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What are the hot research areas that might spark the next big bang?

We examine citation data to get an idea of the most exciting and potentially ground-breaking research topics

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25 May

Quarter of UK academics ‘bullied over scholarly views’

25 May

Academics ‘should not sign over research copyright to publishers’

25 May

Who should speak for academics over the future of publishing?

25 May

One in three UK universities going backwards on female professorships

By Jack Grove

25 May

Quarter of UK academics ‘bullied over scholarly views’

By Jack Grove

25 May

Academics ‘should not sign over research copyright to publishers’

By John Elmes

25 May

Opinion

It’s not essay mills that are doing the grinding

Eliminating cheating services, even if it were possible, would do nothing to address students’ and universities’ lack of interest in learning, says Stuart Macdonald

By Stuart Macdonald

25 May

What are the hot research areas that might spark the next big bang?

We examine citation data to get an idea of the most exciting and potentially ground-breaking research topics

By THE reporters

25 May

Quarter of UK academics ‘bullied over scholarly views’

25 May

Academics ‘should not sign over research copyright to publishers’

25 May

Who should speak for academics over the future of publishing?

25 May

These maps could change how we understand the role of the world’s top universities

Ahead of his address at Going Global 2017, Phil Baty looks at the relationship between the world’s best universities and their place in the world

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Which countries and universities are leading on AI research?

Elsevier data show that China produces vast quantities of papers in field but lags on quality

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University researchers key ‘in 40% of top inventions since 1950s’

By Ellie Bothwell

21 May

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Who should speak for academics over the future of publishing?

Learned societies used to be seen as the guardians of academic prestige. They should act on that moral authority and reclaim their oversight of peer review, says Aileen Fyfe

By Aileen Fyfe

25 May

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One in three UK universities going backwards on female professorships

New data show proportion of professors who are women has declined at some institutions

By Jack Grove

25 May

Quarter of UK academics ‘bullied over scholarly views’

UCU survey finds British-based researchers perceive lesser protection for academic freedom compared with continental peers

By Jack Grove

25 May

Academics ‘should not sign over research copyright to publishers’

Report urges academy to ‘embrace’ opportunities for wider research dissemination

What are the hot research areas that might spark the next big bang?

We examine citation data to get an idea of the most exciting and potentially ground-breaking research topics

25 May

Free thinking is a community service

Recent moves in university admissions wrongly conflate instrumentalism with selfishness, says Alexander Zubatov, who argues that cultivating the self is a virtue

Disability on Campus: the challenges faced and change needed

Five academics talk about the issues associated with various disabilities and what should be done to improve support

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It’s not essay mills that are doing the grinding

Eliminating cheating services, even if it were possible, would do nothing to address students’ and universities’ lack of interest in learning, says Stuart Macdonald

25 May

No vacation from citation

Having just added the 10,000th reference to his personal bibliographic file, David Zeitlyn reflects on the joys and annoyances of avoiding looking like a fool

Who should speak for academics over the future of publishing?

Learned societies used to be seen as the guardians of academic prestige. They should act on that moral authority and reclaim their oversight of peer review, says Aileen Fyfe

Going Global 2017: live coverage

23 May

Academics in ivory towers? It’s time to change the record

By James Georgalakis

24 May

Labour: ‘We will scrap tuition fees for students starting university this autumn’

By Gordon Marsden

22 May

UK higher education has ‘shrugged its shoulders’ at race and gender discrimination

By Say Burgin

20 May

Lib Dems: ‘Brexit undermines universities at every turn’

Sarah Olney, the Lib Dem education spokeswoman, on her party’s vision for higher education

Australia’s budget measures will decapitate vocational education – again

Removing the cap on subsidised sub-bachelor’s places in public universities will pull the rug out from under technical and further education providers offering similar qualifications, says Gavin Moodie

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Professors’ portraits show resolve to tackle gender deficit

Striking visual display in King’s College London corridor symbolises how higher education is taking professorial problem seriously

By Simon Baker

Times Higher Education Pay Survey 2017

Our annual analysis shows that academic pay is still falling in real terms and that equality is still an issue with regard to gender and ethnicity

4 May

Book Reviews

Book of the week

By Howard Segal

A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education, by David F. Labaree

Book of the week: Howard Segal on an ‘appreciation’ of an unwieldy creature that is the envy of the world

25 May

Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World, by Keith Devlin

Tony Mann follows a scholar’s journey to get to the root of a game-changing mathematician

The Dawn of Christianity: People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles, by Robert C. Knapp

Robert A. Segal on an overview of religion in the Roman Empire that emphasises the similarities between three belief systems

An Anthropology of Landscape: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary, by Christopher Tilley and Kate Cameron-Daum

A corner of England makes its mark on those who leave foot, paw and hoof prints, writes Philip Hoare

The Idea of the PhD: The Doctorate in the Twenty-First-Century Imagination, by Frances Kelly

Tara Brabazon on an argument that the doctorate is undergoing change

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Books interview: CN Lester

The author of Trans Like Me on finding herself in books, on moving beyond pigeonholing, and making time for Moomins

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