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TEF: Russell Group universities to appeal results

Liverpool, Durham and York join Southampton in bidding to overturn ratings

By Jack Grove

27 June

Modern languages: four reforms to reclaim the future of our discipline

26 June

China: new ‘champions for globalisation’ could claim US crown

26 June

Teaching excellence framework (TEF) results 2017

22 June

British vice-chancellor ‘forced out of Australia’ by visa reforms

By Chris Havergal

27 June

Academic concern over plan to inspect airline passengers’ books

By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed

27 June

Student bribery and cheating ‘endemic’ in Ukraine

By David Matthews

27 June

TEF may well end up harming the very programmes it seeks to help

The 'simplistic metric-driven ranking' runs the real risk of stifling the growth it seeks to stimulate, says Gavin Schwartz-Leeper

By Gavin Schwartz-Leeper

27 June

TEF: Russell Group universities to appeal results

Liverpool, Durham and York join Southampton in bidding to overturn ratings

By Jack Grove

27 June

Modern languages: four reforms to reclaim the future of our discipline

26 June

China: new ‘champions for globalisation’ could claim US crown

26 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 results: Times Higher Education metrics ranking

All the universities in the TEF ranked by main award and metrics

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16 June

Research Excellence Summit

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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

British vice-chancellor ‘forced out of Australia’ by visa reforms

Former Heriot-Watt principal Steve Chapman says he will have to leave Edith Cowan University in 2020

By Chris Havergal

27 June

Academic concern over plan to inspect airline passengers’ books

US proposals spark worry for researchers reading Arabic or foreign language texts, or works critical of the Trump administration

By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed

27 June

Student bribery and cheating ‘endemic’ in Ukraine

Over-expansion of higher education, ‘useless’ compulsory modules and wider culture of graft blamed

By David Matthews

27 June

TEF: Russell Group universities to appeal results

By Jack Grove

27 June

Camelot provides the leadership model for new Hereford university

By Jack Grove

26 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

Universities ‘must link with other sectors’ in Brexit lobbying

By Ellie Bothwell

23 June

Thelmas 2017 results announced

By Chris Havergal

22 June

TEF: LSE, Southampton and Liverpool get bronze

By Jack Grove

22 June

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

By Jack Grove

22 June

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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Opinion

By Gavin Schwartz-Leeper

TEF may well end up harming the very programmes it seeks to help

The 'simplistic metric-driven ranking' runs the real risk of stifling the growth it seeks to stimulate, says Gavin Schwartz-Leeper

27 June

TEF: an eccentric, potentially misleading ranking that’s bad for social mobility

Headteacher Chris Ramsey is in favour of a teaching excellence framework – but not necessarily the one we have got

Examination board season: truly, it is a dull and painful affair

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Modern languages: four reforms to reclaim the future of our discipline

By Stephen Hutchings

26 June

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

By Alice Larkin

23 June

Stop celebrating the TEF results – your hypocrisy is galling!

By Emilie Murphy

23 June

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

By Chris Husbands

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

China: new ‘champions for globalisation’ could claim US crown

The political changes of 2017 will benefit China, and influence the future of international student mobility, says Marguerite Dennis

The newsroom blog

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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