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Plato at the Googleplex, by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

K. E. Gover assesses the case for the continuing relevance of Platonic thinking to modern life

Arizona State University aims to wipe out the replicants

Michael Crow on the radical change needed to build the New American University

THE podcast: Martyn Harrow interview

Source: JiscDownload the podcastChief executive of Jisc, Martyn Harrow, discusses the future of the education technology charity with Times Higher Education reporter Chris Parr.In this podcast, they...

23 October 2014

We’re watching you - But who actually benefits from the monitoring of academics?

Leonard Marsh, 1930-2014

A leading authority on primary education who served for more than 20 years as principal of what is now Bishop Grosseteste University has died

Q&A with Kim Frost

We speak to the new chair of Universities Human Resources and HR director of the University of London

An international REF? How about infinity and beyond?

Alistair McCulloch wonders if those seeking to expand research assessment beyond the UK are a bit too parochial in their ambitions

Grant winners - 23 October 2014

Royal SocietyUniversity Research FellowshipsAward winner: Robert CrainInstitution: Liverpool John Moores UniversityValue: £419,196The gaseous universe in realistic cosmological simulationsAward...

News in brief - 23 October 2014

Research assessmentHave your say on a global REFOpinions on the merits of UK academics having their research assessed alongside that of scholars from around the world are being sought by the Higher...

The week in higher education - 23 October 2014

Members of the University and College Union have voted to strike over proposed cuts to their pensions. In a ballot involving UCU members in pre-1992 universities, 78 per cent of those who voted said...

Watching but also discerning

Universities collecting data to monitor performance must be transparent and in sync with academic work and goals

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 23 October 2014

Take a cold shower

The suggestion made by two University of East Anglia students that urinating while showering could result in huge water savings (“The week in higher education”, News, 16 October) may have health...

Knowing their limits

In response to Bruce Macfarlane’s piece (“If not now, when?”, Opinion, 16 October), I come from Hong Kong, and am now living in England. I’m one of the privileged who can immigrate.People in the West...

Sociologists everywhere

Amanda Goodall and Andrew Oswald’s argument that the social sciences need a shake-up (“Time for a makeover?”, Features, 9 October) seems to have overlooked the fact that social scientists are often...