Asking R&D-heavy companies to help plug gaps in the science budget has implicit appeal but, in reality, only increased public spending is likely to keep global firms in the UK, says Paul Jump
Presidential commission recommends new ministry to push technological development
Cuts will “hurt the country’s competitiveness and citizens’ well-being”, says rector
Holly Else looks at how the rising cost of university study might affect willingness to study at postgraduate level
QAA chief Anthony McClaran, who is soon to take over Teqsa, tells Chris Havergal that Down Under they have pioneered a risk- and data-based system
Chris Havergal blogs from the Times Higher Education Africa Universities Summit
Report finds that reassurance about finance made school pupils significantly less likely to want to progress to higher education
Books editor Karen Shook introduces our latest literary podcast
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
From the most international universities in the world to how demographic change will shape 21st-century higher education
Reaction to TES list – as chosen by teachers – is mixed
Former president of South Africa addresses inaugural THE Africa Universities Summit
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
Concern that quantity, not quality will be prioritised as higher education marketplace opens up
The longest-serving master of Selwyn College, Cambridge and a distinguished historian and theologian has died