Universal exams can fix the grade inflation crisis
With the prestige of first-class honours degrees diminished, intellectually testing national examinations are needed to identify academic high-flyers, argues Lincoln Allison
With the prestige of first-class honours degrees diminished, intellectually testing national examinations are needed to identify academic high-flyers, argues Lincoln Allison
One unlucky UK graduate is more than £230,000 deep in student debt, according to new analysis by the BBC. While students today leave university with average debts of £44,940 (before interest starts...
New government announces evaluations of science and universities after scrapping predecessor’s efforts to do likewise
Ratings reveal small group of global universities shining across disciplines
Browse the full results of the China Subject Ratings 2024 The Times Higher Education China Subject Ratings are the only performance tables that judge Chinese institutions against their global peers...
Researchers say precariously employed academics will lose out if universities are required to stump up fees for open access
With little movement at federal level, local lawmakers test long-shot strategies to stop universities giving children of alumni a foot in the door
Departmental hierarchies, job precarity and institutions’ need to protect their star professors enables bullies to thrive in Britain’s top universities, says Wyn Evans
Harvard campus drama made famous by Bryan Cranston makes European premiere as Gaza protests debate adds fresh relevance
Chinese students in the Anglosphere want to develop their careers and learn English, not to be lectured about how terrible their homeland is, says Sibei Sun
Editors express concern over dating of soil samples ‘not associated with manmade features’, but authors attack ‘unjust retraction of groundbreaking research’
The redundancies and course closures proposed at many struggling UK universities follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities whose non-commercial...
Two years on from Russia’s invasion, displaced institutions are still teaching in temporary premises and online, while many researchers work abroad. But with a host of urgent quality problems to...
Universities are not doing enough to police misconduct. We need an independent register from which bullies can be struck off, says Nicholas Rowe
Rather than ‘pre-emptively complying’ with Canberra’s stance on China, universities should contribute to a ‘nuanced’ debate