Higher education

Focus on skills and job readiness 'disengages' academics from issue, says HEA head

Women in academia may be losing out salary-wise because they are more focused on tasks that may go unrewarded, a study suggests

Positive discrimination helps students more than it hinders them, find Dennis Epple and Lowell Taylor

Berkeley academic also tells THE event that government initiatives have little influence on the quality of universities

Web 3.0 could revolutionise the way higher education is delivered, but will it be used as a force for good, asks Martin Hall

If the government won’t demonstrate the value and importance of university, then vice-chancellors need to step up and do it, say Paul Woodgates and Mike Boxall

Our experts reveal how they seek to choose the right person for the job when faced with a pile of flawless CVs and glowing references

Pam Tatlow on the recent parliamentary debate of the Higher Education Bill

A more international approach will boost higher education in the region, write Marco Zago and Raul Machado-Neto

A more tech-savvy approach to student recruitment could save institutions more than just time, says Marguerite Dennis

Bairbre Redmond considers the importance of international collaboration ahead of the BRICS & Emerging Economies Universities Summit

Senior academics and university administrators offer their top tips on how to ask that awkward question at the end of a job interview

In the first of a new series of articles, leading academics and university administrators will share tips on how to get ahead in higher education. Here, those involved in hiring explain how to handle a Skype interview

Donald Trump is to become the next US president, but what does his election mean for academia?

'Nazi-era methods' targeting academia unacceptable, says Luxembourg's foreign minister

Assessment, timetables and module weighting could be altered to reduce pressures for students who travel a long way to university each day, says study author

The university professor and former political prisoner compares his own iconoclastic impulses to Rhodes Must Fall movement

Badly rated teachers more likely to distrust data, Israeli study finds

Student artists at Staffordshire University have transformed academic research on graduate debt into a full-length comic

Book of the week: Universities pay lip service to minorities while maintaining the status quo, says Kalwant Bhopal

Spread of student ratings is part of trend that poses a threat to academic autonomy and diversity, says Coventry University academic 

A teaching collaboration between two very different institutions worked better than either could have hoped, write John Simon and Thomas Schutte

Higher education institutions can and should do more to influence education at a secondary school level, says Edward Peck

As universities tighten attendance policies, an education professor has argued that scholars should be more prepared to accept absence

Co-author of a major UK study of female advancement at Pakistan’s universities recounts positive experience of such institutions

Book of the week: Working through university crushes US students. Laurie Taylor fears the UK will share their pain

In this Q&A, Jukka Kola, rector of the University of Helsinki, gives his take on the changing face of university leadership 

The Nordic state, known for its liberal social policies, is the latest country to announce plans for a ban on burkas in its education system

Higher education institutions must not be measured by their economic contribution alone, writes John Gill

Former anti-Mafia prosecutor Raffaele Cantone will investigate cronyism and nepotism in Italy’s higher education system next year

Academic attainment of disadvantaged students can be improved if they can decide how they are assessed, study claims

A lack of strategy and autonomy are to blame for French universities’ failure to keep pace on transnational education, study suggests

A lack of advice on access and support is a key reason why disabled students are less likely to leave their home country, campaigners say

Post-coup crackdown has led to a huge number of requests for help, say charities for at-risk scholars

Institutions accused of promoting ‘inaccurate’ depictions of themselves via social media

The prospect of new grammar schools on the horizon raises big questions for HE, writes Nick Hillman

Young scholars tell it like it is but is knowledge of replaceability a bar to change? asks Finn Mackay

THE’s director of data and analytics Duncan Ross reflects on the work underpinning the 2016-2017 World University Rankings

But teaching champion forced to forgo as much as £1.5 million of hoped-for income

Jonathan Grant and Alexandra Pollitt look at how discrete choice modelling might be able to work out what type of impact is most valued

Unconscious bias training for those on promotion and recruitment panels may help tackle deficit of senior BME staff, says Leadership Foundation study

Supervisors explain how to help students keep their research on track

A new condensed master’s will be offered by NMITE among other curriculum innovations

Book of the week: ‘Helicopters’ or ‘bystanders’? Your folks’ behaviour can govern more than grades, says Hazel Christie

Sector bodies and institutions respond to latest NSS results

Higher education needs to embrace the positives of AI, not just look at the negatives, says Rose Luckin

Greek researchers from US institutions hit out at controversial plan drawn up by University of Texas economist

The Sainsbury review represents a huge opportunity for UK universities, while institutions across the world can reap the rewards of vocational courses, says Martin Hall

Lord Stern's review of the research excellence framework was published today. This is how UK higher education is responding...

Jo Beall assesses how recent changes to higher education and research compare with countries the UK could see as key trading partners post-Brexit

The Turkish government's actions in relation to higher education are understandable, argue Sedat Gumus and Bekir Gur

The TEF will divide universities into 'institutional sheep and goats' and then starve the goats, writes Dorothy Bishop on the eve of the HE Bill's second reading

Some believe the momentous referendum result may harm the UK’s ability to compete for the world’s best PhD students

Focus on teaching in proposed framework ignores its primary role as extra quality assurance tool, claims researcher

Andrew Robinson on an eloquent exposition of what it means to be a modern university teacher

Book of the week: Second-wave highs, Caitlin Moran and rape culture surface in a work of mixed genres, says Emma Rees

Max Lu, the first Chinese academic to lead a UK university, says that increasing the institution's links with major firms from his homeland will be a priority

We have reached a key moment in the development of the region's higher education sector, says Ismail Badat

Germany and the UK well represented on Reuters’ inaugural Europe innovation ranking

There are problems with the selection of teaching excellence framework metrics, argues Paul Ashwin