Harvard president rejects predictions of mass university closures
Larry Bacow calls campuses ‘far more adaptable and durable’ than sceptics claim
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Armies of librarians are necessary to understand the modern information onslaught
Librarians create catalogues, add metadata and teach people how to think critically about what they find on the internet. The world has changed and so have they, says Beth Montague-Hellen
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THE Asia-Pacific University Rankings 2019: methodology
To create our Asia-Pacific University Rankings, we draw on Times Higher Education’s vast data collection, analysing the results with the same methods used for the World University Rankings then...
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UK universities told to ignore net migration target
Chair of Migration Advisory Committee says target no longer influences policy on student migration
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Leading UK universities going backwards on state school access
Durham, Imperial College and St Andrews all had a smaller share of first years from state schools in 2017-18 than Cambridge
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Lancaster tests appetite for fees in ‘land of the free’ Germany
Vice-chancellor predicts ‘very significant’ demand at Leipzig branch campus
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Is it time to break up the USS?
Higher Education Policy Institute director Nick Hillman assesses the history of UK academia’s main pension scheme to ask whether it needs fundamental reform
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London-centric policymaking ‘behind Erasmus+ uncertainty’
Bergen rector says UK's failure to commit to European student mobility overlooks importance of ties between Britain's north and Norway
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Bid to use AI to predict research reproducibility launched
US government funding $7.6 million (£5.9 million) project designed to give policymakers a quick indication of reproducibility
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Letters – 7 February 2019
We support free thinking in the academy I read with interest the feature article “No strings attached?” (3 January), about large donations and gifts to universities and academic independence. It...
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Power, Pleasure and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison, by David Wootton
Book of the week: Lincoln Allison mulls the consequences of a cultural shift from traditional morality to reason
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‘A plant in the middle of the desert’: women and STEM in the Arab world
Jordanian molecular biologist Rana Dajani talks to Matthew Reisz about her multiple roles as a conspicuously successful feminist, hijab-wearing scientist in the Middle East
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Strong bonds: the state of chemistry
Seven academic chemists give their views on the field’s health
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Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines and Ancient Dreams of Technology, by Adrienne Mayor
Parallels tell us little about the complexities of scientific innovation, writes Emma Gee
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The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas, by Roberto Simanowski
Our personal environment faces profound changes as a consequence of technology, says John Gilbey