What's in a name? Plenty, scholars attest
University reputation is the most important factor for academics deciding whether to take jobs in another country - although the small size of European houses is also a consideration for US scholars.
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ERC rejects 'impact agenda'
European funder puts faith in 'the cunning of reason'. Paul Jump reports from Brussels
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Let us introduce you to potential partners and higher citation counts
The British Council's Jo Beall tells John Morgan how it can smooth the path to 'transnational education'
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Arab MC-turned-scholar keeps it real (and brief)
The average master's thesis does not rework the 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet by legendary US hip hop group Public Enemy into a modern version about discrimination against Arabs.But for Yassin...
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Student lifestyle survey - More debt, more paid work, more pressure...less alcohol
The fifth biennial Sodexo-Times Higher Education University Lifestyle Survey is the last to quiz students under the lower tuition fees regime - and it reveals some telling views on the changing...
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Thoroughly entitled
Twenty years on, post-1992s have proved beyond doubt they are worthy of the university moniker, argues Michael Driscoll
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Social mobility, yes. Outreach efforts, yes. Quotas, absolutely not
Ruth Deech argues that any attempt by Offa to shape the make-up of the student body is wrong-headed and could fall foul of the law
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Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed
An immigrant artist's wanderlust propelled him to Britain, where his work was compared to Hogarth's, notes Emma Barker
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The Pick - Reconstructing lives
Reconstructing livesNational War Museum, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, 9 March-24 February 2013"We have now four miles of beds - and not eighteen inches apart," Florence Nightingale reported from the...
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Diary
BathThe Compassionate Eye: Birds and Beasts from the American Museum's Print CollectionAlthough he was a doctor, Dallas Pratt (1914-94) was deeply troubled by vivisection and committed to animal...
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That's all, folks!
Our Head of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Professor Gordon Lapping, has reacted angrily to insinuations that the BA course P3197 run by his department is a Mickey Mouse degree.Lapping...
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Private values and for-profit standards (1 of 3)
We at Regent's College were delighted by the breadth and depth of the private sector coverage in last week's Times Higher Education ("Enigma variations", 1 March). We share the concern that many...
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Private values and for-profit standards (2 of 3)
Recent reports in THE have highlighted concerns about the standards of the private providers designated for student support ("QAA in the dark on 63 of 94 private providers", 23 February; "Enigma...
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Private values and for-profit standards (3 of 3)
Carl Lygo, principal of BPP University College, makes a serious category error in equating for-profit universities (under investigation in the US but promoted by the UK government as a solution to a...
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Two brains, both wrong
David Willetts disagrees with Stefan Collini that the government lacks an understanding of the public value of the university ("A mistaken conception that the university system is under attack", 1...