Priced out of postgraduate education
Students who want to do master’s degrees are stymied by a lack of state finance. Paul Jump investigates how funding can be fixed
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The PhD experience: this far, and no further
Five students on how doctoral study changed them and their futures
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Pay is the front line in a fight over the future
The UCU’s action is about fairness, equality and defending public higher education, say Tom Hickey and John Holmwood
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Campus close-up: Brunel University
Broad-based restructure aims to encourage interdisciplinary research collaborations
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Part-time study decline ‘set to continue’, warns key report
The dramatic decline in part-time students will continue this year, according to a report that calls for an “urgent push†to promote such study.
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World in brief - 20 February 2014
United StatesHarvard mistake hits 11,000A US university accidentally overtaxed thousands of its employees for four years in a payroll error. Owing to a mistake in the way it reported its employees’...
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News in brief
United StatesHarvard mistake hits 11,000A US university accidentally overtaxed thousands of its employees for four years in a payroll error. Owing to a mistake in the way it reported its employees’...
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China on the fast track
Beijing wants to supercharge its nation’s universities as it has its railroads, but might its ambitions falter for want of academic freedom and cultural change?
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Overt strategy for global learning
In its cover story on "Intellectual Capital" on October 3 last year, Fortune magazine argued that a major challenge facing corporations is how to figure out the worth of their collective knowledge...
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IT skills and links between industry and universities vital, says Clarke
The government's commitment to a fundamental shift in the relationship between higher education and business was reinforced at a skills launch on Tuesday. Charles Clarke, secretary of state for...
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CPMR calls for increased regional dimension to future EU research strategy
Brussels, 06 Aug 2004 The conference of peripheral maritime regions (CPMR), an association representing geographically remote areas of Europe, has expressed its surprise at the 'unambitious' regional...
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Female Tommies: The Frontline Women of the First World War, by Elisabeth Shipton
Niamh Gallagher on the women who challenged the consensus of who could serve at the front
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Any cuts to doubled FP7 budget go against Lisbon Strategy, argues Buzek report
Brussels, 16 Jan 2006 The first draft of the report on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) by the European Parliament's committee on industry, research and energy (ITRE) claims that any reduction...
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Times Higher Education's Books of 2014
The year’s best reads for work and pleasure, chosen by scholars and senior figures in the sector
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Overseas student growth ‘not as high as government hopes’
The number of international students coming to UK universities will grow at a slower rate over the next 13 years than is hoped for by the government.