Willetts wants more overseas students
The universities and science minister has said that he expects the number of international students at UK universities to grow.
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Federal block on overseas agents 'harms' US colleges
The US Department of State has been accused of making “ill-informed and misguided” policy statements against the use of international student recruitment agents and “doing significant harm to the...
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Open access will bankrupt us, publishers’ report claims
Publishers of humanities and social science journals could go bankrupt if all academic papers became freely available after six months, a report commissioned by publishers has warned.
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Top civil servant to lead University of London
A senior civil servant in charge of implementing the government’s higher education policies has been named the new vice-chancellor of the University of London.
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100 Under 50 Rankings 2012 methodology
The 100 Under 50 table is built on the criteria used for the World University Rankings, but with a twist The Times Higher Education 100 Under 50 uses the same range of 13 performance indicators to...
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Universities welcome charity tax relief U-turn
The government has scrapped plans to cap the amount of tax relief individuals can claim from charitable donations.
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Trauma: A Social Theory
"Human beings are storytelling animals," sociologist Jeffrey Alexander tells us halfway through this treatise on the nature of trauma in Western societies. The type of stories we tell ourselves and...
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The Harm in Hate Speech
This is a wonderful book. It conveys complex ideas in an accessible and convincing way. Perhaps I was easy to convince, being one of those who fall on the pro hate-speech laws side of the debate to...
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When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity
State security blankets fail to make us safe and do many of us harm, argues Irma van der Ploeg
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The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements
Radicalism characteristically runs in cycles, and after the post-1991 quiescence, the pursuit of democracy has re-emerged in the Arab Spring, in Tibet, Rangoon and Moscow, in the Occupy Wall Street...
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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Halfway through reading this monograph I instinctively did what Leah Price says people do with books: I used it as a prop to fend off the unwanted overtures of a friendly tourist on a train. That is...
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THE 100 Under 50: All hail the new breed
Phil Baty celebrates the universities that have reached the top of the global academy in decades, not centuries
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THE 100 Under 50: Speed from a standing start
Free from tradition and baggage, a wave of upstarts are challenging their elders. Phil Baty investigates
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THE 100 Under 50: From zero to hero
Achieving world-class status is a marathon, not a sprint, but notes Jamil Salmi, rapid progress can be made with the right regimen - particularly when starting from scratch
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THE 100 Under 50: Youth ventures
Phil Baty explains how the 100 Under 50 ranking was created and emphasises the dynamism of the table