Top 100 most influential UK and US universities on Twitter
Most universities in the UK and the US now have a presence on Twitter, but which institutions can claim to be using the micro-blogging social network most effectively?
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Pfizer takeover bid: MPs write to Willetts to sound warnings
A committee of MPs has written to David Willetts over the potential risks to UK science of the proposed takeover of AstraZeneca by US giant Pfizer.
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Nirvana of HE funding is not US and Australia, warns Gunn
Too many policy experts look to the US and Australia as “some higher education funding nirvana”, according to the vice-chancellor who chairs Million+.
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THE podcast: 15 May 2014 issue review
Download the podcastThe row between the University and College Union and universities that opted to dock staff pay, a decline in the amount of money pledged by donors to UK universities, this week’s...
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A student’s lecture to professors
Can students teach their lecturers a thing or two? Austin Fitzhenry thinks so
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The week in higher education - 15 May 2014
Boasting about an honorary degree is one step up from bragging about a cycling proficiency badge, you might think. But Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy, P Diddy or just Diddy, enthusiastically trumpeted...
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Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2014
Universities are working hard and succeeding in their aim to improve life for their students, as Times Higher Education’s Student Experience Survey results show
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Belarus takes Bologna path to come in from the cold
The former Soviet satellite is working to raise standards and to court foreign students
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Research is now a global game
Which countries are steaming ahead in scientific output and power? Simon Marginson analyses the worldwide data
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On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, by Alice Goffman
Dick Hobbs on how the intense nature of policing creates secondary casualties in poor communities
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Beyond consumer-tourism in the Rainbow Nation
Robert Appelbaum reveals the highlight of his three-month sojourn in South Africa
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Rob Potter, 1950-2014
A distinguished academic expert on urban geography and the geographies of development has died
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Chinese universities beat US in income-related rankings
Universitas 21 grading introduces new measure of purchasing power
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Cavalier attitudes lead to uncivil practices in vivas
Susan Bassnett wonders why PhD examining is still so amateurish and inconsistent in English universities
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Repay ‘unlawful’ strike deductions, says UCU
Union threatens action over subtraction of a day’s pay for a two-hour walkout