THE podcast: 10 October 2013 issue review
Listen to the podcastThe growing number of courses offered in English by European universities, our weekly books section, essay mills, and the inaugural Times Higher Education World Academic Summit...

Listen to the podcastThe growing number of courses offered in English by European universities, our weekly books section, essay mills, and the inaugural Times Higher Education World Academic Summit...

David Matthews investigates the scale and threat of the custom essay industry

Offerings of master’s courses in English tempt students away from UK, study suggests

Former Tory minister Baroness Bottomley questions need for academic leadership

Focusing on top scholars’ practices gives an incomplete picture, says Huw Morris

A. W. Purdue on the leader who saw the nuclear future but let it slip

Douglas Anderson on the results of his active approach to pedagogy

Celebrating the nobility of failure

We speak to the chair of judges for the Man Booker International Prize 2015. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Look back in AngliaThe University of East Anglia marked its 50th anniversary celebrations with a festival that featured Norfolk’s first firework volcano - a 5m replica of Indonesia’s Mount Merapi. A...

Cash for answers - What do ghostwritten essays cost the academy?

On 13 November 1967, Newcastle University became the first and only British university to give Martin Luther King an honorary degree during his lifetime

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Open accessSpoof, where is thy sting?The journal Science has said the acceptance for publication of a spoof scientific paper by a large proportion of open-access journals in a “sting operation” had...

China/JapanScholar held after Shanghai returnA Chinese academic living in Japan has been detained by his government since July, according to fellow Chinese academics and a Japanese newspaper. Chinese...