Home truths about the Home Office
What should have been a straightforward application for leave to remain in the UK turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare for University of St Andrews’ lecturer Emily Michelson, whose research trip to...
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Hungary’s targeting of the Central European University is shameful
The American-Hungarian institution proves that learning through diversity is not an impossible dream, says Marvin Lazerson
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Grant winners – 13 April 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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How do universities use big data?
From personalising tuition to performance management, the use of data is increasingly driving how institutions operate
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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
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The week in higher education - 13 April 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Accentuating the positive in negative results
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,...
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Laurie Taylor – 13 April 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Survey flaws
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...
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Pre-Robbins reforms
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...
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Égalité, fraternité?
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,...