The English higher education sector last year saw its first real-terms cut in income since records began almost 20 years ago, while institutional finances will take a further hit this year because of...
Podcast Powered By PodbeanOpen access policy, university sport and the impact of the government’s reforms on part-time students all feature on this Times Higher Education issue review. Chris Parr is...
Liverpool John Moores University has chosen a high-profile judge as its new chancellor – although the appointment may not win many plaudits in the national press.
Podcast Powered By PodbeanOlympians Steve Cram and Bill Tancred, chancellor of the University of Sunderland and director of sport at University Campus Suffolk respectively, meet Chris Parr to talk...
Universities UK has been asked by David Willetts to undertake a review of part-time study and make urgent recommendations in response to a report which shows a “dramatic decline” in part-time...
In our market-driven world, in which the ideals of common good are disappearing, Fred Inglis reminds us that it is the public universities that are in a pivotal position to protect our society
Post-Sandy Hook, hundreds of American college presidents are taking on the gun lobby. Amid the US’ increasingly febrile and evidence-free policy debates, does the campaign signal a return to the ‘...
David Green on the risks and rewards of medical progress
This slice of college pudding, dating back to 1897, is now in the archives of Oxford Brookes University. It was originally served at the notoriously frugal Westminster College in London, a Methodist...
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A distinguished scholar of Irish literature who was also an acclaimed novelist, poet and playwright has died.Bob Welch was born in Cork on 25 November 1947 and graduated in English and Irish from...
In his critique of the sector’s approach to student visa policy (“In the twilight zone”, 21 February), Simeon Underwood suggests that the National Union of Students is “inside the [government] tent”...
In “Opus versus output” (7 March), Nicholas Till asks, can artistic practice be research? “Original composition is research” was the mantra of composers on the research assessment exercise from its...
As Wolfgang Stroebe and Miles Hewstone point out (“Primed, but not suspect”, 28 February), the chairs of the Levelt, Noort and Drenth committees tasked with investigating the fraudulent research...