Shakespeare’s insults put centre stage by Globe PhD student
Thesis explores thumb-biting, ‘Spanish figs’ and other rude Elizabethan gestures

Thesis explores thumb-biting, ‘Spanish figs’ and other rude Elizabethan gestures

The early days of Xiamen University Malaysia illustrate the challenges Chinese universities will face as they open branch campuses in other nations, say Alan Ruby and Bonnie Yingfei He

New app helps people ‘move beyond the headlines’ about climate change
Gabriel Egan laments the narcissistic craving for others’ approval brought on, he says, by the use of social networking websites

Unconscious bias training for those on promotion and recruitment panels may help tackle deficit of senior BME staff, says Leadership Foundation study

Higher university enrolment worsens the average quality of non-graduates and leads to lower wages, conference told

People, and not just technology, are key to building a successful university website, explains Joe Hoyle

For the second time in a month the American University of Afghanistan has been targeted

ONS figures will raise fears of further drop in non-EU student enrolment

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

An ‘infectiously brilliant’ intellectual historian has died

The Open University's vice-chancellor says now is the moment to turn around decline in part-time study

We talk widening participation, gender discrimination in film, and wishing on shooting stars with the French former film executive

Democratic nominee's policy leaves 'broken' system intact, experts fear

UUK in search for ‘politically achievable’ solution given that end to free movement is ‘likely’