News blog: Right-wing thinktank close to Sajid Javid calls for scrapping of REF
Will Institute of Economic Affairs report put the idea of cuts to QR funding on the political agenda? asks John Morgan
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The perpetual financial crisis of UK higher education
Lee Jones reacts to the £150 million cut to Hefce's budget
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THE podcast: 23-29 July 2015 issue review
This week's issue discussed by the Times Higher Education team
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Healthy obsessions
Lord Rees of Ludlow is surely right that significant outcomes are more likely to emerge when researchers are committed to – even obsessed with – tackling problems (“Tracing the trajectory between...
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Back to boycott basics
Audrey Osler’s extraordinary statement that earlier this year Soas, University of London “held an institution-wide referendum on an academic boycott of Israel, backing it by an overwhelming majority...
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Where’s the Brexit?
Outside the European Union, our universities could still cooperate with their EU counterparts and UK students could still study abroad. As home to many pre-eminent educational establishments, the UK...
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The single parent trap
I like the honesty in Nicole Westmarland’s article (“Life after loss”, Opinion, 18 June). It was recommended to me because of my despair at being a final-stage PhD student and a single parent while...
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Props for a good show
In common with all of Microsoft Office, PowerPoint suffers from “familiarity breeding contempt” (“In praise of PowerPoint”, Opinion, 16 July). Yet I am always amazed by the functionality of such...
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The week in higher education – 23 July 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Building the perfect beast
As the sector debates the design of a teaching-ometer, campuses wait to discover the strength of the TEF’s power over fee levels
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Can dressing down harm your career?
Dress to impress if you want students in your corner, claims US study
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Ernest Kuh, 1928-2015
A leading expert on electronic circuit theory who spent his whole career at Berkeley has died
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Campus close-up: Tinkering helps to dial in the joy of learning
Making radios in London Met’s masterclasses gets children on the university wavelength