Undergraduates ‘should be taught entrepreneurship’
Universities should teach undergraduates how to start up companies, the prime minister’s enterprise advisor has said.
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Students ‘need more say in running universities’
Students and academics need to be much more involved in the management and improvement of universities if the future of higher education is to be safeguarded.
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Durham’s former head of alumni relations joins cancer charity
Tim McInnis, the former director of the alumni relations office at Durham University, has left the institution to join a cancer charity.
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Gove receives ‘bad academia’ backlash
Academics have been making their voice heard on Twitter after education secretary Michael Gove mocked 100 university professors who had criticised his plans to reform the national curriculum.
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Russell Group continues to fall short on access benchmarks
Three-quarters of Russell Group universities are failing to meet benchmarks on numbers of state school pupils, according to new figures.
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DfE pledges more money on school-led teacher training
Michael Gove has reiterated his desire to move initial teacher training towards school-led providers by pledging an extra £10 million for schools to train the next generation of teachers.
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Galloway raises Harlem Shake sacking in Commons
Outspoken MP George Galloway has tabled an early day motion calling for a University of Oxford college to reinstate a library invigilator who was sacked for failing to stop students film an internet...
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THE podcast: 21 March 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanPart-time student numbers, academics’ school reports, and commercialising research all feature on this Times Higher Education issue review. Chris Parr is joined by editor...
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Employability agenda isn’t working
Steve Sarson’s first-years were tasked with a CV exercise on study time, so he reminded them of the alternatives to the market
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US watchdogs, show more teeth or face fed pound
Obama’s State of the Union address draws line in sand, QAA conference hears
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University of the People on course for stability
Founder of free online university confident despite Mooc competition
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From 'no hope' to Nobel
Nobel prizewinner Sir John Gurdon, who famously did not have his potential recognised, and five other scholars recall their school days and the characters that inspired them one way or another
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The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and For Humanism by A. C. Grayling
Martin Cohen asks what is the point of using logic to dismantle religious belief?
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Women make up a tiny fraction of all mathematics professors
UK women made up 40 per cent of A-level maths students in 2011 but just 6 per cent of professors in the subject, data collated for the London Mathematical Society show
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Still sing the songs of protest
Attempts to crush dissent, silence alternative thinking and promote conformity jeopardise higher education’s future