove 5月 26日
UK and Australia explore post-Brexit bilateral research fund Reciprocal academic visa also among ideas under consideration by vice-chancellors Matthew Reisz 5月 26日
