Former UK-based researcher found guilty of misconduct
A former researcher at the universities of Glasgow and Liverpool has been found guilty of serious scientific misconduct by his previous university in Singapore.
A former researcher at the universities of Glasgow and Liverpool has been found guilty of serious scientific misconduct by his previous university in Singapore.

The fall in university applications could be "a societal turning-point" and the government must launch a national campaign to ensure higher education is seen as affordable, a vice-chancellor and...
University applicant numbers have continued to fall for the second consecutive year - with around 18,000 fewer people applying to higher education compared to the same time last year, new figures...
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsSciences• Award winner: Colin Campbell• Institution: University of Edinburgh• Value: £243,900Mapping local steady state redox potentials with subcellular...

A world-renowned pianist, musicologist and polymathic writer on cultural themes has died.Charles Rosen was born in New York on 5 May 19 and lived to the end of his life in the apartment he moved into...
The readers of Times Higher Education owe a huge debt of gratitude to Paul Ramsden, a consultant in teaching and learning in higher education, for solving in one short article the conundrum that has...
Regarding "The week in higher education" on 29 November. One entry stated: "Universities have largely abandoned examinations in favour of 'spoon-fed' coursework, according to an article in The Sunday...
Regarding "The world in their sights: Science without Borders", part of your recent cover feature "Boom times and golden goals" (13 December). The Science without Borders programme in the UK has...
I am sure that many in higher education identified with the UK Border Agency's recent administrative headaches ("'Illegal' students reports ignored", News in brief, 6 December), but that is where the...
Bruce Macfarlane seems unaware that the educator's role is to facilitate students' learning ("Be here now, or else: lamentable effects of student 'presenteeism'", Opinion, 13 December). In part, this...
"External examiners' anachronistic power over the PhD process can be painfully counter-productive." So wrote marketing professor Chris Hackley in the pages of Times Higher Education last year ("The...
I am sure Theresa May has in mind the example of the Daleks' methods when it comes to international students ("Seek, locate, repatriate! 'Dalek' home secretary's visa stance angers v-c", News, 20/...
A sideways look at the week’s big stories

The archives of an apartheid-era arts centre shed light on creative as well as political forces, writes Matthew Reisz from Cape Town

Well, we didn’t see that coming but Patrick McGhee did: the v-c consults the oracle and offers his forecast for the year ahead