Unfunny foundation
I’m afraid Devorah Baum’s joke about Cohen, a Jew in Berlin in 1933, and Hitler “having lunch” (“Painfully funny”, Feature, 26 October) doesn’t do it for me. In narrative jokes, the key to the art of...
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Scholarly sleaze
Just like Hollywood and Parliament, academia has entrenched power hierarchies. It can’t pretend that sexual harassment doesn’t take place
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Mari Lyn Salvador, 1943-2017
Former director of Berkeley anthropology museum remembered
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Unification is the key to diversification
A single, comprehensive policy and funding infrastructure for UK tertiary education would empower learners and encourage innovation, say Paul Woodgates and Mike Boxall
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Best universities for employability: UK down amid Brexit fears
Placings for UK in latest edition of Global University Employability Survey may already be reflecting damage to country’s reputation
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How to make yourself more KEFable
Getting innovations to market can be a conundrum, but help and support is available for those limbering up for the knowledge exchange framework, says Siraj Ahmed Shaikh
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Why are universities not leading the charge for better thinking?
Traditions, success and lack of self-reflection limit higher education's role in thought revolutions, says Geoff Mulgan
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Universities must ease the pains of bondage
PhD failure can have disastrous consequences for overseas students bonded to their funders, says Andrew George
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Ghanaian university founder wins $500K Wise Prize
Patrick Awuah set up institution to focus on critical thinking, ethics and collaboration
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Research must transcend ‘dystopian mindset’ of the past half-century
Ahead of his Vincent Briscoe Lecture, Bill Durodié calls on researchers to engage with issues of great social and technological ambition
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World University Rankings 2016-2017 by subject: business and economics table information
Key statisticsThe data shown under key statistics is that provided by the university itself in its submission to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. It represents data from the 2014...
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Medical school advertisements 'can be misleading'
Would-be medical students should scrutinise schools' marketing
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Students ‘don’t trust lecturers who aren’t native speakers’
Academic warns universities need to take impact of accent on credibility seriously as it has ‘demotivated’ overseas lecturers