Calls for research integrity watchdog dismissed
The government and the research councils have rejected suggestions that the UK needs a specific body to police research integrity.
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Concessions forced on student places plans
Funding chiefs have made a series of changes to the plans for student number controls in 2012-13 in an attempt to alleviate concerns about their impact on social mobility, “vulnerable” subjects and...
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Reading names senior civil servant as new v-c
The most senior education civil servant in Britain has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of the University of Reading.
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Foreign students fuel decade-long growth in numbers
The number of students at UK universities has gone up by almost a third in the last 10 years with those coming from outside the European Union more than doubling, according to a new report.
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Cambridge selects Lord Sainsbury as new chancellor
Former Labour science minister Lord Sainsbury of Turville has been elected chancellor of the University of Cambridge after receiving more than half the votes in a ballot of members of the institution...
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Market policies too extreme, Blair guru warns
A former director of the London School of Economics has used a House of Lords debate to attack the government’s higher education policies, saying they risk “chaotic consequences” including the...
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Glyndwr to validate private employment firm’s HE courses
Glyndwr University is to validate higher education courses run by the international recruitment company, A4e.The university said that the partnership would help people into work and tackle “social...
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Gove calls for students to be ranked on A-level scores
Research on the evidence for A-level grade inflation has prompted claims that elite universities are being damaged.
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Many happy returns (to some familiar themes and faces)
Funding cuts. Fees. Privatisation. Old institutions versus new. Ministerial (re)visions - and withering letters-page retorts. John Morgan journeys through 40 years of our back issues
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On the shoulders of giants
Matthew Reisz talks to the movers and shakers of the past 40 years who made Times Higher Education what it is today
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Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
For the artist formerly known as Boz, success was no foregone conclusion, writes Valerie Sanders
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Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions
Mary Evans applauds a collaboration that attuned our ear to female voices in fiction
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The Queer Art of Failure
A writer who begins a book by citing the children's TV character SpongeBob SquarePants, who makes the amnesiac fish Dory from Finding Nemo a central figure, and who describes the animated film...
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Perilous Glory: The Rise of Western Military Power
What is it about pre-modern military historians that tempts them to sermonise so readily about the contemporary world? Ancient Greek historians Victor Davis Hanson and Donald Kagan have both become...
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The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization
A morsel of Montaigne manque in the midst of horror proves not to be to Alex Danchev's taste