Stormy weather for BIS as MPs savage forecasting failures
MPs in charge of examining public spending “don’t have confidence” in the government figures behind the £200 billion student loans system.

MPs in charge of examining public spending “don’t have confidence” in the government figures behind the £200 billion student loans system.

The University of Oxford has announced the appointment of Richard Ovenden as Bodley’s Librarian

Download the podcastPhilip Roscoe, reader in management and director of postgraduate research in the School of Management at the University of St Andrews in conversation with Times Higher Education’s...

Source: UpstateNYerDownload the podcastShirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, and John Kolb, vice-president for information services and technology and chief...

ULU vice-president and NUS black students’ officer also on ballot

But more than 40 per cent are registered with Oxford Brookes, says Hesa

Download the podcastThe effectiveness of university outreach activities, the 2014 grant letter, our regular HE & Me section and Germany’s U-turn on tuition fees are all discussed in this week...

Southampton Solent University has named Graham Baldwin as its next vice-chancellor

Could England force a similar reversal? Howard Hotson asks

Michelle Baddeley on an exploration of what makes us tick

Striking academics call for better pay, but the PhD students who support their work are suffering even more, Fern Riddell says

Proposed European reforms could stymie UK health research, says MRC head

Contrast between their chances and those of the rich are unchanged since late 1990s, Offa finds

The concept of a student market - and so the involvement of the Consumers’ Association - is flawed, argues Martin McQuillan

Convolutionary tale - Does Germany’s U-turn on fees hold lessons for the UK?