The fragile generation and the coddling of young minds
Jonathan Haidt tells Matthew Reisz how a moral culture of ‘safetyism’ took root in today’s students, who view the use of any word that can cause offence as an act of violence
Jonathan Haidt tells Matthew Reisz how a moral culture of ‘safetyism’ took root in today’s students, who view the use of any word that can cause offence as an act of violence
Times Higher Education’s first major global survey of university staff views on work-life balance finds academics feeling stressed and underpaid, and struggling to fit time for personal relationships...
Texas-born scholar Angelia Wilson talks to Matthew Reisz about the changing face of political studies, Trump and the Christian Right, and a Bible Belt road trip
International education is Australia’s third-largest export industry, worth more than A$20 billion, and is set for further growth driven by current geopolitics. Jack Grove reports on how...
Eight scientists share the secrets of being a successful principal investigator
We talk about helping shape a country’s direction and the rise of managerialism in HE with the Bingham Centre’s new director
The University of California System remains a model blueprint despite Berkeley’s travails, and one the UK would do well to copy, says Alan Ryan
How valid are fears that financial conflicts of interest are damaging confidence in academic research?
Student numbers will be uncapped from 2015. Chris Havergal examines arguments for and against expansion
Nicholas Till acknowledges his debt to Margaret Thatcher and explains why he regrets his Cambridge degree
Students wishing to progress to master’s degree courses are stymied by the lack of state finance, and numbers of home students are falling. The government has realised that it cannot ignore the...
Students who want to do master’s degrees are stymied by a lack of state finance. Paul Jump investigates how funding can be fixed
Welsh institution helps keep the maritime economy afloat as applications remain buoyant
Seven men rule the Middle Kingdom, but why them? Jonathan Mirsky on a study of Party potentates
The provost-elect of Gresham College examines the institution’s long and surprising history