Stand-alone teaching intensity measure ‘could mislead applicants’
Office for Students pursues collation of data on contact hours and class sizes outside teaching excellence framework

Office for Students pursues collation of data on contact hours and class sizes outside teaching excellence framework

Australian government is underestimating the challenge, analysts say

Matthew Reisz reflects on a sobering year in academic books that was thankfully enlivened by stories of Barbie dolls, chimpanzees and sex under socialism

UMBC’s success in producing black graduates who later earn science doctorates may prove tough to replicate

Foreign-born academics outperform US counterparts on numerous productivity measures, analysis shows

2018 was marked by strikes, pay scandals and the launch of the world’s first blockchain university

Wellcome Trust director Jeremy Farrar also knighted

One of two men accused of killing Gregory Kamwendo is a former colleague at the University of Zululand

Cash flows increasingly from south and east Asia to south-eastern cities

Brian Moeran offers a collection of haiku using research titles from the programme of a recent academic conference

We reveal the most-read articles on the THE Student site including advice on applying to universities overseas, where the UK royals went to university and which subjects you were most interested in...

Despite scandal and top-level resignations, University of Maryland system head sees football as being well worth the trouble

However, latest data from EU suggests eastern European nations having more success in keeping gap narrow

Toronto scholars say Ethiopia collaboration has helped reverse brain drain and led to important milestones for country

Student blogger Raymond Diab describes a typical day at a university in France