A growth spurt with challenges
The uncapping of student numbers may not result in a surge across the sector - but things are changing all the same
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Diversity in boardroom
The editorial in last week’s Times Higher Education was quite simply excellent (“It’s not just bad, it’s wrong”, 2 April). I am delighted that it recognised the unfairness and lack of gender equality...
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Zeroing in on zero hours
Ed Miliband should be applauded for his pledge to provide workers with a proper contract if they work regular hours on a zero-hours contract for 12 weeks. Casualisation is higher education’s dirty...
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If it’s broke, fix it
Fred Inglis claims that “nobody provides any account of what to do, of how to prevent an ideologically demented and morally unprincipled government and its stooges from turning an internationally...
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鶹 Office hurdles
Unfortunately, Miwa Hirono has become the victim of Daily Mail-peddled nationalistic, anti-immigrant, political ideology, which has Home Office staff lawyers obliged to appeal every immigration...
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‘Failing’ institutions will not be fined
Proposal for financial penalties to maintain standards is rejected following sector-wide consultation
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N8 remains optimistic despite REF slide
The director of a partnership of research-intensive universities is upbeat about future outlook
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Getting down to business, Australian style, may be the only option
Association of University Administrators conference hears that too many UK institutions are ‘emulators, not leaders’ in disruptive times
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Degree withheld in Worcester fees dispute
University may apply to lift stay on small claims court pursuit of graduate determined not to pay for ‘inadequate’ tuition
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Campus close-up: Royal Holloway, University of London
A new doctoral centre will examine Magna Carta’s influence in the digital age
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Paris-Saclay: a mega-university with ambitions to match
Dominique Vernay, the institution’s president, talks to Jack Grove about why 19 French institutions are stronger as one
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Online research: the dangers
Academics face issues around privacy and identity in the digital world
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Varying degrees of academic freedom
Context and motive are key to concerns about limits on freedom within and without the academy
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What’s in a grade?
Students need to understand assessment criteria in order to spot weaknesses in their own work, says David Carless