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Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

Book of the week: Apps are taking us places, fast – but do we always want to go? John Gilbey considers the value of rapidly changing tech

By John Gilbey

27 July

Protecting EU links ‘very high priority’ for UK research chief

27 July

Free education protesters past and present

How much has higher education changed?

27 July

How Romania's plagiarism hunter took on the PM

27 July

PhD student predicts who will die next in Game of Thrones

By Matthew Reisz

28 July

Asia's top-ranked university appoints new president

By Jack Grove

28 July

How Romania's plagiarism hunter took on the PM

By David Matthews

27 July

I love my administrators! And there should be no 'conflict' with academics

There is no 'hard divide between academics and administrators', writes Charles Knight in response to criticisms of academic university staff

By Charles Knight

28 July

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

Book of the week: Apps are taking us places, fast – but do we always want to go? John Gilbey considers the value of rapidly changing tech

By John Gilbey

27 July

Protecting EU links ‘very high priority’ for UK research chief

27 July

How much has higher education changed?

27 July

How Romania's plagiarism hunter took on the PM

27 July

Latin America University Rankings 2017: results out now

Brazil retains the crown in Times Higher Education’s second annual list of the top universities in the region as higher education institutions face up to the need to change

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UK’s student migration data ‘potentially misleading’

Watchdog says data ‘does not bear the weight that is put on it in public debate’

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Taiwan told to sharpen research and ethics to battle Asian rivals

By Holly Else

25 July

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New world of work: are universities preparing students for future careers?

How can higher education prepare students for jobs that do not even exist yet? asks Christina Slade

By Christina Slade

27 July

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PhD student predicts who will die next in Game of Thrones

‘Network science’ may help to predict the plot twists in iconic television series, researcher claims

By Matthew Reisz

28 July

Asia's top-ranked university appoints new president

National University of Singapore promotes provost Tan Eng Chye

By Jack Grove

28 July

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How Romania's plagiarism hunter took on the PM

Investigative journalist Emilia Sercan defied threats to uncover high-level ring of fraudulent PhDs

How much has higher education changed?

Ellie Bothwell goes through the archives from 45 to five years ago and discovers some recurring themes

27 July

Long-distance learning: building a university on a South Pacific island

Bernard Leeman, anti-apartheid fighter and peripatetic champion of low-cost rural tertiary education, describes the circuitous route he took to Vanuatu

Academic writing: how to stay afloat

Early career academics can be left to sink or swim when navigating the choppy waters of learning scholarly writing. Helen Sword says a more formal, communal approach can help everyone, especially women

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Opinion

By Charles Knight

I love my administrators! And there should be no 'conflict' with academics

There is no 'hard divide between academics and administrators', writes Charles Knight in response to criticisms of academic university staff

28 July

Who should have the final say on vice-chancellors’ pay?

Amid fresh criticism of executive remuneration, perhaps universities need to rethink the issue of vice-chancellors’ salaries

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Swept up in scholarly symposia

It's surprising how enjoyable a trip on the conference carousel can be

Open access monograph dash could lead us off a cliff

By Marilyn Deegan

27 July

New world of work: are universities preparing students for future careers?

By Christina Slade

27 July

I quit! Why I am leaving UK academia

By Michael Edwards

25 July

Letting in disadvantaged students with lower grades doesn’t always help

By Huw Owen

26 July

Policy watch

Student recruitment needs culture classes

Financial issues are not the central barriers to increased university access in Canada. It is cultural factors that must be tackled, say Ross Finne, Athur Sweetman and Richard Mueller

World insight

‘Flat-pack’ students need help with isolation

Providing support for learners on low-cost ‘flat-pack degrees’ is key to expanding international higher education in Australia and worldwide, says Merlin Crossley

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Brexit: what are the options for the UK on research?

There are several stumbling blocks on the way to negotiating access to European research funding, writes Holly Else

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

By John Gilbey

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

Book of the week: Apps are taking us places, fast – but do we always want to go? John Gilbey considers the value of rapidly changing tech

27 July

Improving How Universities Teach Science: Lessons from the Science Education Initiative, by Carl Wieman

Even scientists may be unmoved by evidence on how to make teaching better, finds Jennifer Rohn

Transmaterial Next: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine Our Future, by Blaine Brownell

Richard Joyner enjoys a tour of the novel substances that might give tomorrow its form, including a substance seven times less dense than air

Mixed Messages: Norms and Social Control around Teen Sex and Pregnancy, by Stefanie Mollborn

‘Nice’ kids are still being told not to do ‘it’, setting off a dangerous dissembling, says Angelia Wilson

Complicit Sisters: Gender and Women’s Issues across North-South Divides, by Sara de Jong

A study of female NGO workers and the migrants they interact with examines the relationship in all its complexity, says Emma Rees

Shelf Life

Graphic explorations of the (physical) state we’re in

Two books use graphic formats to address the big questions in physics and the gaps in our knowledge, cross-examining Einstein et al and musing over love handles and farts. Matthew Reisz writes

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What are you reading? – 27 July 2017

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