Making political interventions more effective
Lennard Davis wonders whether activist academics have wrongly prioritised exuberantly bad behaviour over the hard graft of working for real change

Lennard Davis wonders whether activist academics have wrongly prioritised exuberantly bad behaviour over the hard graft of working for real change

Top universities demand the best in the world as leaders. But when does a fresh international outlook outweigh domestic knowledge and experience?

Overseas campuses in Malaysia and China offer University of Nottingham students the global outlook necessary for today’s world, says Shearer West

John Morgan looks at why the universities and science minister’s comeback was so short and what his exit means

James Stevens Curl enjoys a brief survey of changing British attitudes to the saying of final farewells

Douglas J. Davies considers an analysis of how funerary practices can take much greater account of ecological concerns

Prime minister’s brother cites ‘unresolvable tension’ between ‘family loyalty and the national interest’

The author of Cricket Country on childhood reading, reflecting on the relationship between sport and society, and his favourite fiction genre

European Union nationals to be limited to three years in UK if country crashes out of bloc

Book of the week: Jennifer Rohn is startled by a detailed account of the scale of academic malpractice

Times Higher Education analysis shows heads of institutions last longer in US than in UK or Australia

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Harvard tops student-focused ranking for fourth consecutive year

Teachers can use the reading list to help students understand the process of learning, writes Richard Steadman-Jones