Rammell attacks coalition following Ucas figures
The fall in university applications could be "a societal turning-point" and the government must launch a national campaign to ensure higher education is seen as affordable, a vice-chancellor and...
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Year-on-year fall in applications continues
University applicant numbers have continued to fall for the second consecutive year - with around 18,000 fewer people applying to higher education compared to the same time last year, new figures...
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Grant winners
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsSciences• Award winner: Colin Campbell• Institution: University of Edinburgh• Value: £243,900Mapping local steady state redox potentials with subcellular...
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Charles Rosen, 1927-2012
A world-renowned pianist, musicologist and polymathic writer on cultural themes has died.Charles Rosen was born in New York on 5 May 19 and lived to the end of his life in the apartment he moved into...
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Age of 'catastrophe'? It is already here
The readers of Times Higher Education owe a huge debt of gratitude to Paul Ramsden, a consultant in teaching and learning in higher education, for solving in one short article the conundrum that has...
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Made to measure
Regarding "The week in higher education" on 29 November. One entry stated: "Universities have largely abandoned examinations in favour of 'spoon-fed' coursework, according to an article in The Sunday...
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On the ball
Regarding "The world in their sights: Science without Borders", part of your recent cover feature "Boom times and golden goals" (13 December). The Science without Borders programme in the UK has...
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Swamped by red tape
I am sure that many in higher education identified with the UK Border Agency's recent administrative headaches ("'Illegal' students reports ignored", News in brief, 6 December), but that is where the...
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First-hand experience
Bruce Macfarlane seems unaware that the educator's role is to facilitate students' learning ("Be here now, or else: lamentable effects of student 'presenteeism'", Opinion, 13 December). In part, this...
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PhD paralysis
"External examiners' anachronistic power over the PhD process can be painfully counter-productive." So wrote marketing professor Chris Hackley in the pages of Times Higher Education last year ("The...
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Elevated concerns
I am sure Theresa May has in mind the example of the Daleks' methods when it comes to international students ("Seek, locate, repatriate! 'Dalek' home secretary's visa stance angers v-c", News, 20/...
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The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories
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Uncontained: Opening the Community Arts Project Archive
The archives of an apartheid-era arts centre shed light on creative as well as political forces, writes Matthew Reisz from Cape Town
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Predictive text and the surprising shape of things to come
Well, we didn’t see that coming but Patrick McGhee did: the v-c consults the oracle and offers his forecast for the year ahead
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Overseas presence at top of Riordan's agenda for Cardiff
New v-c of Wales’ research powerhouse is keen to sharpen focus on China, writes David Matthews