Q&A with Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea
We speak to the new chancellor of the University of Birmingham
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#ToughToTeach: readers reveal their pedagogical no-go zones
From Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics to promissory estoppel, conveying knowledge can be hard going at times
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Overseas branches serve it sunny side up
Christopher Bigsby on the pleasures and pitfalls of internationalisation
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Appointments - 17 July 2014
The latest higher education appointments
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Medics happiest with colleagues
Academics working in medicine, veterinary medicine and dentistry are more likely to enjoy working with their colleagues than those working in the arts and humanities
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Starter for £10K
I note that it is possible that the salaries of the most highly paid academics may be revealed (“High-earner salaries may be disclosed”, News, 10 July).Surely once achieved, those with the highest...
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TOEFL: tried and tested
I read with interest Karen Harris’ article “Degree-level study without language competency is absurd” (Opinion, 3 July).Harris incorrectly identifies which English language test featured in a recent...
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Stand with Docherty
There has been a series of comments in THE since March about the situation of Thomas Docherty, a professor suspended by the University of Warwick. The comments have been elliptical, because it...
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Boardroom imbalance
The news that Wendy Purcell has been put on leave by Plymouth University’s board of governors is distressing. She has both a national and an international profile and is one of a small cadre of...
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Turn page on prospectuses
Jan Čulik bemoans the tendency of managerialism to stifle eclectic scholarship in the name of practicality and short-term impact, and asks what we might do about it (“Named but not shamed”, Letters,...
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There is such a thing as bad publicity
On the morning of the publication of last week’s Times Higher Education issue containing an article about the allegedly overly aggressive style of management at Swansea University’s School of...
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The week in higher education - 17 July 2014
One of David Willetts’ final acts as universities and science minister last week was to express “confidence” in the chairman of the Student Loans Company after he offered to resign over graduates...
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University of Liverpool staff to lose pay if online students drop out
Academic claims that pay would be deducted even if students quit Liverpool-Laureate course because of bereavement
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Outreach activity ramped up at dawn of £9,000 fees
Les Ebdon claims fee level has not put off poor students as spending to attract them climbs and admissions rise