Introducing a "student premium" to encourage more teenagers from disadvantaged families to attend university may lead to cuts in support for mature or part-time students, sector figures have warned.
Shocked by price rises, UK students are looking carefully at US universities. Elizabeth Gibney writes
Lowering university offers to reflect social deprivation may be misguided because decisions are being based on unreliable data, the head of the UK's admissions body has warned.
"Human beings are storytelling animals," sociologist Jeffrey Alexander tells us halfway through this treatise on the nature of trauma in Western societies. The type of stories we tell ourselves and...
This is a wonderful book. It conveys complex ideas in an accessible and convincing way. Perhaps I was easy to convince, being one of those who fall on the pro hate-speech laws side of the debate to...
State security blankets fail to make us safe and do many of us harm, argues Irma van der Ploeg
Radicalism characteristically runs in cycles, and after the post-1991 quiescence, the pursuit of democracy has re-emerged in the Arab Spring, in Tibet, Rangoon and Moscow, in the Occupy Wall Street...
Halfway through reading this monograph I instinctively did what Leah Price says people do with books: I used it as a prop to fend off the unwanted overtures of a friendly tourist on a train. That is...
The sole surviving chick from a pair of peregrine falcons nesting on a Nottingham Trent University building has been cooed over by more than half a million people since its first appearance via the...
A university has defended a senior manager who encouraged staff to improve student-completion rates by resubmitting work, giving "generous" deadline extensions and passing assignments before they had...
UK universities made £1.1 billion through research contracts with businesses and non-commercial organisations in 2010-11, according to Higher Education Statistics Agency data.
Pennywise, brand foolish? Warning that universities could rue loss of control. David Matthews writes
Matthew Reisz talks to the researcher who wants to find out if 'slum tourism' has any useful purpose
Exam howlersExplanation for the LehmanAs academics start to see the light at the end of their tunnels of marking, Times Higher Education is making its annual call for entries to its "exam howlers"...
The sector offers the total package: blue-skies insights for the future and industrial payoffs now, argues Nick Wright