The academy must end its love affair with conferences
The damage we’re doing to the environment by travelling to international conferences is no longer worth the benefit, argues Gary Thomas
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After NUS cuts, will the student voice still be heard in the UK?
Number of sabbatical officers cut from 19 to seven, and permanent workforce halved, in response to £3 million deficit
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Teach PhDs how to do an actual job search
Many PhD career initiatives focus on exploratory workshops and alumni panels, but Alfredo Cumerma believes the next step should concentrate on the job search itself
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USS pensions: v-cs drop request for two-year strike moratorium
UUK proposal calls for next month’s ballot to be cancelled in return for a 0.5 per cent increase in employer contributions to Universities Superannuation Scheme
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Regulator anoints first Australian university college
Avondale’s elevation secured on the day reviewer says category should be scrapped
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If you want to come here and say the earth is flat, you can – v-c
UNSW Sydney leader Ian Jacobs says Australia’s proposed free speech code could prove counterproductive
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Student ethnicity and class data ‘hardly monitored’ in Europe
With no good data, continental European universities cannot monitor if widening access policies are working
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Brexit will harm universities outside the Russell Group – and this matters enormously
Brexit will exacerbate the inequalities that already exist in UK higher education, argue Helen De Cruz and Chon Tejedor
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Gender pay gap for UK economists ‘unchanged in 20 years’
Women paid significantly less than men even when they are in the same role, conference hears
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Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings 2020 methodology
Ranking of US universities and colleges puts student success and learning at its heart
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American Higher Education Since World War II: A History, by Roger L. Geiger
Book of the week: David Wheeler enjoys a bold overview of how universities in the US have been transformed over three-quarters of a century
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Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought, by Barbara Tversky
Constantine Sandis praises a bold account of how our thought is inextricably bound up with our interactions with the world
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The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal, by Martha C. Nussbaum
Lior Erez is largely impressed by an attempt to adapt the ancient ideals of cosmopolitanism to the challenges of today
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Lost in the blizzard: students of Generation Z
Are today’s students really self-absorbed snowflakes or are lecturers merely experiencing the other side of the intergenerational perspective?