Young universities: how to start from scratch
As the THE Young University Rankings 2017 highlight rising stars, Jack Grove looks at six institutions – recently launched or still in the planning stages – built on bold notions and innovative...

As the THE Young University Rankings 2017 highlight rising stars, Jack Grove looks at six institutions – recently launched or still in the planning stages – built on bold notions and innovative...

A call to make our world more pleasant and fitting is let down by its own biases, says Isabelle Szmigin

Constantine Sandis on a fitting swansong from one of its greatest moral philosophers

Story time for social scientists; tax owed is not tax loathed; the mighty river of free-flowing curiosity; and the truth, short and sweet

Book of the week: sidelining its female workforce cost the UK primacy in a nascent IT industry, says John Gilbey

Do you appear on this year’s shortlist?

A round-up of academics awarded research council funding

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Excellence in an institution is measured by the value of its research and the quality of its teaching, not by the height of the ivy on its walls
It is profoundly concerning that the legislative proposals introduced in Hungary’s National Assembly on 28 March would decisively entrench direct national state control over open international higher...
Now that Article 50 has been triggered, the government must ensure that we continue to enhance and safeguard the UK’S world-leading research, innovation and higher education systems. Our continued...
Perhaps the most depressing thing about education research is the total absence of historical memory and the continual reinvention of the wheel. A librarian calls for the banning of reading lists (“...
We were pleased that both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Teaching and Learning Laboratory and RELATE at MIT (Research in Learning, Assessing and Tutoring Effectively) were mentioned in...