Astronomers have welcomed a partial reprieve granted to the UK’s northern hemisphere telescopes, but have described the closure of two major facilities in Hawaii as a “sad day for British astronomy”.
The universities and science minister has said that he expects the number of international students at UK universities to grow.
The US Department of State has been accused of making “ill-informed and misguided” policy statements against the use of international student recruitment agents and “doing significant harm to the...
Publishers of humanities and social science journals could go bankrupt if all academic papers became freely available after six months, a report commissioned by publishers has warned.
A senior civil servant in charge of implementing the government’s higher education policies has been named the new vice-chancellor of the University of London.
The 100 Under 50 table is built on the criteria used for the World University Rankings, but with a twist The Times Higher Education 100 Under 50 uses the same range of 13 performance indicators to...
The government has scrapped plans to cap the amount of tax relief individuals can claim from charitable donations.
"Human beings are storytelling animals," sociologist Jeffrey Alexander tells us halfway through this treatise on the nature of trauma in Western societies. The type of stories we tell ourselves and...
This is a wonderful book. It conveys complex ideas in an accessible and convincing way. Perhaps I was easy to convince, being one of those who fall on the pro hate-speech laws side of the debate to...
State security blankets fail to make us safe and do many of us harm, argues Irma van der Ploeg
Radicalism characteristically runs in cycles, and after the post-1991 quiescence, the pursuit of democracy has re-emerged in the Arab Spring, in Tibet, Rangoon and Moscow, in the Occupy Wall Street...
Halfway through reading this monograph I instinctively did what Leah Price says people do with books: I used it as a prop to fend off the unwanted overtures of a friendly tourist on a train. That is...
Phil Baty celebrates the universities that have reached the top of the global academy in decades, not centuries
Free from tradition and baggage, a wave of upstarts are challenging their elders. Phil Baty investigates
Achieving world-class status is a marathon, not a sprint, but notes Jamil Salmi, rapid progress can be made with the right regimen - particularly when starting from scratch