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Academics ‘face higher mental health risk’ than other professions

Lack of job security, limited support from management and weight of work-related demands on time among risk factors

By Holly Else

22 August

Cambridge University Press makes U-turn in China censorship row

21 August

Tell students to read tabloids ‘to help heal educational divide’

21 August

All that remains: life as a forensic anthropologist

17 August

US academics form counter-movement to 'drive racists off campus'

By Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed

22 August

Academics ‘face higher mental health risk’ than other professions

By Holly Else

22 August

Qatar campus leaders confident of surviving diplomatic crisis

By Ellie Bothwell

22 August

Ethnic segregation: a tough problem to solve in UK universities

Parts of the UK higher education system are far less diverse than you might think

By Michael Donnelly

19 August

Academics ‘face higher mental health risk’ than other professions

Lack of job security, limited support from management and weight of work-related demands on time among risk factors

By Holly Else

22 August

Cambridge University Press makes U-turn in China censorship row

21 August

Tell students to read tabloids ‘to help heal educational divide’

21 August

All that remains: life as a forensic anthropologist

17 August

Female leadership advances slowly in world's top universities

Analysis of THE World University Rankings data shows gender gap for top jobs has narrowed further

International and postgraduate fees survey 2017

Complete University Guide’s international and postgraduate fees survey for 2017 also suggests Brexit caution on rises in some areas

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US academics form counter-movement to 'drive racists off campus'

Campus Antifascist Network plans self-defence training for scholars who may be challenged by white supremacists

By Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed

22 August

Academics ‘face higher mental health risk’ than other professions

Lack of job security, limited support from management and weight of work-related demands on time among risk factors

By Holly Else

22 August

Qatar campus leaders confident of surviving diplomatic crisis

Branch outpost heads confident for long-term future of institutions despite blockade

By Ellie Bothwell

22 August

Universities ‘should be chastened by bigotry among well-educated’

By Ellie Bothwell

22 August

Cambridge University Press makes U-turn in China censorship row

By Holly Else

21 August

Tell students to read tabloids ‘to help heal educational divide’

By David Matthews

21 August

Tolerance, employability and mobility on new ACU chief’s agenda

By Matthew Reisz

21 August

CUP row ‘shows need for new approach to Chinese censors’

By Holly Else

21 August

Africa ‘must embrace online learning’ to meet demand for degrees

By Chris Parr

20 August

Berkeley chancellor to focus on funding and rebuilding community

By Ellie Bothwell

19 August

US universities ban white nationalist Richard Spencer from campus

By John Morgan

18 August

Clearing pool shrinks as UK universities make offers early

By Holly Else

18 August

University financial health check 2017: future prospects?

UK universities face uncertainty over the impact of Brexit and the TEF, the future for tuition fees and a pensions deficit. Which institutions have the financial clout and diversified portfolios to survive? Simon Baker runs the numbers

17 August

All that remains: life as a forensic anthropologist

Dame Sue Black’s pioneering work has taken her to war zones and the aftermath of natural disasters. She explains the scientific rigour required in the field

Idol imaginings: academics reveal the childhood heroes who inspired their careers

Many an academic will be dragged to the cinema this summer by bored offspring determined to see the latest superhero film. But what kind of childhood heroes did scholars themselves have? Here, five reveal who and what inspired their career choices

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Opinion

By Michael Donnelly

Ethnic segregation: a tough problem to solve in UK universities

Parts of the UK higher education system are far less diverse than you might think

19 August

Can international education enhance graduate employment in China?

In the last two decades the number of mainland students going abroad to study has increased more than twentyfold, but what does this mean for employment, asks Ka Ho Mok

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Is abolishing tuition fees regressive? It depends how it’s done

Replacing England’s tuition fee system with a cheaper and fairer alternative is not as difficult as many claim, says Andrew Adonis

Is self-promotion hurting scholarship?

By Brooke Erin Duffy

17 August

A-level results: higher education sector responds

By Max Sandford

17 August

Any port in a storm

By Christopher Bigsby

17 August

Universities are rising from ruins of war

By Dlawer Ala'Aldeen

17 August

Policy watch

On v-c pay, clarity begins at home

Remuneration committees should pay less attention to other institutions when setting their leaders’ pay, says Nick Hillman

World insight

How the holidays can play havoc with international partnerships

Yusra Mouzughi on the challenges of doing business when universities take a break

The newsroom blog

CUP and China: how should journals deal with censorship?

Threats over content available in China reveal difficult line academic community must tread

By Simon Baker

Times Higher Education v-c pay survey 2017

In our annual survey of vice-chancellors’ pay, which reveals double-digit hikes for some and more modest rises for others, Simon Baker examines how remuneration committees make their decisions amid calls for greater transparency over the ‘arbitrary’ nature of salary increases

15 June

Book Reviews

Book of the week

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American Niceness: A Cultural History, by Carrie Tirado Bramen

Book of the week: Behind a veneer of amiability, Randy Malamud finds discord, cruelty and a ‘cultural charade’

17 August

Don’t Be Fooled: A Philosophy of Common Sense, by Jan Bransen

Language is key to making sense of people, finds Martin Cohen, but beware words’ flexible meanings

About Method: Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically, by Jutta Schickore

A study of snakebite gives a good overview of the development of the written scientific method, says Geoffrey Cantor

Living with the Living Dead: The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse, by Greg Garrett

Enduring popularity of flesh-eating monsters is a response to real threats, says Marcus Leaning

Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History, by Joseph North

To properly appreciate a work of art we must judge it, not simply adhere to the modern paradigm of explaining it in context, contends Gary Day

Shelf Life

Birds, bees, trees and other queer causes

Matthew Reisz wonders how nature’s polymorphous perversity will win support for the political cause of sexual equality

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