Private universities ‘only way to meet demand’ in emerging economies
Allowing private sector to flourish is best route to vastly increase access to ‘good, not great’ higher education, BRICS and Emerging Economies Universities Summit hears
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When we label students by ability, we limit their potential to learn
University educators have a responsibility to debunk the myth that intelligence is fixed, says Claire Taylor
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Early career researchers: the difficulty of saying ‘no’ as a newbie
Juggling multiple departmental roles on top of teaching and research can leave new lecturers feeling ‘punch-drunk’, explains new appointee Richard Budd
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UK should learn from ‘downsides’ of US higher education
There is ‘often ill-informed reverence for the US system’, claims the director of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education
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THE BRICS and Emerging Economies Universities Summit: Twitter reaction
Round-up of tweets from Times Higher Education’s summit in Delhi
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Russia business school head: academics can ‘keep the world together’
Konstantin Krotov also speaks of ‘full support’ for Turkish academic in light of Russian-Turkish diplomatic tension
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Giving Offa director target-setting powers ‘would not work’, Les Ebdon warns
Fair access tsar warns ‘top-down meddling’ would be a ‘costly, bureaucratic exercise’
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White, Western and male? Prepare to be told off for writing a poem
I had assumed stories about campus political correctness might be overblown. But the experience of my friend is an example of how deeply it permeates universities
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‘Top-down’ leadership approach ‘key to most successful universities’
But Bilkent University rector warns THE BRICS conference that bad leadership can also sink institutions. David Matthews reports from Delhi
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It’s time to ditch stale perceptions of university hierarchies
Catherine O’Connell responds to a recent study that identified four ‘tiers’ of universities in the UK
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University of Surrey appoints China-born nanotechnologist as next v-c
Max Lu to join from University of Queensland
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Innovating Pedagogy 2015: the 10 technological trends set to transform education
Key predictions from the Open University and SRI International report
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Spending review: winners and losers from the new Global Challenges Research Fund
A qualified welcome for George Osborne’s real-terms protection of research, but uncertainty over how new overseas aid spending will operate
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Student loan expansion relies on ‘accounting trick’
Government’s moves to lower student loan write-off ease path to postgraduate and part-time lending