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Universities ‘generate £95 billion for UK economy’

Sector’s economic contribution increased by 15 per cent in three years, finds Oxford Economics analysis for UUK

By Ellie Bothwell

16 October

Anti-tuition fees demonstrators at Westminster

Treasury Committee inquiry: tackling higher education's 'knottiest problems'

16 October

Top 10 universities for producing Nobel prizewinners 2017

13 October

In response: changes to US rules on campus sexual assault benefit nobody

16 October

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How could Macron's 'European universities' work?

By David Matthews

15 October

Universities ‘generate £95 billion for UK economy’

By Ellie Bothwell

16 October

Apprentice to v-c: Queen Mary boss’ unlikely route to the top

By Jack Grove

15 October

Opinion

Guidance suggests TEF is now about government priorities, not teaching

Paul Ashwin sees reasons for concern in the government's latest teaching excellence framework guidelines

By Paul Ashwin

16 October

Universities ‘generate £95 billion for UK economy’

Sector’s economic contribution increased by 15 per cent in three years, finds Oxford Economics analysis for UUK

By Ellie Bothwell

16 October

Treasury Committee inquiry: tackling higher education's 'knottiest problems'

16 October

Top 10 universities for producing Nobel prizewinners 2017

13 October

In response: changes to US rules on campus sexual assault benefit nobody

16 October

Rankings

US College Rankings 2018 results: a game changer for American higher education

Phil Baty on why the results of the 2018 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education US College Rankings, published on THE today, matter so much

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Data

Data bite: who is doing the most Brexit research?

Figures from Elsevier's Scopus database also reveal which scholarship on the topic has been the most cited

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Summits

Video: Sir Paul Nurse on the virtues of gentle anarchy in research

13 October

Asia Universities Summit

5 February - 7 February 2018

Shenzhen, China

Careers

Educators have a responsibility to help students plan for life after graduation

Josiah Marineau on the importance of giving a purpose to students’ passion

By Josiah Marineau

14 October

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News

How could Macron's 'European universities' work?

A ‘European Campus’ has already been created by French, Swiss and German universities

By David Matthews

15 October

Universities ‘generate £95 billion for UK economy’

Sector’s economic contribution increased by 15 per cent in three years, finds Oxford Economics analysis for UUK

By Ellie Bothwell

16 October

Apprentice to v-c: Queen Mary boss’ unlikely route to the top

Colin Bailey on a gamble to attend university that nearly backfired, and the institution that is academia’s ‘best-kept secret’

By Jack Grove

15 October

England’s KEF: will it be a ‘patent-counting’ extra reporting burden?

By Rachael Pells

14 October

MPs to hold inquiry into England's student loans

By John Morgan

14 October

Apple CEO Tim Cook launches Oxford hub for entrepreneurship

By Rachael Pells

13 October

UK universities need Brexit research answers ‘within six weeks’

By Jack Grove

13 October

Athena SWAN funding link under scrutiny in discrimination row

By Ellie Bothwell

12 October

‘I understand anger over v-c pay’, says new Cambridge head

By Jack Grove

12 October

English university funding ‘up in the air’ as review looms

By Holly Else

12 October

Jo Johnson plans for KEF to measure knowledge exchange

By Rachael Pells

12 October

THE ‘Table of Tables’ 2018: Glasgow makes biggest gains

By Ellie Bothwell

11 October

Features

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Leading a double life: academics with extraordinary second careers

Academic work is typically all-consuming, but some scholars still manage to combine some eye-catching sidelines with their day jobs. Here, five tell their stories

12 October

Are graduates good value for money?

With degrees now necessary for entry into more jobs than ever before, John Morgan considers the economic arguments for expanding higher education

How to be happy: academics advise on what brings joy at work

From neuroscience to philosophy and economics, seven scholars relate what work in their disciplines reveals about the search for #HEhappiness

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Opinion

By Paul Ashwin

Guidance suggests TEF is now about government priorities, not teaching

Paul Ashwin sees reasons for concern in the government's latest teaching excellence framework guidelines

16 October

Educators have a responsibility to help students plan for life after graduation

Josiah Marineau on the importance of giving a purpose to students’ passion

The Nobels need to overcome their three-body problem

Newer prizes that reward scientific teams are fairer and more representative, says Martin Rees

Value-added working is less taxing

By Mark Reed

12 October

In response: changes to US rules on campus sexual assault benefit nobody

By Yvette Russell

16 October

Scientists must push to end the reefer madness

By Aymen Idris

12 October

Mature and part-time students: the real crisis of the high fees era

By Peter Horrocks

12 October

Policy watch

Treasury Committee inquiry: tackling higher education's 'knottiest problems'

Helen Carasso on the inconsistencies of England's fees system, ahead of her appearance at the Treasury Committee's investigation into student loan systems

World insight

In response: changes to US rules on campus sexual assault benefit nobody

Proposed reforms in the US are based on the incorrect assumption that student concern is overstated and hysterical, writes Yvette Russell

The newsroom blog

Is ‘peak degree’ a myth?

Despite fears of saturation, an ever-growing army of graduates could just counter – rather than heighten – the threat of machines taking all our jobs

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Academics’ top tips for publishing success

Is your resolution for the new academic year to publish more? Here, 16 scholars give advice on pitching, editing and writing – and dealing with negative peer reviews

28 September

Book Reviews

Book of the week

By Elizabeth Cobbs

The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848, by Jonathan Israel

Book of the week: Elizabeth Cobbs praises a history that argues persuasively against US exceptionalism

12 October

Milan, Italy, demonstration of neo-fascist group Casa Pound against the European Community

Sacrifice: My Life in a Fascist Militia, by Alessandro Orsini

A study of far-right fringe groups in Italy is too forgiving and uncritical, says R. J. B. Bosworth

Austin, Texas, USA - November 19, 2016: A group of 'White Lives Matter' demonstrators protest just south of the Capitol grounds

Making Sense of the Alt-Right, by George Hawley

Matthew Feldman praises a sharp and clear-sighted examination of the new extreme forms of right-wing politics in the US

Books interview: Kristen Ghodsee

The scholar of East European studies and author of Red Hangover on reading for escape, quoting Lenin at the Model United Nations and understanding everyday life ‘behind the Iron Curtain’

Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death, by Adrian Owen

An unsettling study of patients in comas reveals that consciousness endures, says Shane O’Mara

Shelf Life

Books interview: Kristen Ghodsee

The scholar of East European studies and author of Red Hangover on reading for escape, quoting Lenin at the Model United Nations and understanding everyday life ‘behind the Iron Curtain’

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What are you reading? – 12 October 2017

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