Sustainable development

High-ranking party official suggests campuses outside the elite will have to downsize as university-age population contracts

End of prime minister’s two-decade term brings reflection on sector’s rapid development but also its enduring challenges

Economy is failing to create enough professional jobs for fresh graduates, leaving young voters feeling frustrated

Borderland development set to foster enhanced collaboration with mainland institutions

Project could aid Pakistani economy by boosting wages being sent back home, but Riyadh is yet to signal whether it will play ball

Conference hears that the quality of degrees is at least as important as the quantity and the disciplines

Hesa examines association between productivity and skill levels at local authority level

LSE academic’s book partly inspired by innovation economy divisions in his hometown of Oxford

Wealth inequities ‘a learning tool’ in education geared to ‘whole-person formation’, forum hears

Data shows that universities globally are underperforming in research towards SDG 11, although Oceania is ahead of others

The University of Exeter’s vice-chancellor talks about partnering with businesses, including the controversial decision to keep working with Shell on sustainability

‘The real world doesn’t come neatly compartmentalised,’ summit hears, in exploration of the ‘unique’ strengths of multidisciplinary research

Four years after massive budget cuts, enrolment starts perking up, but with doubts that it can help the remote state recover a dire exodus of talent

Universities are now invited to provide their information for participation in the sustainability-focused ranking

Developing countries should not hesitate to tap the sustainable development expertise abundant in graduate schools, says Lucia Rodriguez 

Sustainability-focused alliance to include institutions from Asian continent and more far-flung Egypt and Brazil

£1.7 billion venture with developer aims to sidestep pitfalls of university innovation districts and create jobs in deprived Greater Manchester towns

Chief executive of world’s oldest university network discusses equity in partnerships, two-way internationalisation and ensuring the UN sees the value of tertiary education

But university insists development ‘must happen for the benefit of everybody who lives in the city and surrounding areas and not at the expense or to the detriment of current residents’

While Australia has long been a favoured education destination for the mountain kingdom, it now hosts a ‘major proportion’ of the population

Opening of colleges running at 10 times the rate of development of new universities

Treasury announces first of 12 zones ‘based around a university and clusters of high-growth industries’

As more universities lay out plans to reduce emissions, the calculations can be almost as tough as the targets

Organisers look to expand programme beyond existing 110 UK-Ukraine partnerships into Europe and North America

Academy ‘at the heart’ of humanity’s failures to get to grips with scale of the issue, warns president of Arizona State University

Science may be the best tool humanity has to improve our social conditions – but we must steer it in the right direction, writes Carolina Torrealba

Newcastle has made environmental justice a core value, aligned all its work with UN goals and built partnerships to drive sustainability and innovation, says vice-chancellor Chris Day

A rapidly declining student population makes closures inevitable – but scholars say where the axe falls should not perpetuate inequalities

Protests target wealthy campuses over housing policies and lack of action on crime and community well-being

As institutions embedded within cities and regions, universities can be the catalysts for local action to address national and global problems

UK universities must think as one with civic leaders and businesses to boost regions as Boston peers have, says influential peer Lord O’Neill

University’s Institute of Technology and proposed innovation district aim to make benefits stick in one of England’s most deprived areas

The principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Glasgow discusses the economics of higher education 

Despite shifting power dynamic, centuries-old perceptions of Western superiority persist, scholars say

Chancellor heralds switch of investment zone focus to higher education institutions in ‘left-behind areas’

Science and technology investment fund created by universities of Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield injects first capital to fuel innovation shift

Tribal areas get their first public institution since 2018 incorporation, benefiting women unable to seek education further afield

Paper by Times Higher Education explores partnerships and collaboration in relation to Sustainable Development Goals

After long being attuned to primary and secondary needs, lender and donor sees urgency of tertiary-level development

‘Universities can’t sit in isolation’ but academics remain too ‘internally focused’, says Arizona State president

Labour conference hears that levelling up is now ‘dead’ for Tories, meaning alternative vision for regional innovation needed

Land of the free market outpaces UK’s muted ‘levelling up’ with funding to leverage power of universities in struggling regions

Rwandan government and Mastercard Foundation hand over $275 million as institution enters second decade

Soaring youth unemployment could spur outward flight or lead young people to turn away from ambitions of studying abroad

Spate of new senior roles created as universities seek answers on addressing sustainability, diversity and social responsibility

Experts predict institution in planned megacity could surpass KAUST with backing of all-powerful Mohammed bin Salman

Joint appointments, infrastructure sharing and publication fee waivers will help to rebuild Ukraine’s science system, say Western scientific bodies

Unesco report suggests large share of funding goes towards scholarships in relatively wealthy nations

Colonialism, deindustrialisation and climate change mean universities must help change way we live, professor of educational futures tells CGHE event

SOAS director says he’s seen little evidence colleagues are prepared to confront ‘difficult questions’ of African brain drain and ‘unequal’ relationships with institutions in the developing world

THE survey finds that applicants are using sustainability over other factors to decide where to ultimately enrol

Institutions in developing world told to take lead on tackling major global challenges