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English fee cut, grant plan would give ‘more control’ to aid STEM

Chancellor appears to adopt IFS blueprint, but elements of reported plans bring ‘real concerns’ for universities

By John Morgan

19 September

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New Zealand ‘top in world’ for preparing students for future

19 September

'Civic glue' of universities needed more than ever

19 September

Do UK universities provide value for money?

18 September

New Zealand ‘top in world’ for preparing students for future

By Ellie Bothwell

19 September

English fee cut, grant plan would give ‘more control’ to aid STEM

By John Morgan

19 September

Elsevier takes on Wikipedia with science definitions service

By Matthew Reisz

18 September

'Civic glue' of universities needed more than ever

Politicians should stop attacking universities and recognise their growing role in fostering economic prosperity and community cohesion, says Hakim Yadi

By Hakim Yadi

19 September

English fee cut, grant plan would give ‘more control’ to aid STEM

Chancellor appears to adopt IFS blueprint, but elements of reported plans bring ‘real concerns’ for universities

By John Morgan

19 September

New Zealand ‘top in world’ for preparing students for future

19 September

'Civic glue' of universities needed more than ever

19 September

Do UK universities provide value for money?

18 September

World University Rankings 2018: the key measures marking Asia’s progress

Simon Baker, THE’s data editor, analyses the areas of academic activity that are central to the progress Asian universities are making

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Are rising fees bankrolling growth in vice-chancellors’ salaries?

THE pay data since 2010-11 show pay of UK leaders is going up faster than that of rank-and-file academics, but the reasons are less clear

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World Academic Summit: Let students take phones into exams, says Harvard professor

By Chris Havergal

6 September

US Student Success Forum

26 September - 27 September 2017

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Researchers complain of bias against women and ethnic minorities

Many researchers also ‘harbour unrealistic expectations’ about academic careers

By Holly Else

16 September

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New Zealand ‘top in world’ for preparing students for future

Canada and Finland also score highly in research assessing the effectiveness of education systems in 35 economies

By Ellie Bothwell

19 September

English fee cut, grant plan would give ‘more control’ to aid STEM

Chancellor appears to adopt IFS blueprint, but elements of reported plans bring ‘real concerns’ for universities

By John Morgan

19 September

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Elsevier takes on Wikipedia with science definitions service

Publisher argues Topics platform will provide ‘breadth, depth and currency of knowledge’, and remove the need to leave its website

How will Brexit shape the European research landscape?

Holly Else considers how the withdrawal of one of the biggest players in European research could change science on the Continent, and likely national winners and losers

14 September

V-c pay: Are vice-chancellors worth their salaries?

Last week, the UK’s universities minister threatened to fine institutions that pay their v-cs more than the prime minister without a strong justification. We present three perspectives on the debate

Poisonous science: the dark side of the lab

The bullying and subsequent suicide of a talented Ivy League scientist exposes ugly truths about the cruelty and dysfunction at the heart of academic science

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'Civic glue' of universities needed more than ever

Politicians should stop attacking universities and recognise their growing role in fostering economic prosperity and community cohesion, says Hakim Yadi

19 September

Do UK universities provide value for money?

As the Sunday Times reports proposals to cut fees, Sir Keith Burnett asks how we measure 'value for money' in education?

National Postdoc Appreciation Week: 10 must-read articles for postdocs

For National Postdoc Appreciation Week, we take a look through our archive of advice and information for early career researchers

The moral panic over student cheating must end

By Bruce Macfarlane

14 September

Trump is right: Confederate memorials should stay

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto

14 September

Science and Technology Select Committee: devoid of women, devoid of legitimacy

By Athene Donald

13 September

Feedback is a two-way street. So why does the NSS only look one way?

By Naomi Winstone

14 September

Fair access is about to be set back significantly and universities must act

The loss of Supporting Professionalism in Admissions would be bad news for students, says Les Ebdon

International strategy for universities: 10 keys to success

Christopher Cripps offers a French perspective on how universities can develop their position in the international academic community

Adonis v Willetts: a fiery debate that didn’t disappoint

Chris Parr picks through some of the highlights from the tuition fees debate between David Willetts and Andrew Adonis

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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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought, by Dennis C. Rasmussen

Book of the week: How far did two thinkers sway each other during a 26-year fellowship? Biancamaria Fontana writes

14 September

The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart, by Mitchell Cohen

An ambitious study that sets musical history within the political context of the birth of the modern state never manages to sing, says Mark Berry

Group of women enters Museum of Modern Art in New York

Gendering Modernism: A Historical Reappraisal of the Canon, by Maria Bucur

Tracey Warr on a broad survey that outlines women’s exclusion from an artistic movement

A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World, by Erika Rappaport

A. W. Purdue on a study that views the drink as the centrepiece of a new international economy

Victorian Pain, by Rachel Ablow

The discomforts felt and described by five writers form the focus of this literary study, writes Lennard Davis

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What are you reading? – 14 September 2017

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