Call to end ‘segregation’ with mixed-ability universities in UK
Middlesex v-c proposes ‘comprehensive element’ and end to ‘hyper-selective’ admissions in Hepi paper
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The week in higher education – 20 July 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Interview with Tracy K. Smith
We talk race, taking advice from Seamus Heaney and poetry’s vital place in society with the US’s next Poet Laureate
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Herma Hill Kay, 1934-2017
Influential Berkeley legal scholar remembered
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Latin America University Rankings 2017: results out now
Brazil retains the crown in Times Higher Education’s second annual list of the top universities in the region as higher education institutions face up to the need to change
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Fine pencils are no use in the UK’s big-picture fees debate
University leaders dismayed by factual holes in the revived debate over tuition fees should respond with some broad brush strokes of their own, says Andy Westwood
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Lord Adonis is dead wrong: tuition fees should stay
Knee-jerk, uncosted and damaging calls to abolish fees must be resisted, says Bill Rammell
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A graduate tax would bring transparency to university funding
Flexible degrees and a clearer public contribution to their cost would command widespread support, says Iain Martin
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Optimism about US international student numbers is misplaced
US universities’ efforts to remain positive won’t wash. Trump is a disaster for recruitment, say Philip Altbach and Hans de Wit
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Academic writing: how to stay afloat
Early career academics can be left to sink or swim when navigating the choppy waters of learning scholarly writing. Helen Sword says a more formal, communal approach can help everyone, especially...
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Inequality: are hyper-selective universities making it worse?
John Morgan considers the hierarchies of prestige in higher education, the insights offered by big data research, and whether mixed-ability universities are the answer
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Generational and class gaps in attitudes on fees, polling finds
Tuition fees rank marginally above animal rights on list of voting priorities – but young people assign higher importance