Unconditional offers sell students short
Liz Carlile explains why the University of Sheffield has avoided giving unconditional offers to applicants who have yet to sit their exams
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Spain’s internationalisation efforts must move beyond Erasmus
The success in attracting Erasmus+ students must be translated into more far-reaching and economically transformative initiatives, says Conrado Briceño
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Erasmus students ‘only learn English’ on year abroad
Separate classes, often in English, mean European students are failing to learn their host country’s tongue, new book finds
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Stand-alone teaching intensity measure ‘could mislead applicants’
Office for Students pursues collation of data on contact hours and class sizes outside teaching excellence framework
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Concern over timeline for Australian performance funding scheme
Australian government is underestimating the challenge, analysts say
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Times Higher Education’s best book reviews of 2018
Matthew Reisz reflects on a sobering year in academic books that was thankfully enlivened by stories of Barbie dolls, chimpanzees and sex under socialism
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Success with minorities makes Maryland campus a topic of study
UMBC’s success in producing black graduates who later earn science doctorates may prove tough to replicate
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Migrant academics more prolific than US colleagues but paid less
Foreign-born academics outperform US counterparts on numerous productivity measures, analysis shows
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Times Higher Education’s most-read articles of 2018
2018 was marked by strikes, pay scandals and the launch of the world’s first blockchain university
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New Year Honours 2019: damehood for ex-Hefce chief executive
Wellcome Trust director Jeremy Farrar also knighted
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Murder of dean who exposed fraud shines spotlight on corruption
One of two men accused of killing Gregory Kamwendo is a former colleague at the University of Zululand
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International students in Australia: less diverse, more converged
Cash flows increasingly from south and east Asia to south-eastern cities
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Finding poetry in paper titles
Brian Moeran offers a collection of haiku using research titles from the programme of a recent academic conference
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US universities prepared to pay high price for sporting success
Despite scandal and top-level resignations, University of Maryland system head sees football as being well worth the trouble
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New data lay bare Europe’s gender gap for STEM graduates
However, latest data from EU suggests eastern European nations having more success in keeping gap narrow