Coalition review focuses on universities' economic role
The coalition government has praised universities as "the driving force behind our increasingly high-tech, knowledge-based economy" in its mid-term review.
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Cara calls for urgent support for Syrian academics
The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (Cara) has called for urgent support to be given to Syrian academics and students caught up in the country’s civil war.
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Former UK-based researcher found guilty of misconduct
A former researcher at the universities of Glasgow and Liverpool has been found guilty of serious scientific misconduct by his previous university in Singapore.
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Rammell attacks coalition following Ucas figures
The fall in university applications could be "a societal turning-point" and the government must launch a national campaign to ensure higher education is seen as affordable, a vice-chancellor and...
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Year-on-year fall in applications continues
University applicant numbers have continued to fall for the second consecutive year - with around 18,000 fewer people applying to higher education compared to the same time last year, new figures...
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Grant winners
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsSciences• Award winner: Colin Campbell• Institution: University of Edinburgh• Value: £243,900Mapping local steady state redox potentials with subcellular...
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Charles Rosen, 1927-2012
A world-renowned pianist, musicologist and polymathic writer on cultural themes has died.Charles Rosen was born in New York on 5 May 19 and lived to the end of his life in the apartment he moved into...
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Age of 'catastrophe'? It is already here
The readers of Times Higher Education owe a huge debt of gratitude to Paul Ramsden, a consultant in teaching and learning in higher education, for solving in one short article the conundrum that has...
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Made to measure
Regarding "The week in higher education" on 29 November. One entry stated: "Universities have largely abandoned examinations in favour of 'spoon-fed' coursework, according to an article in The Sunday...
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On the ball
Regarding "The world in their sights: Science without Borders", part of your recent cover feature "Boom times and golden goals" (13 December). The Science without Borders programme in the UK has...
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Swamped by red tape
I am sure that many in higher education identified with the UK Border Agency's recent administrative headaches ("'Illegal' students reports ignored", News in brief, 6 December), but that is where the...
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First-hand experience
Bruce Macfarlane seems unaware that the educator's role is to facilitate students' learning ("Be here now, or else: lamentable effects of student 'presenteeism'", Opinion, 13 December). In part, this...
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PhD paralysis
"External examiners' anachronistic power over the PhD process can be painfully counter-productive." So wrote marketing professor Chris Hackley in the pages of Times Higher Education last year ("The...
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Elevated concerns
I am sure Theresa May has in mind the example of the Daleks' methods when it comes to international students ("Seek, locate, repatriate! 'Dalek' home secretary's visa stance angers v-c", News, 20/...
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Odds and quads
IE University in Segovia occupies the site of the first Dominican convent on Spanish soil, Santa Cruz la Real.