Colleges that advertise their diversity should do more to help poor students
Reduced tuition fees and more hardship scholarships would help those watching Zoom lectures while working on checkouts, says Barbara Franz
Reduced tuition fees and more hardship scholarships would help those watching Zoom lectures while working on checkouts, says Barbara Franz
Doctoral degrees urgently need to become more diverse, more student-centred and more public-facing, argue authors of new book
Absence of political leadership, consensus building and links to ‘levelling up’ agenda seen as weaknesses of Westminster government’s post-18 review
Like retailers, institutions must adapt to new circumstances by accelerating transformation or face long-term extinction, says Paul Baines
Thousands of PhD dissertations by Durham University available on Kindle services following mass scraping of online repository
Freshly inaugurated US president Joe Biden owes his election victory to swing states in America’s Rust Belt. But is his plan to revitalise them by creating ‘millions of new manufacturing and...
Boise State’s Marlene Tromp sees small-town rescues as solution to anti-intellectual fervour
Daily check-ins launched during the Covid outbreak appear to be increasingly normalised
Rationalising online and in-person offerings and establishing mutually beneficial partnerships will be crucial, say Michael Braun and Scott Latham
In their unearthly calm and Dewey Decimal order, university libraries offer the promise of remaking ourselves, says Joe Moran
Which books have brought insight or consolation to academics and other university staff in this turbulent year? Our expert readers share their discoveries
Times Higher Education journalists name the academics and administrators who have shaped the debate in the past 12 months
The PhD viva is one of the most demanding situations students will find themselves in – and now this process has moved online. Alison Baverstock offers tips for chairing a Zoom viva that is as stress...
Academic says some safety requirements increase risk to researchers and encourages institutions to take flexible, academic-led approach
Richard Joyner enjoys a vivid account of a larger-than-life scientist and reflects on whether Haldane’s career would be possible today