Nightmare at 20,000ft
Toby Miller recalls a paralysing encounter with terror in the skies and asks: in my shoes, would you have reacted differently?
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Grant winners - 25 April 2013
Leverhulme TrustMajor Research FellowshipsAward winner: Paul HenleyInstitution: University of ManchesterValue: £141,361The silent time machine: recovering early ethnographic filmAward winner: Paul...
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BBC got it right and LSE lost perspective
The LSE’s complaints about being kept in the dark about undercover reporting in North Korea are peevish, Tim Luckhurst argues
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Re: your REF impact request
Paul Magrs was flabbergasted when an institution he hadn’t heard from in years asked if it could use his work to show impact. Here is his reply
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Tuition fees: a human rights issue
Geraldine Van Bueren says international law could help opponents of rising tuition costs in their battle
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25 April 2013
Do you think this is working? The merits of the viva interrogated
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The things that matter most
Among the factors that make students (and others) happy is community, hard as it may be to measure
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Are PhD vivas still fit for purpose?
The viva, the final hurdle to gaining a PhD, is labour-intensive, not conducted to any national standard and is dreaded by students who fear an examiner will capriciously halt their career. Is it...
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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life by Jonathan Sperber
Sheila Rowbotham on a crisp portrait of a restless thinker who was neither infallible nor prophetic
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THE Student Experience Survey 2013
The Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2013 shows a responsive attitude and landmark infrastructure projects help to create contentment. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Accentuate for-profit positives, eliminate negatives
Thinktank calls on federal government to level the playing field
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York v-c Brian Cantor to join Bradford
Brian Cantor, the vice-chancellor of York University, is to take charge of the University of Bradford as his next post.
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Libel reforms set to become law
A bill to reform the libel system in England and Wales is set to become law after completing its passage through the Houses of Parliament.
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University participation rate hits record high
The proportion of young people accessing higher education hit a record high of 49 per cent as students scrambled to avoid last year’s tuition fee hikes, a new study says.