Les Ebdon pulls out of event attended by ‘loan-day lender’
England’s university access tsar boycotted a conference on student welfare after a controversial lending firm was also invited to speak
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Edinburgh and other research-intensives lose out in funding reshuffle
A major reorganisation of quality-related funding in Scotland will take money away from the “ancient” universities and hand it to newer institutions
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9 fascinating images from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
First scientific journal reaches 350 year milestone
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Gender bias ‘rife’ in history departments, says report
Conditions for female academics in some university history departments “smack still of the 1970s”, according to a new report
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Overseas fee income grows again as share of total
The UK’s universities increased their income from overseas students once again last year, with their fee payments rising to 12.7 per cent of total income.
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Vince Cable: loss of polytechnics was a mistake
The conversion of polytechnics into universities has been lamented as a “poor decision” by the business secretary
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Augmented reality in higher education: five tips to get started
Matthew Ramirez demystifies the use of AR in university study
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THE podcast: Election Hustings for Higher Education 2015 special
Download the podcastThe general election takes centre stage in this week’s Times Higher Education issue review podcast, which focuses on the recent Election Hustings for Higher Education.The weekly...
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5 March 2015
From the top - Vice-chancellors on what it takes to lead
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The week in higher education - 5 March 2015
University lecturers could face tougher quality assessments to address a growing number of undergraduate complaints, The Sunday Times reported on 1 March. The results of the assessments – which will...
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Q&A with Cherie Booth QC
We speak to the human rights barrister, chancellor of the Asian University for Women and visiting professor in law at St Mary’s University, Twickenham
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Has China’s maverick SUSTC broken away, or been broken?
South University of Science and Technology of China wanted to buck the system. Did it succeed? asks Hong Bing
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World in brief - 5 March 2015
United StatesStudents report being pressured into non-consensual sexAlmost 10 per cent of female and 4 per cent of male undergraduates say they have “been pressured or forced into sexual contact...
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Diabolical insinuations
I trust that it was entirely accidental that the review of Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education (Books, 26 February) was followed by the review of...
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Just like that...
The day the Association of Business Schools’ most recent ranking of journals was released, I woke to find that some of my publications had been transformed, as if by academic alchemy, from 3* lead to...