Income assessment: business stream benefits sector
UK universities made £1.1 billion through research contracts with businesses and non-commercial organisations in 2010-11, according to Higher Education Statistics Agency data.
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Sector may pay the price for privatised student halls
Pennywise, brand foolish? Warning that universities could rue loss of control. David Matthews writes
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Slumdogs, meet the millionaires
Matthew Reisz talks to the researcher who wants to find out if 'slum tourism' has any useful purpose
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News in brief
Exam howlersExplanation for the LehmanAs academics start to see the light at the end of their tunnels of marking, Times Higher Education is making its annual call for entries to its "exam howlers"...
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Short and the long of it
The sector offers the total package: blue-skies insights for the future and industrial payoffs now, argues Nick Wright
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Without fees reform, our children would really feel the pinch
David Willetts defends the coalition's student finance policy as a fair, progressive model that will support the present and protect the future
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Exam? What exam?
"No one told me there was such an exam. If I'd known, I'd certainly have had a shot."That was the forthright response of our vice-chancellor to the recent claim by Fred Inglis in Times Higher...
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Ian Oswald, 1929-2012
One of the world's leading experts on sleep has died.Ian Oswald was born in London on 4 August 1929. He was educated in the capital and at the Herbert Strutt grammar school in Belper, Derbyshire -...
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What doctors need is a dose of fairness (1 of 2)
Chris Hackley is wrong when he suggests that we need a more humane and compassionate style of doctoral examination ("The kindness of strangers", 24 May). In fact, what we need is more respect for...
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What doctors need is a dose of fairness (2 of 2)
While raising a number of valid concerns about the external assessment of PhDs in the UK, Chris Hackley seems to take consumer sovereignty beyond its limits (if it is indeed appropriate to education...
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Irreplaceable losses
For those of us who have long been active in developing educational and research provision beyond these shores, it is heartening to learn that David Willetts, the universities and science minister,...
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Wider invite
I welcome Times Higher Education's argument that we don't just need more British students to study abroad: we need to encourage a wider range of universities to support student mobility as part of...
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In their own words
The University of Southampton's Centre for Global Englishes is to be welcomed ("A word of advices: let speakers of Englishes do it their way, UK told", News, 17 May). Much as the tradition of British...
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Same old tune
Regarding "Pianist wants comeback as review hits bum notes" (News, 10 May).I am currently organising a short season of recitals involving professional musicians to be funded by business sponsorship...
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Van stalls
I very much enjoyed the eulogy of Van Morrison by neuropsychiatrist Ray Dolan ("And he stoned me", Features, 24 May). But maybe that is because I too am a long-time "Van the Man" fan.Yet, while...