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18 July

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Gender equality charter may head to India

New report calls for Athena SWAN awards to be rolled out in India

By Holly Else

24 July

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Gender equality charter may head to India

New report calls for Athena SWAN awards to be rolled out in India

By Holly Else

24 July

Students avoid ‘different’ classmates for group discussions

Research finds undergraduates ‘self-sort’ by gender and ethnicity for group work

By Jack Grove

23 July

Chi Onwurah: research funding in regions could ‘rebalance economy’

Shadow science minister acknowledges challenge of combining excellence with ‘place’ in supporting R&D

By Holly Else

22 July

REF 2021: Hefce proposes fix for portability concerns

By John Elmes

21 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

Graduate outcomes data has ‘no impact’ on student choices, US survey finds

By Ellie Bothwell

21 July

Dozens of scholars arrested and 300 sacked in Turkey purge

By Jack Grove

21 July

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

By John Morgan

20 July

Generational and class gaps in attitudes on fees, polling finds

By John Morgan

20 July

Graduates face ‘midlife tax crisis’ on loans

By Jack Grove

20 July

Sharp increase in first-class degrees triggers standards debate

By Simon Baker

20 July

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

By Iain Martin

A graduate tax would bring transparency to university funding

Flexible degrees and a clearer public contribution to their cost would command widespread support, says Iain Martin

20 July

Are academics paid too much?

As the pay of BBC on-air talent is revealed, one academic comes clean about his salary

‘Unfair’ student loan system must be reviewed

Sally Hunt says new London Economics analysis of loan repayments has exposed the lie that student funding is progressive

Four principles that should underpin TEF metrics

By John Tregoning

21 July

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Latin America University Rankings 2017: the weight of tradition

By Liz Reisberg

20 July

Lord Adonis is dead wrong: tuition fees should stay

By Bill Rammell

20 July

Subject-level TEF gets frosty reception from the HE sector

By Chris Parr

20 July

Policy watch

Mr Blonde shoots again? Some bark, some bite as Johnson invokes Reservoir Dogs

Andy Westwood gives his verdict on Jo Johnson's big HE speech

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

The newsroom blog

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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