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Female under-representation in spin-offs is likely to be attributable to the usual suspects: gender bias, lack of appropriate support and limited access to the right networks, says Simonetta Manfredi

University of Waterloo president says modern universities must combine research and creativity 

Bill Galvin, chief executive of the Universities Superannuation Scheme, tackles some of the ‘misunderstandings’ about the fund’s approach to its valuation

Documents published on the Office for Students’ website have raised further questions about its independence, accountability and powers, says Gill Evans

Unprecedented spending on university estates are transforming campuses and cities more generally, explain the authors of a new book on contemporary design in higher education

Sophie Inge speaks to two sets of job-sharers about the pros and cons of dividing an academic role

The Pensions Regulator, not universities, is the driving force behind proposed cuts due to its nonsensical approach to discount rates, argue David Bailey and John Clancy

Better-resourced universities are the key to achieving the government’s ambition for a knowledge-based economy, says David Mba

Having well-resourced and world-leading university research is crucial if the UK is to succeed as a knowledge economy, says Michael Drew

University says Thomas Jessell violated university policies and values

Tributes paid to pioneering cardiac researcher

There are very few outlets for women to work together against unhelpful concepts that hold back female progression in academia, says Elisabeth Julie Vargo

Accusations are a ‘cruel and empty provocation against dedicated scientist’, say sector leaders

The university strikes are a militant campaign that attacks the very heart of learning as the union propaganda makes clear, says John Marenbon

With state intervention back in vogue, and publishers’ profit margins still sky-high, journals could be the next monopoly to come under scrutiny

Stanford business professor with an illustrious alumni ‘family’ remembered

Radical ideas required to cut research grant waste

The internet impedes human interactions, warps civilised discourse and aggravates misunderstandings, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto 

Czech presidential candidate Jiří Drahoš is among prestigious line-up of speakers for event on research excellence 

Pioneer of innovative methods of landscape archaeology remembered

University of Colorado Boulder master’s programme will ‘bring the laboratory experience’ to students at home

We answer some of your questions about the forthcoming Times Higher Education Innovation Rankings

UCSB string theorist who won $3 million prize remembered

The UK Border Agency’s treatment of non-EU musicians is undermining vital cultural exchange, says Michael Edwards

Australian academic accused of copying statements from Wikipedia and other journal articles without attribution in court

The ‘leaky pipeline’ metaphor for the lack of women at senior levels of academia can demotivate those whose professional paths meander, says Aileen Fyfe

Successful trials of a robot tutor should encourage universities to ask which roles can never be replaced by artificial intelligence, argues Robert MacIntosh

Attending the criminal trial of a dissident scholar brings home the inhumanity of Turkey’s academic purge, says Masi Noor, and underlines the importance of showing solidarity

Tributes paid to first female politics professor in any part of Ireland

THE survey reveals how work pressures shape researchers’ decisions around relationships and family

Institutions will need to disclose full details of all those earning more than £150,000 under the regulator’s proposed new rule

The architectural historian on the mediocrity of postwar crematoria design and why we need to talk more openly about death

Times Higher Education’s first major global survey of university staff views on work-life balance finds academics feeling stressed and underpaid, and struggling to fit time for personal relationships and family around their ever-growing workloads. Ellie Bothwell reports

Books offer an experience, evidence trail and egalitarianism that could never be digitised, say Al Martinich and Tom Palaima

Simon Baker, THE’s data editor, charts some of the different strengths and weaknesses among Asian countries’ universities

Just as the ‘little red dot’ city state has made an indelible mark on the global stage, president of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Subra Suresh examines how his institution has garnered attention

China’s Southern University of Science and Technology puts an overriding emphasis on knitting together talented people from all regions and levels, says its president, Shiyi Chen

Futao Huang considers the five nations trying to compete with China, Asia’s higher education superpower

China has put itself atop the rankings and set the model that others seek to emulate, says Phil Baty

Ellie Bothwell compares two Beijing universities, Tsinghua and Peking, to explain the former’s rise

Singapore has the continent’s best university for the third year in a row but China’s stars are in the ascendant, says Ellie Bothwell

The broad trends in AI may be unstoppable, but we must find better ways of directing and regulating them, argues Toronto’s Mark Kingwell

Universities must do more to tackle the class privilege that is still rife in the ranks of academia, says Louise Morley

Scholar says universities must take responsibility for ‘polemic debate’, while other experts reject idea that cap on international recruitment is needed

Explore the latest offering in our teaching-focused rankings portfolio, says THE’s data and analytics director Duncan Ross 

The 2018 regional rankings use Times Higher Education’s tried and tested methodology to scrutinise Asia

University of Paris-Saclay will incorporate ethical considerations into research on emerging technologies 

‘Trained observers’ can help selection committees stamp out implicit bias against women, Europe’s biggest highest education institutions say

Tributes paid to the ‘voice of McGill’

Tributes paid to neuroscientist who identified role of glial cells in several serious diseases

Career of prolific technology and development expert took him from Nairobi to Harvard

Leading expert in cosmic rays remembered

Interventions such as women-only fellowships have improved gender balance – but some professoriates are still more than 85 per cent male

Got some last minute scholarly Christmas shopping to do? Glen Wright has got your back

Traditional literary approaches meet the latest stylometric analysis in determining who wrote the Bard’s plays

Academic whose research interests were shaped by an African childhood remembered

£10 million gift will help fund what will become one of Europe’s largest centres for interdisciplinary learning and research

Figures also show that female teaching staff earned between 95 and 98 per cent of their male counterparts

Debate follows news that two UK universities are struggling with projects

Academic experts on China say the state may now issue demands in collaborations with Western universities