The week in higher education – 27 April 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
Brussels, 28 May 2002 Council Regulation (EC) No 876/2002 of 21 May 2002 setting up the Galileo Joint Undertaking (OJ L138/1 28.5.2002). Full text [NB links expire 45 days from publication date]...
Farah Karim-Cooper – one of the UK’s few ethnic minority Shakespeare professors – reflects on being an outsider in a discipline not known for its non-white faces and ponders how diversity can be...
Twenty-five universities and institutes in Spain, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are to build solar power installations over the next three years as part of a European Union project...
As inflation soars and funding lags, administrators look for salvation in looming budget
As AI makes giant strides, threatening to digitise a whole host of graduate careers, the need to ensure that human employees can regularly upskill and retrain is more urgent than ever. An early...
Each year, Times Higher Education magazine, the most trusted source for the university community, produces the World University Rankings. This highly respected and keenly anticipated league table is...
ChatGPT must compel humanities scholars to rethink their acceptance of intellectual mediocrity and lax standards, says James Walker
Encouraging graduates into teaching would bring a ready-made army of advocates for university study into daily contact with pupils, says Jane White
Amid nationwide campaign to restrict LGBTQ rights, head of public institution forbids fundraiser on grounds that drag is ‘misogyny’
Sector’s progress in appointing women to top positions will help address remaining gender imbalances, but only with more work
Telling precariously employed literature scholars to just hang in there doesn’t cut it in a job market as bad as today’s, says Chris Townsend
Belated moves to mitigate precarity are welcome but may come too late for one scholar exhausted by insecurity
Disquiet as sandstone university hires interstate corporate lawyer to bargain on bosses’ behalf
Students often have no choice but to include professors who have had no input into papers as co-authors, says Roohola Ramezani