Why aren’t we debating all the issues in higher education?
As the row over fees reignites and mutates into a debate over the very purpose of universities, silence reigns on the issue of hyper-selectivity
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Laurie Taylor – 20 July 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Layers of hypocrisy in TEF reaction
Emilie Murphy was not the first academic to declare that the teaching excellence framework could not possibly be credible “without anyone actually stepping foot inside classrooms and lecture theatres...
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A line in the sand
Teesside University recently announced that all professors who are not in management roles will have to reapply for their jobs (“University tells entire professoriate to reapply for their jobs”, News...
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Metamorphosis
There is something deeply disingenuous about Jo Johnson’s roseate view of the effect of tuition fees on our universities. Prospective students are clearly put off by the threat of graduating with £57...
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Marked absences
It was disappointing that the article about England’s student finance system (“One in three v-cs backs Labour fees policy: survey”, News, 13 July) contained no reference to the funding regime for...
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Times Higher Education Latin America University Rankings 2017 table information
Key statistics The 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...
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Teesside’s ‘ignorant’ audit of professors under international fire
University attacked by 750 academics for forcing entire professoriate to reapply for jobs
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Times Higher Education summer reads 2017 - part one
Scholars and senior sector figures reveal the books they’ll be reading over the summer break – for work or pleasure or both
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How much do you really understand about the peer-review process?
Scholars are ignorant of many aspects of peer review, and part of the problem is that researching it is a bit like kicking the hornet’s nest, says Martin Eve