Success with minorities makes Maryland campus a topic of study
UMBC’s success in producing black graduates who later earn science doctorates may prove tough to replicate
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Migrant academics more prolific than US colleagues but paid less
Foreign-born academics outperform US counterparts on numerous productivity measures, analysis shows
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Times Higher Education’s most-read articles of 2018
2018 was marked by strikes, pay scandals and the launch of the world’s first blockchain university
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New Year Honours 2019: damehood for ex-Hefce chief executive
Wellcome Trust director Jeremy Farrar also knighted
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Murder of dean who exposed fraud shines spotlight on corruption
One of two men accused of killing Gregory Kamwendo is a former colleague at the University of Zululand
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Finding poetry in paper titles
Brian Moeran offers a collection of haiku using research titles from the programme of a recent academic conference
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International students in Australia: less diverse, more converged
Cash flows increasingly from south and east Asia to south-eastern cities
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US universities prepared to pay high price for sporting success
Despite scandal and top-level resignations, University of Maryland system head sees football as being well worth the trouble
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New data lay bare Europe’s gender gap for STEM graduates
However, latest data from EU suggests eastern European nations having more success in keeping gap narrow
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The ‘bolus’ model: a better template for internationalisation?
Toronto scholars say Ethiopia collaboration has helped reverse brain drain and led to important milestones for country
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Sector sees opportunity in Cabinet split on visa salary threshold
Higher education leaders fear shortage of skilled workers if limit is not lowered from £30,000
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An academic’s letter to Santa
Philip Moriarty shares his Christmas wish list after taking on recommendations from the elf review panel
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Strong industry interest in research ‘needed to drive innovation’
Patent citation data suggest that economies such as South Korea, where firms have capacity to drive research, are making most progress
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Shaking off the ghosts of interviews past
An interview at Oxford is an opportunity to be celebrated, no matter how many questions you can’t answer, says Arabella Byrne
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Major drive to create data science tools for historians launched
Turing Institute and British Library collaborate on project to use artificial intelligence techniques to analyse texts