Chuka Umunna pledges action on lack of black professors
Labour’s Chuka Umunna wants to “hold universities’ feet to the fire” on the “unacceptable lack of diversity in their leadership and their senior staff”
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Mental health problems 'affect work of two-thirds of HE staff'
Nearly two-thirds of higher education staff say their work performance has suffered as a result of mental health problems, according to a survey
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Scottish Labour hints at ‘no fees’ policy
Shadow education secretary tells conference of party’s ‘direction of travel’ ahead of 2016 elections
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Vince Cable attempts to woo Indian student market
Vince Cable is announcing a new set of measures designed to stem the fall in Indian students choosing to study in the UK
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‘Bellogate’ engulfs UCL email system
University College London has apologised after its email system was hacked, leaving students with thousands of spam emails in their inboxes.
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Eugenics at UCL: We inherited Galton
Earlier this year a debate at University College London asked Why Isn’t My Professor Black?Michael Arthur, the UCL provost, was asked by a student during a panel session why the institution...
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THE podcast: 9-15 October 2014 issue review
Download the podcastThe future of the Quality Assurance Agency, this week’s THE books section, and our regular Careers Intelligence slot are covered in the latest Times Higher Education issue review...
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9 October 2014
It’s all in the mix - Are the social sciences in need of a shake-up?
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World in brief - 9 October 2014
United StatesSit-in ends after improvements promisedA five-day sit-in at Colgate University in New York, organised to protest against the institution’s lack of diversity and its alleged poor...
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Anna Craft, 1961-2014
An internationally acclaimed authority on the role of creativity in education has died
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News in brief - 9 October 2014
Postgraduate studyUK survey verdict: mostly happyFour out of five postgraduate students are happy with their course, a new survey indicates. Some 83 per cent of the 67,580 people polled for the...
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Grant winners - 9 October 2014
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Alexander BeltonInstitution: Lancaster UniversityValue: £84,895Quantum random walks and quasi-free quantum stochastic calculusAward winner...
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Oxbridge union for London
With seven first-class universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-2015 concentrated in London, more than in any other city in the world, is it not the time for Oxbridge...
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A funny queasy feeling
Are those of us who savour the irony of a British professor’s feeling the need to write “in a personal capacity” about academic freedom (Thomas Docherty, “Jobsworths and squatters”, Books, 2 October...