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YouGov poll for THE: public opposition to £9K fees outweighs support

But polling also finds balance of public opinion is against Labour policy and tuition fees rated low among voting priorities

By John Morgan

20 July

Lord Adonis is dead wrong: tuition fees should stay

20 July

Graduates face ‘midlife tax crisis’ on loans

20 July

Generational and class gaps in attitudes on fees, polling finds

20 July

Jo Johnson: student contracts could include ‘legal remedies’

By Jack Grove

20 July

YouGov poll for THE: public opposition to £9K fees outweighs support

By John Morgan

20 July

Call to end ‘segregation’ with mixed-ability universities in UK

By John Morgan

20 July

Latin America University Rankings 2017: the weight of tradition

To better prepare graduates for today’s world, Latin American higher education must evolve, but, says Liz Reisberg, it is hidebound and resistant to change

By Liz Reisberg

20 July

YouGov poll for THE: public opposition to £9K fees outweighs support

But polling also finds balance of public opinion is against Labour policy and tuition fees rated low among voting priorities

By John Morgan

20 July

Lord Adonis is dead wrong: tuition fees should stay

20 July

Graduates face ‘midlife tax crisis’ on loans

20 July

Generational and class gaps in attitudes on fees, polling finds

20 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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Sharp increase in first-class degrees triggers standards debate

New analysis of Hesa data shows that at least a quarter of students get a first at a third of UK universities

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Video: Caroline McMillen on establishing a young and dynamic university

18 July

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Career advice: how to mark for the first time

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20 July

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Jo Johnson arrives at 10 Downing Street, London, England

Jo Johnson: student contracts could include ‘legal remedies’

Minister also warns Labour plan to abolish fees would mean ‘Reservoir Dogs ending’ for universities

By Jack Grove

20 July

Anti-tuition fees demonstrators at Westminster

YouGov poll for THE: public opposition to £9K fees outweighs support

But polling also finds balance of public opinion is against Labour policy and tuition fees rated low among voting priorities

By John Morgan

20 July

Call to end ‘segregation’ with mixed-ability universities in UK

Middlesex v-c proposes ‘comprehensive element’ and end to ‘hyper-selective’ admissions in Hepi paper

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

20 July

Inequality: are hyper-selective universities making it worse?

John Morgan considers the hierarchies of prestige in higher education, the insights offered by big data research, and whether mixed-ability universities are the answer

Universities need to plan for a dark future if academics prefer their own Plan B

Conditions that undermine the notion of scholarly vocation – relentless work, ubiquitous bureaucracy – can cause academics acute distress and spur them to quit, says Ruth Barcan

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Opinion

Liz Reisberg, international higher education consultant

By Liz Reisberg

Latin America University Rankings 2017: the weight of tradition

To better prepare graduates for today’s world, Latin American higher education must evolve, but, says Liz Reisberg, it is hidebound and resistant to change

20 July

Lord Adonis is dead wrong: tuition fees should stay

Knee-jerk, uncosted and damaging calls to abolish fees must be resisted, says Bill Rammell

Subject-level TEF gets frosty reception from the HE sector

Chris Parr takes a look at proposals to introduce TEF ratings in 35 different subject areas

A graduate tax would bring transparency to university funding

By Iain Martin

20 July

Carlos Iván Moreno Arellano, University of Guadalajara

Latin America University Rankings 2017: progress on two fronts

By Carlos Iván Moreno Arellano

20 July

J. Salvador Peralta, University of West Georgia

Latin America University Rankings 2017: an unwelcomed advance in Chile

By J. Salvador Peralta

20 July

How much do you really understand about the peer-review process?

By Martin Eve

19 July

Policy watch

Fine pencils are no use in the UK’s big-picture fees debate

University leaders dismayed by factual holes in the revived debate over tuition fees should respond with some broad brush strokes of their own, says Andy Westwood

World insight

Michael Parkin illustration (20 July 2017)

Optimism about US international student numbers is misplaced

US universities’ efforts to remain positive won’t wash. Trump is a disaster for recruitment, say Philip Altbach and Hans de Wit

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Why aren’t we debating all the issues in higher education?

As the row over fees reignites and mutates into a debate over the very purpose of universities, silence reigns on the issue of hyper-selectivity

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

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Times Higher Education summer reads 2017 - part one

Scholars and senior sector figures reveal the books they’ll be reading over the summer break – for work or pleasure or both

19 July

Times Higher Education summer reads 2017 - part two

Scholars and senior sector figures reveal the books they’ll be reading over the summer break – for work or pleasure or both – in part two of our annual round-up of holiday reads

Times Higher Education summer reads 2017 - part one

Scholars and senior sector figures reveal the books they’ll be reading over the summer break – for work or pleasure or both

Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-garde, by Lise Jaillant

It was cheap reprints that took modernism from niche to popular, says Rebecca Bowler

The New Russian Book: A Graphic Cultural History, by Birgitte Beck Pristed

What’s in a book cover? Grace Lees-Maffei examines a history of graphic design in Russian fiction

Shelf Life

Books interview: Brent Hayes Edwards

The professor of English and author of Epistrophies discusses the literary works that sing out to him

What are you reading?

What are you reading? – 13 July 2017

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