Black graduates ‘still face racial bias in job market’, US study suggests
By Jake New, for Inside Higher Ed
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Moocs could be ‘major recruitment tool’, says FutureLearn’s Simon Nelson
Massive open online courses will be one of the most important tools for recruiting overseas students over the next five years, a conference has heard
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Teacher training reform called for in Wales
The need for reforming teacher training in Wales is “undeniable” if the country is to raise standards, a new report has stated
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Top Cambridge degrees ‘more than double’
The proportion of students scoring top degrees at the University of Cambridge has increased significantly since 1960, according to a new analysis
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Les Ebdon pulls out of event attended by ‘loan-day lender’
England’s university access tsar boycotted a conference on student welfare after a controversial lending firm was also invited to speak
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Edinburgh and other research-intensives lose out in funding reshuffle
A major reorganisation of quality-related funding in Scotland will take money away from the “ancient” universities and hand it to newer institutions
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9 fascinating images from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
First scientific journal reaches 350 year milestone
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Gender bias ‘rife’ in history departments, says report
Conditions for female academics in some university history departments “smack still of the 1970s”, according to a new report
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Overseas fee income grows again as share of total
The UK’s universities increased their income from overseas students once again last year, with their fee payments rising to 12.7 per cent of total income.
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Vince Cable: loss of polytechnics was a mistake
The conversion of polytechnics into universities has been lamented as a “poor decision” by the business secretary
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Augmented reality in higher education: five tips to get started
Matthew Ramirez demystifies the use of AR in university study
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THE podcast: Election Hustings for Higher Education 2015 special
Download the podcastThe general election takes centre stage in this week’s Times Higher Education issue review podcast, which focuses on the recent Election Hustings for Higher Education.The weekly...
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Still Alice, directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
Julianne Moore gives a complex, nuanced portrait of a professor confounded and isolated by Alzheimer’s, writes Lucy Bolton
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Canadian studies scholars quit UK foundation
Removal of academic board member from body supporting study of Canada in the UK spurs resignations
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Tales from the precariat: when ‘enough’s enough’
A physicist on the ‘shameless exploitation’ of low-pay sessional lecturing that leaves his family officially classed as ‘poor’