Recruiting overseas talent getting harder, say South African v-cs
Economic barriers and power outages harming sector’s reputation, but some leaders say country is continuing to hold its own, despite problems
Economic barriers and power outages harming sector’s reputation, but some leaders say country is continuing to hold its own, despite problems
UK and New Zealand’s long-awaited association will spur on talks with Canada, South Korea and Japan, according to Signe Ratso
Hiring committees should ‘measure the egotism of candidates’ for vice-chancellor roles, say researchers who compared leaders’ traits and institutional outcomes
I tell students that I want to make them my academic integrity collaborators, upholding the quality of their own education, says Kenneth Worthy
All agree cross-disciplinary collaboration is hard, but researchers favour material incentives while executives want cultural change, study finds
Victims need the certainty that worries and complaints will be listened to and that investigations will be fair-minded, says Owen Bubbers-Jones
US domestic students achieve better GPAs when cohabiting with someone from overseas, but study finds no effect on international students themselves
Apparently widespread use of Bluetooth earpieces by medical school entrance candidates in one province has forced a re-sit, say four researchers
Complete careers rethink needed to allow ‘upshifts and downshifts’ during the course of a working life, female leaders tell conference
Microcredentials designed by Google and IBM will add practical training in key roles to traditional academic offerings, says chief executive of edtech firm
Decade of poor progress means number of degree holders is barely above the sub-Saharan African average
Academic dies after displaying symptoms of disease he studied, with thousands of unauthorised samples reportedly unearthed at lab
Union and employer association welcome delay to resolve ‘unintended consequences’
Researchers mustn’t be obliged to second-guess which results might not play out well in public or with powerful interests, worries Tracey Brown
If you get what you measure, then a new framework for assessing universities’ efforts to support interdisciplinarity will provide welcome impetus