Higher education

Do people fear the menace of 'transient academics', or is it just more scholarly infighting? Gerard Kelly writes

Sally Tomlinson has seen much during her many doctoral examinations, from supervisors left literally holding the baby to the first Bedouin woman in Jordan to gain a PhD

High-profile literary critic once described as “Australia’s most distinguished woman” was the first female chancellor of the University of Sydney

Book of the week: Academics need to hit the brakes and work to change the system they’re in, says Emma Rees

Justification for the teaching excellence framework in the 2016 HE White Paper is flawed, says Dorothy Bishop

Does flexible working benefit universities as well as individuals? Jack Grove reports

Higher education institutions should not fear failure when it comes to new technology, says Kerri Morgan

Success as a Knowledge Economy is the culmination of several unwelcome trends in higher education, writes Joanna Williams 

Nick Hillman picks the higher education White Paper apart, but warns there is still plenty of distance to run before legislation

THE editor John Gill assesses whether the White Paper does enough to answer critics of the government's HE policies

Pressure to publish can lead to unethical behaviour, writes Athene Donald

Key figures from the university world respond to the higher education White Paper, Success as a Knowledge Economy

Gendered dichotomies distort our perceptions of aloneness in the academy, writes Aniko Horvath

Valuable nuggets await in a master-apprentice Q&A but be ready to dig, says Andrew Robinson

Scholars should cheer up and learn to take the rough with the smooth, says John Tregoning

Money for universities will be spread ever more thinly unless enrolment numbers are brought under control, says Warren Bebbington

David Tollerton takes issue with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis' message to university leaders

What do the world’s six most reputed universities have in common? Duncan Ross looks at the figures

Two-day strike over 'insulting' 1.1 per cent pay rise offer may affect student exams and marking

Book of the week: A spirited palaeobotanist’s memoir splices flora with friendship and family, says Cait MacPhee

A working-class scholar, or ‘straddler’, explains the academy’s often unspoken rules, says Eve Worth

Janet Beer says radical action is needed to increase the number of women working at higher levels in universities

Offspring of lone parents are an overlooked group in widening participation, study suggests

Paul Blackmore explains the challenges posed by his Leadership Foundation report

Fictional depictions of professoriate reinforce negative public perceptions, US study concludes

Katherine Firth on why you should approach texts less like a Victorian maiden and more like a pirate hero

Working in our local areas is much more than charity for higher education institutions, says Stuart Laing

Kieran Fenby-Hulse asks whether being gay limits opportunities for researchers

New statutory duties designed to stop the rise of extremism on campus are making students and staff apprehensive, AUA conference hears

Debating the details of research assessment should not obscure wider debates around ethics and legitimacy, says Alis Oancea

US analysis questions link between Twitter success and scholarly merit, raising doubts about the use of social media data in altmetrics

In the first of a series of blogs based on the opening seminar of the Centre for Global Higher Education, Paul Ashwin takes a fresh look at a thorny concept

Deborah Netolicky thought that the submission of her PhD was the end, but now she realises that it is just a beginning

Jeremy Singer on a manifesto for maximum impact and insight based on addressing real-world problems in multidisciplinary teams

Book of the week: the former universities minister reviews James Axtell's account of the institutions that educate the US elite

Stateside efforts to widen higher education’s global reach are fragmented and conflicting, says Philip Wainwright

Memoir of scholar who fought for recognition will strike a chord with many women, says June Purvis

Times Higher Education World University Rankings data reveal the 20 best institutions based on private-sector investment per academic

Students tend to nominate entertaining or ‘sexy’ academics, says paper

Study suggests there may be long-term benefits from publishing, but critics warn of ‘too much, too soon’

Global higher education programmes should respond to our unstable world, says Martin Hall

Cait MacPhee on back-of-envelope calculations and other tools to assess value and assumptions

Scholars seeking to make a difference are let in on the secrets of engagement, says Richard Joyner

Rachel Bowlby traces how a school of literary thought and its major figures hit the big time

Andrew Blake on a study facing up to the reality of working in the arts

Martin Paul believes that the advantages of teaching some courses in English far outweigh the disadvantages for students in the Netherlands

Disadvantaged are under-represented in degree study because they are ‘simply not smart enough’, says researcher

Hong Kong scholar says students are embarking on postgraduate degrees to 'delay' unemployment 

We need a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in higher education, argues Terry Young

Any tables must reflect the nuances of the region, says Mohamed Salem

Matthew Reisz meets the researcher challenging universities on their tendency to try and fit square pegs into round holes

Giulia Miller on a study of anti-Semitism in the academy and the struggle of displaced scholars

Academics need to recognise that a linear career progression is no longer the norm, says William Locke

What does the class of 1952 have to say to the class of 2016? asks Richard Roberts

Researcher argues that a sector-wide approach to supporting refugees would be more effective than individual schemes

Persian migrants’ tales illuminate the attitudes and culture of Regency era, says Shahidha Bari

Joanna Williams on a controversial academic’s interpretation of where the boundaries lie

Depictions of conferences as being dull and exhausting make it ‘almost impossible’ to imagine them as places of intellectual engagement, scholar warns

Role of lecturers who play a key part in teaching and administration should get more recognition, according to study

Sutton Trust urges higher education institutions to devote 10 per cent of outreach budgets to evaluating effectiveness