Philosopher’s talk cancelled due to passport rules
A UK university has been criticised for cancelling a guest lecture after a British academic refused to produce his passport
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Twitter taunts over REF omission rile professor
Politics scholar angered by what he claims was ‘ruthless’ attempt to discredit him by citing non-inclusion in UK’s research excellence framework
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Part-time PhD students do it better: three unspoken truths
Doctoral students who downplay their part-time status forget that they excel in key ways, says Rebecca Gelding
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Turkey: powers for president on rector jobs ‘eradicate autonomy’
Government decree on rector appointments comes under state of emergency after coup attempt
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THE podcast: 3-9 November 2016 issue review
The latest edition of Times Higher Education discussed by the editorial team
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Here’s how long UK university leaders stay in post
Is the average term of office for UK university vice-chancellors getting shorter? Nick Hillman and Tom Huxley find out
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Independent study more useful than contact hours, study suggests
UK Engagement Survey finds undergraduates develop skills better out of – rather than in – the classroom
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Degree courses ‘need adapting for commuter students’
Assessment, timetables and module weighting could be altered to reduce pressures for students who travel a long way to university each day, says study author
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Columbia University global centres aim to prove university’s ‘relevance’
Universities must adopt global, rather than international, outlooks, says scholar
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Interview with Stephen Buckman
We talk blue-sky thinking, academic mobility and not ‘sweating the small stuff’ with the new Australian Research Council funding director
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Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka: ‘I wanted to smash bust of Churchill’
The university professor and former political prisoner compares his own iconoclastic impulses to Rhodes Must Fall movement
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The rise of European university networks
University leaders from across the Continent explain why collaboration is more important than ever as a new mission group forms in Amsterdam
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Katharine Perera, 1943-2016
An expert on children’s reading who was closely involved in the merger that created the University of Manchester has died
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10 questions to answer before launching a transnational HE venture
Kevin Dunseath and Chris Hall on the issues that anyone considering setting up a programme abroad should think through before committing significant funds