She was one pupil in 450
One in 14 independent school pupils makes it to Oxbridge. One in 450 comprehensive pupils manages to do the same. One of these few became a Labour MP. And she is appalled that most of the obstacles...
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Why do UK universities keep losing legal cases?
Some of the country’s biggest institutions have suffered bruising defeats of late despite the justice system generally favouring the powerful. What explains this losing streak and will it change...
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We need more of global science’s good and less of the bad and the ugly
Power relations would be more equitable if all leading disciplinary journals and books were published in multiple languages, says Simon Marginson
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Staffs scoops £450k
Staffordshire University has won £450,000 funding that will make the region a centre of excellence for advanced mobile-phone technologies. The regional development agency cash will fund research and...
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Lower inflation offers little reprieve on humanities fees
Incongruous Australian indexation rules to see arts students paying A$17,000 a year, unless accord’s final report produces an overhaul
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Melbourne axing 450 permanent staff to fill A$1 billion shortfall
Reductions ‘necessary to ensure that the university not only survives but thrives’
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Has there been an exodus of academics from conservative states?
Difficulties finding new roles and uprooting families complicate desires to leave states such as Florida after political meddling
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Times Higher Education’s most-read articles of 2023
International students, post-study work visas and opinion pieces captured readers’ attention this year
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Andrew Adonis attacks ‘greed’ of £450K Bath v-c
Labour peer calls for funding council intervention on Glynis Breakwell’s salary
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California ‘reclassifies workers to duck pay rises’ won in strike
Record walkout at top public US system won graduate students a new contract, but ambiguous details have left them struggling with lower-than-expected pay
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Academics and leaders split on how to promote interdisciplinarity
All agree cross-disciplinary collaboration is hard, but researchers favour material incentives while executives want cultural change, study finds
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Visa crackdown puts 450 colleges out of the international student business
More than 450 private colleges have been stopped from recruiting international students after most of them failed to sign up to the Home Office’s new rules for inspection of the sector.
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OECD chief warns green skills revolution might entrench inequality
Upskiling staff to thrive in clean-energy industries could mostly benefit graduates and high-skill workers, Andreas Schleicher tells conference
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Academics urge funding review after Toronto returns Amazon cash
University returns $450,000 gift to retail giant after investigation suggests company looked to buy credibility for fight against government regulations
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Germany finally seals ‘milestone’ publishing deal with Elsevier
Lengthy talks for opt-in read-and-publish deal, worth about €35 million a year, reached agreement as publisher warmed to open access and people involved in negotiations changed, consortium says