Melbourne Publishing’s potboiler poses questions about role of uni press
If popular books trump scholarly monographs, what’s the point of academic publishers? asks John Ross
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Martin Green: Sun King’s supervisor basks in rays of hope
Counting China’s first green billionaire among your mentees doesn’t hurt in funding applications, says UNSW professor
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Rankings ‘must change’ in response to rise of China
Rebalancing of global higher education promises end of era in which institutions all ‘strive to be the same as Harvard’, says professor
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Ignorance is no excuse – universities must report clinical trials
Universities in the UK are legally obliged to report clinical trial results and a number of bodies and campaigns are now monitoring their activity to ensure they do, says Síle Lane
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US universities sympathise with controversial student visa sting
Creation of fake university seen as worrying but ultimately justified by sector leaders
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Progress towards gender equality begins in universities
Encouraging the use of inclusive language and implementing policies against gender-based violence on campus can lead to wider societal change, say Amparo Galbis and Cristiana Oliveira
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Diversity concerns as biomedical papers ‘ignore sex as variable’
Papers with females as senior authors significantly more likely to take account of sex
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Harvard president rejects predictions of mass university closures
Larry Bacow calls campuses ‘far more adaptable and durable’ than sceptics claim
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Armies of librarians are necessary to understand the modern information onslaught
Librarians create catalogues, add metadata and teach people how to think critically about what they find on the internet. The world has changed and so have they, says Beth Montague-Hellen
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THE Asia-Pacific University Rankings 2019: methodology
To create our Asia-Pacific University Rankings, we draw on Times Higher Education’s vast data collection, analysing the results with the same methods used for the World University Rankings then...
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UK universities told to ignore net migration target
Chair of Migration Advisory Committee says target no longer influences policy on student migration
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Leading UK universities going backwards on state school access
Durham, Imperial College and St Andrews all had a smaller share of first years from state schools in 2017-18 than Cambridge
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Lancaster tests appetite for fees in ‘land of the free’ Germany
Vice-chancellor predicts ‘very significant’ demand at Leipzig branch campus
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Is it time to break up the USS?
Higher Education Policy Institute director Nick Hillman assesses the history of UK academia’s main pension scheme to ask whether it needs fundamental reform
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London-centric policymaking ‘behind Erasmus+ uncertainty’
Bergen rector says UK's failure to commit to European student mobility overlooks importance of ties between Britain's north and Norway