Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2015 open for entries
This year’s Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards - more widely known as the Thelmas - have been opened for entries
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Paul Webley to step down as Soas director
The director of Soas, University of London, is to step down from his position this year owing to ill health
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THE podcast: 22-28 January 2015 issue review
Download the podcastThe role of the government’s chief scientific adviser, Russia’s bid to get five universities into the world’s top 100, and this week’s Times Higher Education Books section are all...
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OECD’s head of education gives thumbs up to £9K tuition fee system
Endorsement comes after ministers are accused by Labour of misleading Parliament
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A carrot no more
Dorothy Bishop hits the mark on all the negative consequences of our short-sighted research culture (“The big grant money. The big papers. Are we missing anything?”, Opinion, 15 January). I...
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World in brief - 22 January 2015
United StatesSilicon Valley plugs into ed techEducation technology businesses received investment totalling $1.87 billion (£1.2 billion) from venture capital firms last year, up 55 per cent on 2013....
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Carl Degler, 1921-2014
A Pulitzer prizewinning American historian who made major contributions to the study of women, African Americans and the poor has died
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Comets, not cold figures of finance, will ignite debate on Europe
In the debate over EU membership universities need to remind us of the ideal value of transnational knowledge, says Anna Notaro
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News in brief - 22 January 2015
REF 2014Data go digitalThe 1,911 submissions made to the 2014 research excellence framework have been published on the REF website. The submissions, from 154 universities, include 191,150 research...
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Traumatic evidence scars American football and its fans
Is the tide about to turn on the college sport?, ask Daniel Goldberg and Robert Lee Maril
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The week in higher education - 22 January 2015
The Sunday Times quoted Liam Byrne, Labour’s shadow universities, science and skills minister, as saying that “the right long-term shift is to a graduate tax” on 18 January. But the newspaper said...
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UK can’t afford to fall behind
Countries worldwide are investing to get ahead in the global game of research. Not doing so will cost the UK dear
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Nuts in May?
Source: Getty‘Neutralising the threat’“I haven’t yet heard from Theresa May, but I’m confident that she will regard my proposal as a positive contribution.”That was how Geraldine Transept, our Head...
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Grant winners - 22 January 2015
German Academic Exchange ServiceProject Funding: Promoting German Studies in the UKAward winners: Erica Carter, Chris Homewood, Annie Ring, Claudia Sandberg and Alexandra PontzenInstitutions: King’s...
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Definition of the mission
In Bahram Bekhradnia’s argument for making higher education less dependent on the market and instead providing more financial support through taxpayers (“Step back to look ahead”, Opinion, 15 January...