Healing the wounds
Since the referendum, we have experienced confusion and division. This is political, but it is also an emotional and psychological process. A split between facts and emotion is part of what...
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Lessons learned
I had no idea what European Studies were. I just didn’t want to spend four years studying Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo and Camus. Son of a railwayman, my France was shaped by high-speed trains, snow-...
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Brexit opportunities
By wishing to stay in the European Union, higher education staff have placed themselves at odds with most ordinary people in provincial England and Wales. Now Times Higher Education is full of...
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In development
I appreciate David Mould’s understanding of what he doesn’t know and of how complex Madagascar’s social and cultural landscape is, but his article just highlights everything that is wrong with the...
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Grant winners – 7 July 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Universities’ new mission: reconnect
With expertise being vilified, institutions must re-establish their relevance to ‘real people’. Fortunately, they are ideally placed to do so
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Does Brexit affect how universities should be teaching journalism?
Many people felt that journalism failed them in its coverage of the EU referendum, writes Martin Buckley. Should things be done differently in the lecture hall?
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Brexit vote highlights the importance of flexible learning
Degree attainment was a strong indicator of pro-Remain views, stressing the importance of making HE available to all who want it, writes Peter Horrocks
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Brexit: UK warned not to miss out on research ‘Champions League’
UK alone could not match ERC prestige, senior Swiss research figure tells MPs
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US election: education level of voters seen as key factor
Like the UK’s referendum on the EU, the US presidential race looks set to split the population between graduates and non-graduates
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NUS president pledges to ‘reconnect’ union with campus grass roots
Malia Bouattia says she has ‘absolutely heard the arguments’ of students who voted to disaffiliate
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Wellcome Trust to launch open access research site
Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust will be able to publish their findings ahead of peer review on a new digital platform from this autumn
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Turn off email, put your phone into airplane mode, and write
Steven Vaughan has been experimenting with a new way of writing, and despite the odd bit of cheating, it’s going very well