About
About Higher Ed Signal
The world’s universities, in focus. The decisions ahead, in view.
Read the signal. Shape what comes next.
Higher Ed Signal is the daily briefing for the people shaping universities: vice-chancellors, presidents and rectors, provosts, governing boards, and the leaders responsible for finance, research, international strategy, recruitment, students, policy, technology and teaching.
Every day our editors follow 247 official, institutional and sector sources in 33 languages across 76 countries, and bring you the developments that matter, with the original report one click away and a clear editor’s view of what it means.
Our mission
To find, verify and explain the consequential higher education developments of the day, wherever they happen, so leaders can make better-informed decisions.
Our editors
- Abigail Taylor, Leadership and Governance Editor: University leadership, governance, strategy and institutional change
- Rachel Smith, Students and International Editor: Student recruitment, internationalisation, mobility, access and student experience
- Richard Davies, Policy and Finance Editor: Higher education policy, regulation, finance and institutional sustainability
- Sarah Williamson, Teaching, Digital and AI Editor: Teaching, learning, digital transformation, AI and future skills
- Scott James, Research and Innovation Editor: Research, innovation, research funding and university–industry collaboration
What we publish
- Signal Brief: the three to five developments every leader should know about today.
- Signal Watch: the stories that are developing across the sector and the themes gaining momentum.
- Regional Signals: editions for 10 world regions and the countries within them.
Independence
We credit and link every original publisher. Covering an organisation does not imply a partnership with it or its endorsement. We do not publish sponsored content; if that ever changes it will be clearly labelled.