World University Rankings 2019: methodology
We are careful and consistent in our approach to collecting and evaluating data for the World University Rankings. Here we explain how we handle the data to position more than 1,200 institutions...
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Leicester staff to strike over job cuts plan
Union members’ walkout over budget cuts will coincide with the arrival of new students
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THE podcast: 15-minute briefing on UK HE policy
The results from a major higher education funding review, a potential overhaul of student visas, and a closer look at the university pensions scheme are all on the docket for autumn
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Ontario confirms policy tying university funding to free speech
Universities will have to develop and comply with free speech policy by January
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Plan S: a shock or a solution for academic publishing?
European funders’ shift away from subscription journals raises questions over the outlook for prestigious periodicals
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Why we must prevent barriers to cooperation in basic research
Erecting walls around university research labs will only leave us all worse off, writes Andrew Williamson
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English regulator plans shift to five-year access agreements
Office for Students says end of system of annual negotiations will allow universities to be more ‘ambitious’ and ‘flexible’
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Gender imbalance ‘widespread’ in Japanese medical schools
Institutions say they don’t doctor their admissions, but figures tell a different story
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Letters – 6 September 2018
Privatisation more sensible than mergers Nick Hillman’s view that “ Ministers are anything but relaxed about university closures ” (Opinion, 16 August) and Roger Brown’s response (“ Breakdown cover...
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Don’t be pound foolish over pensions
UK academics prize the USS pension. Sacrificing a scheme ‘in rude health’ on the basis of overcautious calculations would cause more disaffection
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The fragile generation and the coddling of young minds
Jonathan Haidt tells Matthew Reisz how a moral culture of ‘safetyism’ took root in today’s students, who view the use of any word that can cause offence as an act of violence
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The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece, by Maria Michela Sassi
Elegant theories provide a new narrative about Presocratic philosophers, writes Emma Gee
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Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals, by Christine M. Korsgaard
Kant is ‘animalised’ in this philosophical look at whether non-human animals are part of our larger community, says Paul Waldau
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Books interview: Robert Holland
The author on the journey from historical fiction and 18th-century Gothic Italian fiction in English to exploring how the Mediterranean shaped the British imagination