How to teach students to think beyond their subject
The Humboldt University of Berlin, the historical home of interdisciplinarity, is experimenting with new ways to encourage a broader perspectiveÂ
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The hangover: academic bad behaviour bites back in class
Study finds that students who witness lecturers misbehaving are more likely to display incivility in lectures or seminars
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National Student Survey 2017: campuses omitted after NUS boycott
Students’ unions achieve goal in teaching excellence framework protest at Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield, and eight other institutions
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Any representation is too much for some Mary Beard critics
Vitriol directed at Cambridge professor of Classics on Twitter is part of wider battle to politicise diversity, says Conrad Brunstrom
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Balancing the books: keeping enterprise going in the age of Brexit
Post-Brexit university funding issues are about more than the big pots of research cash, writes Gurpreet Jagpal
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Secrecy and isolation: the formula for innovative science?
Professor cites Soviet achievements as evidence of how detachment from mainstream scholarship can foster innovation
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Research funders urged to act on short-term contracts
Staff covering for academics on leave are often given no time to conduct research themselves
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Offshore students ‘no substitute for UK-based learners’
Analysis shows that UK’s income from higher education taught overseas is a small part of £13 billion export industry
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Video: how can India improve its higher education system?
Indu Shahani speaks to Times Higher Education at the 2017Â THE Innovation & Impact Summit
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Students are still afraid to report sexual assault
Many students aren’t reporting sexual harassment or assault on campus despite efforts to tackle the problem, say Hareem Ghani and Graham Towl
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Jisc Futures: what will research look like in 2035?
Joanna Dally and Frances Downey imagine the research culture of the future
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Alistair Jarvis named as Universities UK chief executive
Former deputy steps up to lead as Brexit and funding challenges loom