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3 January

Mexican universities grapple with how to handle populist Amlo

By Sara Custer

3 January

Korean professors indicted in admissions case tied to politics

2 January

New world disorder: the academy’s role in upholding internationalism

Rachel Kyte’s previous roles in supra-national bodies make the new dean of Tufts University’s Fletcher School of international relations determined to see the academy play its part in rescuing multilateralism and addressing climate change, writes John Gill

By John Gill

2 January

Europe needs more research investment if it is to be climate-neutral by 2050

3 January

Academics’ new year resolutions for 2020

2 January

Rankings

The 10 most popular THE rankings stories of 2019

A look at the most-read Times Higher Education university rankings articles from the past 12 months

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Summits

India Universities Forum

16 January - 17 January 2020

Noida, India

THE Live: Junior academics feel management ‘have pulled the ladder up’

By Anna McKie

North America

Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Zocalo Square after winning the general election

Mexican universities grapple with how to handle populist Amlo

By Sara Custer

3 January

Call for US R&D ‘surge’ through ‘heartland’ universities

3 January

Bias fears over Uber academic research programme

By David Matthews

2 January

New world disorder: the academy’s role in upholding internationalism

By John Gill

2 January

Europe

Europe needs more research investment if it is to be climate-neutral by 2050

By Jan Palmowski

3 January

Hillary Clinton appointed Queen’s University Belfast chancellor

By Chris Havergal

2 January

V-c fears hopes of UK joining Horizon Europe ‘drifting away’

2 January

‘TripAdvisor for peer review’ targets publishing bias

By Jack Grove

2 January

Asia

Korean professors indicted in admissions case tied to politics

2 January

Researcher behind ‘gene-edited babies’ given prison sentence

30 December

Is student politics out of control in Bangladesh?

By Nahid Neazy

30 December

Dismissal of Chinese professors seen as major progress on #MeToo

20 December

Australia & New Zealand

Australia must not pull up the ladder for poorer students

By Dawn Freshwater

2 January

Working after hours? It’s academic

1 January

Australian funding model ‘risks backfiring on national interest’

20 December

Paddy Nixon to take the helm at Canberra

20 December

News

Call for US R&D ‘surge’ through ‘heartland’ universities

Universities have the right track record on place-making and innovation, argues Brookings Institution fellow and report co-author

3 January

Mexican universities grapple with how to handle populist Amlo

Sector heads recognise that Mexicans have rallied behind the president’s promises even though problems of inequality and social mobility persist

By Sara Custer

3 January

Korean professors indicted in admissions case tied to politics

Former justice minster and wife alleged to have faked materials for children’s university applications

2 January

Bias fears over Uber academic research programme

By David Matthews

2 January

V-c fears hopes of UK joining Horizon Europe ‘drifting away’

2 January

Hillary Clinton appointed Queen’s University Belfast chancellor

By Chris Havergal

2 January

‘TripAdvisor for peer review’ targets publishing bias

By Jack Grove

2 January

Caspar Melville: why studying dance music matters for black Britain

2 January

Teaching intelligence: building a global community for pedagogy

By Anna McKie

2 January

Working after hours? It’s academic

1 January

Harvard teaching assistants end strike without deal

By Paul Basken

1 January

Ministers urged to back, not bash, English northern universities