Data

Data from the UK, US and Australia suggest science doctorates continue to dominate expansion, but why?

Durham, Imperial College and St Andrews all had a smaller share of first years from state schools in 2017-18 than Cambridge

Record rate applying among English 18-year-olds counters demographics but applications to lower-tariff institutions still struggling

Ucas figures for UK and EU students suggest that some higher tariff universities have seen dents in intakes this year

Report from Clarivate Analytics’ Institute for Scientific Information suggests more nuanced ways of analysing research impact

Ucas data show that, at three institutions, three-quarters of all offers made to applicants were unconditional

Analysis of research co-authored with city region shows more than half of papers now involve links with mainland

Data on open access trends since 2000 show some countries embracing model have also boosted collaboration 

First statistics from Hesa on extent of zero-hours contracts show 3 per cent of ‘typical’ workforce have them, but figure is far higher for ‘atypical’ staff

Data for English universities seem to show government metric based on salaries is skewed by location

Latest Hesa data also reveal that part-time enrolments are now below 500,000

Using student population figures puts results of Global University Employability Ranking in context

Data for age profile of academic workforces across the continent show wide variation between countries

However, latest data from EU suggests eastern European nations having more success in keeping gap narrow

Patent citation data suggest that economies such as South Korea, where firms have capacity to drive research, are making most progress 

With one more year to go until the end of a decade that is transforming universities worldwide, Times Higher Education looks at the trends that have shaped the past 12 months

Office for Students head says ‘spiralling grade inflation’ must be tackled after latest figures show universities with most explaining to do on issue

Figures in Elsevier report on AI research landscape are ‘a call to action’

Ucas analysis also reveals that such offer-making is even more widespread when ‘conditional unconditional’ offers are included 

Analysis of rankings data suggests Australia has made ground and without an apparent cost to research quality

More than 40 per cent of firsts last year were ‘unexplained’, finds UUK-commissioned report

Latest edition of Clarivate analysis suggests nation is on upward trajectory

But Sam Gyimah bases comments on data he accepts are only a ‘snapshot’ of what graduates go on to earn

Data analysis by THE looks at three disciplines where the rise in firsts has been particularly high

Figures have ‘alarming’ implications for equality in US academia, says researcher who analysed professoriate’s background

Latest data from Education at a Glance suggest taking education to a higher level brings much bigger income returns in some nations 

Data from the past four years of the World University Rankings suggest performance on industry collaboration is converging

Four years of data from THE’s world rankings show that the UK appears to have stalled on internationalisation compared with some rivals

Latest data from OECD raises questions about growth of per-student spending in some countries, but by no means all nations

Data from the Office for Students appear to show vocational courses have bigger shares of such students

Half of list of 100 fastest-rising institutions in terms of contribution to the Nature Index is made up of Chinese universities and institutes

Analysis reveals that, when medicine is taken out of the equation, collaborations are thin on the ground

Data on international collaboration show cross-border authorship share falling over recent years