More than one in six international students coming to study at universities in the UK have question marks over their “genuineness”, according to the results of Home Office interviews given to a cross...
Biologists tend to overlook research that is packed with mathematical equations, a study by researchers at the University of Bristol has found.
The Council for Industry and Higher Education has announced plans to launch a National Centre for Universities and Business to strengthen links between the two sectors with the aim of driving...
By Kaustuv Basu for Inside Higher Ed
Stonewall, the equality charity, has published its latest guide to the universities it considers to have the most gay-friendly policies and support for students.
A £120 million deal has been struck with the help of a former higher education minister to build a 2,000-bed student accommodation complex that will serve Newcastle University and the University of...
Staff at the University of Salford will be on strike next Tuesday in protest against redundancies.
The universities and science minister has appealed to private investors to support overseas expansion for UK universities and stated that investment bank Goldman Sachs is “keen to investigate this...
Queen Margaret University has scooped the top prize in the annual awards honouring the sector’s finest leaders, managers and administrators.
When we said last year that we were experiencing a period of uncertainty for the sector, we probably all hoped that things would be looking up by the time of the Times Higher Education Leadership and...
Chris Jones is discomfited by the extraordinary fruits of a troubled and troubling literature
The difficulty for philosophers, trading mainly in age-old problems, is to offer something both true and interesting at the same time. Raymond Tallis manages, in the short essays that form the body...
The enduring problem of war raises two particularly vexing questions. First, why have wars, in particular civil wars with the huge economic and social costs that they impose on affected populations,...
Electronic pioneer's cyber literacy guide is lost in translation, argues Harold Thimbleby
Matthew Reisz reports on how serious games offer insights into politics, pandemics and propaganda