Please don't tinker with tuition fees Mrs May
Sheffield Hallam University's vice-chancellor Chris Husbands explains why cutting tuition fees would harm social mobility and why variable fees are also a bad idea
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Research funders urged to follow NSF lead on harassment
National Science Foundation requires universities to inform them if staff members receiving grant funding face sexual harassment allegations
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Funding review: how much might it cost and who might gain most?
London Economics modelling suggests that higher earners would be the primary beneficiaries of many potential reforms
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Putting a prison at the heart of a university campus
Project at Canterbury Christ Church aims to explore building’s history and create new heritage centre
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May: leaving poorest with largest debts 'hampers widening access'
Prime minister to express concern that England ‘has one of the most expensive systems of university tuition in the world’
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Four ways for Theresa May to fix student loans
Ahead of the prime minister’s speech on reforming university funding, Charles B. W. Prince suggests four routes to improving student finance
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Getting the most from professional internships during your doctorate
Getting professional experience puts postgraduates in situations that they are unlikely to have faced in their university life, says Alfredo Cumerma
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Hinds aiming to deliver variable fees on eve of funding review
Damian Hinds says he would like to see degree ‘options available which have different costs’
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English funding review must reconsider interest rates, say MPs
Treasury Committee says government has failed to justify why student loan interest rates should exceed those prevailing in the market
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Free Speech Rankings: misleading, ill-informed and worryingly influential
The evidence used to compile Spiked Online’s Free Speech Rankings is not to be trusted, says Carl Thompson
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‘Grand challenges’ reshape universities’ research agendas
Twenty North American institutions using ‘moon shots’ to help focus and attract support for their scientific endeavours
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THE podcast: Asia Universities Summit 2018 review
Hear the Times Higher Education team and university leaders talk about the hot topics discussed at the 2018 Asia Universities Summit
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Yale students flock to the pursuit of happiness
Class on ‘science of positive psychology’ becomes university’s most popular course
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High-achieving PhD candidates ‘experience greatest stress’
Symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress are more acute for PhD candidates classified as exceeding their schedule
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Canadian university to fully cover international PhD fees
Brock University is the latest Ontario institution to announce new financial support for overseas doctoral students