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Firm steps up collaboration with university as world’s biggest tech companies race to harness quantum physics
Universities cannot wash their hands of responsibility for who is booked to speak on their premises, says Michael Marshall
US, Australia show 'overly generous' rules on for-profits are dangerous, say researchers
Overleaf’s John Hammersley on what drove his doctorate and transition from universities to industry
Too often universities are not speaking early enough with private accommodation providers on what types of provision are needed, a conference hears
Weiming Education Group, the largest provider of private schools in China, is branching out into the US
Academic casts doubt on universities’ spin-off success and impact on SMEs
Times Higher Education World University Rankings data reveal the 20 best institutions based on private-sector investment per academic
Partnership of five universities has so far helped new businesses raise more than £1bn
Comments come amid debate over whether to permit for-profit institutions to operate in the country
We talk to the research council CEO about pharmaceutical drugs modelling and a childhood interest in studying animal remains
Meanwhile, Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance and Chinese medicine college among those allocated publicly funded places
Allowing private sector to flourish is best route to vastly increase access to ‘good, not great’ higher education, BRICS and Emerging Economies Universities Summit hears
Universities were once urged to ape the governance models of the Square Mile, but big business could learn from some collegiate practices, suggests Malcolm Gillies
US-owned institution becomes Arden University
We talk to the lawyer, academic, former pro-chancellor and founder of a private university in Nigeria
Complexity of government initiatives to help commercialise university research under scrutiny
Tribunal judge notes Raj Kumaran’s ‘unblemished disciplinary record’
'Uncertainties' following takeover of the private university mean it will not take part in talks to form group, says Regent's head
An investigation into a for-profit college by the UK’s quality watchdog has found that a fifth of students in a sample failed to show up to any classes at all, despite receiving public funding
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Last week, the UK’s universities minister threatened to fine institutions that pay their v-cs more than the prime minister without a strong justification. We present three perspectives on the debate
We need to call off the witch-hunt and trust in the capacity of our students to learn, says Bruce Macfarlane
The bullying and subsequent suicide of a talented Ivy League scientist exposes ugly truths about the cruelty and dysfunction at the heart of academic science
No tax inspector or police officer can claim rights over what they write for their jobs, so why should academics, asks Gabriel Egan
Find the best universities in the United States through Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings data