Vice-chancellor/principal

Education minister says top-down reforms are needed to ensure better regulation of standards

University faces criticism for ‘property developer’ strategy in wake of Oxford’s £750 million issuing

Critics of his initiative to make the University of Buckingham drugs-free are missing the point about the power of education, says Anthony Seldon

With the consultation now closed, Philip Augar’s review of English post-18 education must begin the hard work of devising substantial but cost-effective proposals, says Andy Westwood 

Gathering intellectual antagonists under the same roof contains the incendiary electricity of controversy and redirects it to generate sparks of new knowledge, says Carel Stolker

Academics from North and South Korea are exploring how reunification could work, says Incheon National University president

The demands of the job take their toll, but rigorous application of the smell test can limit the damage, say Stephen Joel Trachtenberg and Francine Trachtenberg

The new remit for the Higher Education Standards Panel flags up various regulatory issues that the minister wants to see addressed, says Gavin Moodie

That the role of higher education is so often misunderstood or misportrayed, even in institutions, means much good work goes unremarked

Former president of the Czech Academy of Sciences warns of online dirty tricks that may have cost him country’s presidency

Tributes paid to a university leader who ‘always believed firmly in what women could do’

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Whichever parties form the new Italian government, higher education and research are unlikely to be priorities, says Davide Donina

Submissions invited across 18 categories

Sajid Javid’s career shows the power of UK higher education – he should work to ensure that more young people can follow in his footsteps, says John Latham

The event will host the launch of the 2018 Times Higher Education Emerging Economies University Rankings

Looking at past trends, Rahul Choudaha predicts the motivations and expectations of the next wave of global students

Canadian institution comes under fire over decision to hand award to David Suzuki, a critic of province’s energy industry

New Zealand institution’s switch could end confusion with similarly named institutions around world

HKUST head to lead Saudi Arabian university from September

Provost of Hungary’s Central European University tells conference that autonomy is in jeopardy across continent

François Ortalo-Magné says executive programmes help students ‘look at the world differently’

Magdeburg university head reveals scale of threats he received after controversy over right-wing AfD speakers

Better recognition of the wider social benefits of both teaching and research would help universities regain public goodwill, says Nick Petford 

Higher education institutions are vital not just to research and economic growth but also to ensuring the health of liberal democracy on the continent

Universities cannot become Gardens of Eden without losing their key purpose, writes Hanna Holborn Gray

Speakers at THE summit worry that structural funds have become ‘part of the problem’ for new member states

Combining egalitarian access, prized vocational education and elite research universities, the ‘Swiss paradox’ may offer international lessons

If the legislative requirements to respond to gender pay gaps are perceived as weak, the moral imperative for universities to act is strong, argues Anthony Forster 

Sam Gyimah tells MPs that for universities ‘to carry on as if we are still in 1965 is not acceptable’

Law firm says legal claim can now progress after 1,000 people joined class action

Education committee chair Rob Halfon says ‘sanctions’ should be applied where numbers of disadvantaged students stall or decline

Analysts are optimistic that the expert panel convened to reassess the USS deficit could deliver significant change, although others are less convinced

The Office for Students’ arrival marks a new era of higher education regulation but it can also learn much from its predecessor's successes, argues Tim Melville-Ross

Ten years into the programme, German universities remain focused on traditional markers of success, say Andreas Knie and Dagmar Simon

The tabloid campaign to save the Open University has forced ministers to review a crisis precipitated by their party’s higher education policy, writes John Gill

The framing of the Peter Horrocks row misses the bigger issue underlying the conflict and the opportunity to sketch out a vibrant future for this important national institution, say Mark Brandon, Joe Smith and Martin Weller

Concerns that France’s flagship research body is too large and unwieldy to move with the modern times are unfounded, says former president Alain Fuchs

Vice-chancellor stands down after union members passed no confidence vote

University strategising in the days before JoJo, BoJo and Brexit was more back-patting than visionary, but what universities need now is a plan for survival, says John Cater 

The curricular dominance of popular music may sell tickets but belies the point of a musical education, says Sam Richards

Faculties without borders are the key to turning multidisciplinarity into more than a buzzword, says Duncan Ivison

Michael Ignatieff says higher education will lose battle against authoritarianism if scholars’ rights are seen only as ‘a corporate privilege’

Pleas by Conservative backbenchers for an intervention to help the OU ignore the fact that they recently made it harder to assist under-pressure institutions, says Pam Tatlow

Peter Williams concerned by requirement for English universities to deliver ‘successful outcomes’ for ‘all’ students

Growing discontent among University and College Union members about leaders’ handling of negotiations

As England’s new higher education regulator the Office for Students begins this week, its deputy chair Martin Coleman explains how it will balance institutional autonomy and public accountability

Academics at British institutions make one in four successful bids in 2017 funding round, underlining risks of Brexit

Universities need to raise funds from potentially mercurial financial markets without losing sight of their long-term missions. It’s a delicate balance

Rigid, top-down tie-ups will do nothing to foster quality or European identity, says Jan Palmowski

Average remuneration for university heads in Queensland in 2017 stands at twice the equivalent UK figure

A newcomer in the Oxford-Cambridge innovation corridor will reshape our understanding of what higher education is for, says Lynette Ryals

Peter Horrocks faces backlash over claim that academics ‘should be bloody well teaching’

Qualified actuary and academic Nick Foster says the case for university pension reform cannot be ignored despite a brilliant anti-cuts PR campaign

Elite Japanese universities are renowned for their strength in research, but does their reputation also reflect quality in teaching? Times Higher Education’s student-focused Japan University Rankings and student experience survey offer some fascinating insights

Sport is one of the ways that universities are helping to transform the lives of young people from socially disadvantaged communities, says Geoff Thompson

Edge Hill vice-chancellor John Cater explains why the new non-Russell Group medical schools are so vital

New South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s first budget confirmed funding for hundreds of thousands of students to be exempted from tuition fees, writes Martin Hall 

The apparent theft of exam papers in Papua New Guinea suggests to John Warren that we should all be more transparent over marking mishaps   

Casualisation and treating academics like feckless children who can’t be trusted have also taken their toll, says Sarah Colvin