Education is key to integration
While universities in parts of the West worry about immigration crackdowns, favourable political winds are allowing Canada’s institutions to flourish

While universities in parts of the West worry about immigration crackdowns, favourable political winds are allowing Canada’s institutions to flourish

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
It is good to see greater encouragement and support of researchers in communicating negative results (“Stop binning negative results, researchers told”, News, 29 March). A number of journals,...

The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
While readers should be encouraged by some of the changes made to the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey (23 March), it remains deeply flawed. It is honest that you admit (even if only...
Phil Baty (“A growing concern sprouts new branches”, Young University Rankings 2017 supplement, 6 April) states that “the 1963 Robbins report heralded the birth of ‘plate glass’ universities such as...
I read with interest your research report concerning the relatively modest level of French academic salaries and its apparent link to “institutional equality” between junior and senior staff,...
Although academic conferences frequently offer reduced-rate registration for students, with the rise of zero-hour contracts in higher education there is an increasing need for reductions for...

Scholars applaud call to increase cash for basic research, but question timing of release