News blog: The challenges facing Africa’s higher education system
Chris Havergal blogs from the Times Higher Education Africa Universities Summit
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Lifestyle benefits of university key factor in boosting applications
Report finds that reassurance about finance made school pupils significantly less likely to want to progress to higher education
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Peer-to-peer networking: David Willetts and Jennie Bristow in the latest Books podcast
Books editor Karen Shook introduces our latest literary podcast
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Top 30 African universities: Times Higher Education reveals snapshot university ranking
Institutions from 10 countries feature in a top 30 that previews what a new ranking, being discussed at the Africa Universities Summit, might look like
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12 things you should read if you’re interested in global higher education
From the most international universities in the world to how demographic change will shape 21st-century higher education
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Top 100 books to read before leaving school: what do academics think?
Reaction to TES list – as chosen by teachers – is mixed
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Thabo Mbeki: African universities must show they can aid development
Former president of South Africa addresses inaugural THE Africa Universities Summit
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Athena SWAN reaches Ireland
Trinity College Dublin and the University of Limerick become the first organisations outside the UK to gain an Athena SWAN charter mark for gender equality
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News blog: How will the lifting of student number controls affect universities?
Concern that quantity, not quality will be prioritised as higher education marketplace opens up
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Campus close-up: Testing the future of telecommunications
The University of Surrey’s centre for testing the next generation of mobile technology has seen significant buy-in from industry
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Facilities key to students’ university choice
Students place more value on facilities than reputation, research finds
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Owen Chadwick, 1916-2015
The longest-serving master of Selwyn College, Cambridge and a distinguished historian and theologian has died
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Q&A with Ruby Wax
We talk to the newly appointed visiting professor at the University of Surrey
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Quality assurance and TEF should be ‘one system’, says Hefce head
Madeleine Atkins calls for ‘alignment and synergy’ between assessment regimes
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The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy, by Daniel Bell
An argument for a ruling elite based on exams leaves Jonathan Mirsky feeling puzzled