Expenses claim
Lincoln Allison remembers when senior academics and vice-chancellors led a relatively ascetic existence and compares it with today when many v-cs are paid salaries similar to those of chief...
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Success, past and present
I read with interest the letter from Paul Whiteley on the Higher Education Funding Council for England research funding allocations, and offer the following observations (“Funding allocations: a...
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Calling off Israel event is setback for freedom
The decision of the University of Southampton to cancel a conference that was to have been held later this month under the auspices of its school of law amounts to a massive setback for academic...
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The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments, by Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth
Thomas Docherty on a study of the academy today and working conditions
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Why journals should not forget their past
Scientific publishing has a noble history of tolerating tiny profits. We need a bit more of that spirit today, suggests Aileen Fyfe
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Digital aids: students reveal ‘benefits’ of technology
High-tech resources are yet to transform the nature of university learning, and often it is the ‘mundane’ use of technologies that aid study
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Why bombs cannot strip Gaza of intellectual life
Writer and scholar Atef Abu Saif tells John Elmes how life goes on despite death from above
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Philosophy’s forgotten women
Project Vox aims to illuminate key female thinkers absent from the discipline’s history
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Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping, by Willy Wo-Lap Lam
Jonathan Mirsky on the undistinguished qualities of a president who wants China to ‘learn from Chairman Mao’
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Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh, by Stanley Wells
The first act in an entertaining study of gifted stage performers is the most powerful, says Lisa Hopkins
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Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2015 results
High scores for campus universities in our annual poll
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Stefan Grimm inquest: new policies may not have prevented suicide
A hearing into the ‘needless’ death of a professor at Imperial College London has ruled that he took his own life by asphyxiating himself
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Half of scholars say workloads heavier in £9K fees era
THE’s Best University Workplace Survey 2015 reveals concerns over class sizes and other issues in the wake of higher tuition fees
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Interview: the “philosopher president” of Uruguay
Martin McQuillan meets José Mujica to discuss education and philosophy
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Drugs on campus: from psychedelia to responsible research
Ross Aikins considers the evolution of substance use and how universities shape the debate