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TEF results: Times Higher Education metrics ranking

Looking at performance based on the core metrics underpinning the TEF starts to shine a light on where context was key in determining a university's final result

By Simon Baker

22 June

Stop celebrating the TEF results – your hypocrisy is galling!

23 June

TEF: ‘meaningless’ results ‘devoid of credibility’, says v-c

22 June

Teaching excellence framework (TEF) results 2017

22 June

Insider knowledge: homegrown solutions for academic refugees

By Matthew Reisz

25 June

UK ‘beats competitors’ for international student satisfaction

By Ellie Bothwell

24 June

Academics ‘need new rights to challenge university governance’

By David Matthews

23 June

Academic Ramblings: a dull and painful affair

Looking for a surefire way to alleviate the boredom of an exam board meeting? Bingo.

By Academic Ramblings

25 June

TEF results: Times Higher Education metrics ranking

Looking at performance based on the core metrics underpinning the TEF starts to shine a light on where context was key in determining a university's final result

By Simon Baker

22 June

Stop celebrating the TEF results – your hypocrisy is galling!

23 June

TEF: ‘meaningless’ results ‘devoid of credibility’, says v-c

22 June

Teaching excellence framework (TEF) results 2017

22 June

THE Europe University Rankings 2017: powers behind the throne

Figures reveal the UK to be less of a pacesetter than generally thought and the Netherlands to be a real knockout. Simon Baker investigates who might be continental kings after Brexit

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TEF: what makes a ‘gold’ university?

Comparing the TEF with metrics such as the NSS begins to show how university location may have played a role in the final results

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Video: Peter Mathieson on how universities can measure impact

16 June

Research Excellence Summit

3 July - 5 July 2017

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Career advice: how to deal with criticism

Coping with negative feedback can be difficult, but it is a crucial part of being an academic, say Kevin O’Gorman and Robert MacIntosh

By Robert MacIntosh

22 June

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News

Insider knowledge: homegrown solutions for academic refugees

Universities are developing imaginative ways of addressing the educational needs and ambitions of Syrians

By Matthew Reisz

25 June

UK ‘beats competitors’ for international student satisfaction

Overseas students in UK are more likely to recommend studying in the country than those in other nations

By Ellie Bothwell

24 June

People protest on February 1, 2017 in Berkeley, California. A speech by controversial Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos, who was scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley, was cancelled after protesters and police engaged in violent skirmishes

Academics ‘need new rights to challenge university governance’

After incidents on US campuses where students have called for scholars’ dismissal, professor sees need to update concept of academic freedom

A taste of Asian fusion Down Under: why record numbers of overseas students are choosing Australia

International education is Australia’s third-largest export industry, worth more than A$20 billion, and is set for further growth driven by current geopolitics. Jack Grove reports on how international recruitment is playing its part in Australia’s embrace of the Asian century

22 June

‘The Left needs to listen better, and learn a little bit of political strategy from the Right’

Texas-born scholar Angelia Wilson talks to Matthew Reisz about the changing face of political studies, Trump and the Christian Right, and a Bible Belt road trip

How to teach reason properly

To defend the values of reason from political attack we need to be more discriminating about the claims made in its name, says John Hendry

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Academic Ramblings: a dull and painful affair

Looking for a surefire way to alleviate the boredom of an exam board meeting? Bingo.

25 June

Why do we still assume that senior engineering researchers will be male?

On International Women in Engineering Day, Alice Larkin decries the slow progress on improving gender balance in her discipline

Stop celebrating the TEF results – your hypocrisy is galling!

Emilie Murphy calls on those who challenged the teaching excellence framework methodology in the past to stop sharing their university ratings with pride

The TEF is not perfect but let’s focus on the gains

By Chris Husbands

22 June

TEF: vice-chancellors’ lack of focus on teaching ‘sold students and staff short’

By Anthony Seldon

22 June

A head start with mindfulness

By Craig Hassed

22 June

Teaching excellence framework (TEF): higher education sector reaction

By Chris Parr

22 June

Policy watch

Australian HE reforms need further vetting

Demand-driven funding in higher education but not vocational education will distort both provision and student choice, says Peter Noonan

World insight

Study at home, not abroad: the universities building local relationships

Sara Ladrón de Guevara and Anthony Monaco on why institutions should collaborate with their neighbours to develop ideas and solve local problems

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TEF: how much attention will students pay to the results?

The stamp of government approval means TEF ratings will carry significant weight, writes Chris Havergal

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 Jane O'Grady

Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus, by Laura Kipnis

A polemic against the new McCarthyism in US universities catches Jane O’Grady’s attention

22 June

Leningrad 1941-42: Morality in a City under Siege, by Sergey Yarov

A. W. Purdue chews over a grim account of how civilised nature crumbles when starvation looms

Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken, by Clarence Glacken

Robert J. Mayhew finds the pioneering environmental thinker’s meditations on population, resources and ecology more relevant than ever

City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic and the First Police Chief of Paris, by Holly Tucker

Sharon Wheeler delights in casting a made-for-TV 17th-century tale laced with sex and the dark arts

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by John Martin 1852

Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England, c.1550-1850, by H. G. Cocks

Peter J. Smith lauds a powerful study of the relationship between homoerotic desire and anxieties about social, religious, cultural and even apocalyptic collapse

Shelf Life

Books interview: Sarah Eltantawi

The professor of comparative religion and author of on log-cabin Lincoln, the Koran and Islam’s political movements

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What are you reading? – 22 June 2017

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