Don Porter, 1938-2020
Tributes paid to ‘an extremely significant figure’ in the assessment of academic English
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The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Higher Education since the Second World War, by Peter Mandler
David Willetts welcomes a bold account of how the battle between democracy and meritocracy has transformed higher education in the UK
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Hindsight’s hoard: What academics most wish they had known earlier
The acquisition of wisdom about life and career can be just as long and challenging a journey as any research project. Luckily, many wheels have already been invented. Here, seven academics offer the...
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Locked-down students had less time in class but felt more engaged
Annual survey of UK students also reveals significant increase in students’ caring responsibilities and paid work
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Interview with Claudio Saunt
Scholar of Native American history shortlisted for two major non-fiction prizes discusses why the US needs a ‘reckoning’ with indigenous dispossession
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Gospel dupe: the Harvard scholar seduced by Jesus’ ‘wife’
There are lessons for academia in the scandal of the pornographer, the fake papyrus and a theologian’s fall, says author
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Government response to Augar still expected with spending review
English sector awaits details of rebalancing towards further education, along with HE policy statement and campus free speech bill
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Elite universities urged to investigate graduate gender pay gap
Figures suggest that graduates of UK’s highly selective institutions and specialists have widest differences in pay
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Biden faces struggle to reboot foreign student recruitment in US
President-elect will have to do more than reverse Trump’s executive orders to rebuild the reputation of US higher education, say experts
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The week in higher education – 12 November 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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12 November 2020 digital edition
In hindsight: what scholars wish they had known earlier
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World Reputation Rankings 2020 digital edition
The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings are created using the world’s largest invitation-only academic opinion survey
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Liberal arts colleges must rediscover their purpose: to improve the world
If these unique institutions can become more inclusive, issue-oriented and multidisciplinary, their graduates will be equipped to tackle the 21st century’s multiple crises, say Steven Volk and Beth...
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It is time to reconnect the two arms of academic communication
As the pandemic reshapes both conferencing and publishing, melding talks and papers makes a lot of sense, says Richard Oliver