A part-time PhD not for turning
Gayle Munro on the disparaging comment that fuelled her thesis and the perception that non-traditional doctoral students lack commitment

Gayle Munro on the disparaging comment that fuelled her thesis and the perception that non-traditional doctoral students lack commitment
Universities are not teaching factories. They are spaces of critical thinking and debate. Academic freedom cannot survive in a state of perpetual fear. Yet this is a pretty concise description of the...
The ongoing spiel you hear from employers is that graduates lack the skills they need to succeed in the workplace. I wonder if we’ve produced graduates in recent years who have highly specialised...
Readers may have gained a false impression from the article “Foreign LSE scholars ‘stopped from briefing government on Brexit’” (7 October). It reported claims that the Foreign and Commonwealth...
The headline for the article on universities sponsoring schools overstates the difference between the vice-chancellors from the University of Oxford and Nottingham Trent University (“Oxford’s vice-...
The issue of whether attendance at lectures should be compulsory cannot be an either/or argument (“Should student attendance in classes be compulsory?”, News, 20 October). Some professional bodies...

Campus violence could halt the homeward flow of the internationally mobile researchers South Africa’s academy needs

The latest edition of Times Higher Education discussed by the editorial team

UK prime minister Theresa May must prove her ‘fixer’ reputation by consulting vice-chancellors and ensuring overseas students feel welcome again, says David Boddy

Loan will contribute to ‘improving education in Hungary’

Country is the latest to wonder whether separate admissions processes for international students are fair

University of Toronto must prove professor’s comments constitute ‘violation of law’, says Canadian Association of University Teachers