He scores, in two fields
Your report in The Week in Higher Education (28 August) on the student turned professional footballer and the possibility of his prize-winning essay being published (“surely the first academic...
Your report in The Week in Higher Education (28 August) on the student turned professional footballer and the possibility of his prize-winning essay being published (“surely the first academic...
Perhaps Greek universities should be wary of removing their “eternals” (News, 4 September). Was it not the Eternals who enabled the Greeks to defeat their Persian counterparts, the Immortals, at the...
I enjoyed Dale Salwak’s feature “Make a class a haven” (18 September). How innovative to create a space without the distractions of talking, groupwork and computers, and with bare walls and soft...

In today’s brave new world of university learning, students aren’t allowed to be shy, says Bruce Macfarlane

Education systems in England are reinforcing divergence in wealth – we must guard against it

Blog post accuses Wiley of harming science’s ability to self-correct

Pension fund that invested £16 million in project at centre of kickbacks case

Higher pay for top researchers may have caused the end of final salary scheme

Will higher education be better protected or was a chance for accountability lost? David Bell and Willy Maley on the referendum

Felipe Fernández-Armesto on academic Steven Salaita’s angry postings about Israel
Times Higher Education was able to reveal this week that the University of Warwick is at last preparing to lift the suspension imposed on lecturer Thomas Docherty

Economics is the subject of substantial controversy in Germany of late, with many articulate and emphatic appeals for the academic subject to do more for the cause of ethics.Throughout much of the...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Some 70 Science Without Borders students at Southampton received a message citing faculty complaints about their performance

Government aims to prioritise standards over enrolment, claims minister