Accredit where it's due
In 2003, the University of Exeter offered the UK's first undergraduate degree producing specialist renewable-energy engineers. Since then, it has embraced many of the elements John Turner emphasises...
In 2003, the University of Exeter offered the UK's first undergraduate degree producing specialist renewable-energy engineers. Since then, it has embraced many of the elements John Turner emphasises...
It is excellent to see that part-time study has finally made the headlines ("The Cinderella students" et al, 10 June). Despite being one of the foci of the UK's widening-participation agenda, the...
I was dismayed to read Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's miserable attack on Prince Andrew and Prince Harry for apparently not conforming to his academic expectations ("Duke of moral hazards", 3 June).Both...
How nice to be a grant winner, especially if you are one of those listed in Times Higher Education's weekly roll of honour. However, for those of us who have tried but never won, you might consider...
Tony Bruce of the Employers Pension Forum states with respect to the Universities Superannuation Scheme that "there is a need for a rational debate on the necessity for change" (Letters, 10 June). He...
Your obituary of my former colleague Wynne Godley (10 June) failed to mention his sense of humour. He would have smiled at your description of him as the director of the department of planned, rather...
Thanks to Martin Mills for pointing out the idiocy of the Blog Confidential columns ("Affair comment", Letters, 3 June). I am constantly torn between thinking "this must be a joke" and "is this meant...

Asian higher education is on the rise in a success story that is shaking up the global order. Simon Marginson explains the importance of the Confucian model to the region's progress, while Philip...
Although his reforms have attracted criticism, Richard Descoings, the head of Sciences Po, tells Atossa Araxia Abrahamian that he is determined to fashion a modern, outward-looking institution with a...
In an austere climate for publishing, one innovation is booming: brief studies of single films or TV shows. Diane Negra considers the commercial and scholarly implications

A pattern for success - Asia’s universities are honing a design to put them in the top rank
Hefce study identifies unexplained achievement gap between white and ethnic-minority students. Rebecca Attwood reports

By David Moltz, for Inside Higher Ed
Centre-right group’s alternative Budget presents its vision of a sector free from government control and funded by income from courses priced at their ‘true value’. Simon Baker reports

After considering criteria that demand work ‘well above world standard’, Tara Brabazon concludes that an era of interplanetary scholarship must be upon us