Ground down by French resistance: a tutor’s tale
It’s folly to make my language modules obligatory, says a grande école lecturer confronting students’ boredom and contempt

It’s folly to make my language modules obligatory, says a grande école lecturer confronting students’ boredom and contempt

Martha J. Kanter on making equality of opportunity a reality for ‘the top 100 per cent’ of students

Physical stores on and off campus are facing down threats such as Amazon’s Berkeley book ‘hangar’ by evolving, argues Andrew Thacker
Your report on a paper I delivered at the 11th European Quality Assurance Forum questioned the value of quality assurance guidelines for transnational education (“Global guidelines for TNE 'may be...
The editors of the EMBO Journal were glad to be able to publish Enrique Martin-Blanco’s paper (“Academic criticises reviewers after five-year delay to paper”, News, 28 November). The process was, in...
Writing from another Centre of Advanced Research in Mexico City, I share with Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela the preoccupation of how to strengthen science in Latin America (“How to make Latin America’s...
I have done the same Trac paperwork at the same institution as Toby Miller, and I think he is making a fuss over nothing (“My university has asked me to keep a diary of my work, and I hate it”,...
Data are available on nearly every aspect of our lives and it is up to us, as individuals, to make a decision over whether the tracking gives us any benefit. Universities naturally collect data on...

A round-up of academics awarded research council funding

This graph shows the dramatic rise of open access mega-journals such as Plos One, which offer to publish papers based on their scientific soundness rather than the significance or novelty of the...

Few disagree that more higher education is a good thing, but it’s tricky to balance universities’ costs and manageable fees

The Times Higher Education editorial team look at some of the highlights from this week's edition