Former Labour science minister Lord Sainsbury of Turville has been elected chancellor of the University of Cambridge after receiving more than half the votes in a ballot of members of the institution...
A former director of the London School of Economics has used a House of Lords debate to attack the government’s higher education policies, saying they risk “chaotic consequences” including the...
Glyndwr University is to validate higher education courses run by the international recruitment company, A4e.The university said that the partnership would help people into work and tackle “social...
Research on the evidence for A-level grade inflation has prompted claims that elite universities are being damaged.
Funding cuts. Fees. Privatisation. Old institutions versus new. Ministerial (re)visions - and withering letters-page retorts. John Morgan journeys through 40 years of our back issues
Matthew Reisz talks to the movers and shakers of the past 40 years who made Times Higher Education what it is today
For the artist formerly known as Boz, success was no foregone conclusion, writes Valerie Sanders
Mary Evans applauds a collaboration that attuned our ear to female voices in fiction
A writer who begins a book by citing the children's TV character SpongeBob SquarePants, who makes the amnesiac fish Dory from Finding Nemo a central figure, and who describes the animated film...
What is it about pre-modern military historians that tempts them to sermonise so readily about the contemporary world? Ancient Greek historians Victor Davis Hanson and Donald Kagan have both become...
A morsel of Montaigne manque in the midst of horror proves not to be to Alex Danchev's taste
Growing up in Cold War West Germany, teenagers would share knowing grins whenever the name Beate Uhse was mentioned: it stood for all things vaguely adult and naughty. Little did we know about the...
Kathy Rudy has written Loving Animals with the intent of establishing fresh perspectives on animal ethics. In pursuit of this goal, she investigates common dilemmas concerning the treatment of non-...
Matthew Reisz on a UK-supported research centre helping tackle violence against women in Kurdistan
The switch from measuring widening participation via students' socio-economic classification to free school meal data is not fair, an admissions expert has said.