Are graduates good value for money?
With degrees now necessary for entry into more jobs than ever before, John Morgan considers the economic arguments for expanding higher education

With degrees now necessary for entry into more jobs than ever before, John Morgan considers the economic arguments for expanding higher education

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Despite fears of saturation, an ever-growing army of graduates could just counter – rather than heighten – the threat of machines taking all our jobs

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In the news story “Publishers seek removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate”, James Milne, a spokesman for a group of five academic publishers that includes Elsevier, Wiley and Brill, says...
I was interested to observe how little Pragya Agarwal’s “Careers intelligence” article “How to write the perfect PhD proposal” (News, 5 October) corresponded to the way in which PhD candidates are...
Many US homes have a mailbox at the edge of the property that residents visit to find out what has arrived since they last looked. That is a much better procedure than having post pushed through your...
In the news story “Survey results confirm UK university staff’s deep dissatisfaction” (5 October), your correspondent writes: “The final results…have made it clear that malcontents were not...

Female lecturers allegedly under pressure to settle legal action after university’s equality charter application rejected

Phil Baty on why the results of the 2018 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education US College Rankings, published on THE today, matter so much

John Morgan looks at how an old argument may become pressing in future funding debates

Lord Hunt on how to ensure the higher education sector retains its competitive edge post-Brexit

Canadian institution targeting thousands of French applicants who fail to gain place at home