Phil Baty

Phil Baty, deputy editor, is responsible for all of Times Higher Education’s international coverage, including the annual World University Rankings. He is also responsible for commissioning online news and the online columnists.

He commissions opinion pieces and edits the letters pages for the weekly magazine.

Phil has been with the magazine since 1996, as reporter, chief reporter, deputy news editor and news editor. In 2007, he was a runner-up for the annual Paul Foot Award for Campaigning Journalism, run by The Guardian newspaper and Private Eye magazine. He also made the longlist for this award in its inaugural year, 2005.

In the same year, he was commended as a finalist for the Award for Outstanding Education Reporting for National Journalists, and in 2007 he was nominated for the Ted Wragg Award for Sustained Contribution to Education Journalism, both part of the annual Education Journalist of the Year Awards, run by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

Phil, who was educated at Hookergate Comprehensive School in Tyne and Wear, has a history degree from King’s College London, and a postgraduate diploma in journalism from City University London.

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