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14 December

OfS won’t charge for free speech complaints against universities

14 December

Norway budget: students given more support but research funds cut

14 December

Dismissing ‘privileged’ views is myopic and unethical

The concept of privilege is much more complex and dynamic than those who wield it often assume, says Noam Schimmel

By Noam Schimmel

14 December

A plane flying over a departures and arrivals sign, symbolising internationalisation

UK’s post-study visa ‘not attracting skilled workers’

13 December

Blocks with "fact" and "fake" written on them, symbolising research culture

All of the REF – not just 25% of it – must drive a better research culture

13 December

Times Higher Education rankings: 2024 schedule

Two new tables will be published in 2024

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Digital Universities US 2024

6 May - 8 May 2024

St. Louis, MO, United States

Building technical skills across universities starts with understanding what is possible

By John Miles

Harvard keeps Claudine Gay as president, despite growing concerns

By Liam Knox for Inside Higher Ed

12 December

Using scholarships for tuition discounts ‘getting out of hand’

12 December

Conservatives aim at Harvard and MIT heads after Magill quits

11 December

Universities follow student interest in social media with courses

By Jon Marcus

11 December

Can England’s university funding system be fixed?

4 January

OfS won’t charge for free speech complaints against universities

14 December

Norway budget: students given more support but research funds cut

14 December

Coventry set to cut nearly £100 million as sector crisis bites

13 December

Tokyo axes tuition fees for large families to boost universities

By Pola Lem

12 December

Qatar universities report spike in applications after World Cup

10 December

Scholars see politics behind Iran’s India branch campus move

By Pola Lem

8 December

Science in Gaza was always hard. Now it’s impossible

By Sheren Saad

5 December

International education drives surprise boost to Australia’s GDP

13 December

Campus catering ‘too expensive and unhealthy’

13 December

‘Weight of responsibility’ in choosing a new vice-chancellor

12 December

Australia cuts post-study work visas by two years

11 December

News

Faces of 2023. People who shaped higher education headlines. Left to right: Edward Blum, Elizabeth Magill, Irene Tracey, Megan Davis, Sakhela Buhlungu, Sufyan Tayeh, Theo Baker, Sam Altman, Siouxsie Wiles, Sabyasachi Das

Faces of 2023: who shaped higher education headlines this year

Times Higher Education journalists name the academics and administrators at the heart of the sector’s biggest debates over the past 12 months

14 December

OfS won’t charge for free speech complaints against universities

But institutions may face paying regulator’s costs under new proposals outlined by England’s new free speech champion

14 December

Worker attached by a lanyard to the tree and wearing a protective hard hat cutting a damaged maple tree branch

Norway budget: students given more support but research funds cut

Rise in financial aid of 10 per cent ‘like an early Christmas present’ amid rising costs, says national student group

14 December

Coventry set to cut nearly £100 million as sector crisis bites

13 December

UK’s post-study visa ‘not attracting skilled workers’

13 December

Aberdeen saves joint language degrees after criticism

13 December

London Met offers year of fully paid maternity leave

13 December

Campus catering ‘too expensive and unhealthy’

13 December

Halfon: UK doing everything possible to attract overseas students

13 December

King’s College London Portsmouth branch campus to train doctors

By Jack Grove

13 December

International education drives surprise boost to Australia’s GDP

13 December

Pioneering private university pivots to new African challenges

13 December

Can England’s university funding system be fixed?

Long-frozen, loan-funded tuition fees are neither covering course costs nor, arguably, fairly recognising the benefits of higher education to society and employers. But is there an alternative that is politically and economically viable in a likely UK general election year? John Morgan reports

4 January

Faces of 2023: who shaped higher education headlines this year

Times Higher Education journalists name the academics and administrators at the heart of the sector’s biggest debates over the past 12 months

A woman peeks through a grey wall to a magnificent castle on the other side

Higher education needs more portfolio academics

With academics feeling the strain from higher workloads, the days when scholars had time to write novels or run businesses seem increasingly distant. Lincoln Allison suggests that universities have far more to gain than to lose by allowing their academics to broaden their experience and earn extra income

Opinion

By Adrian Kreutz

Why do academics feel the need to speak out about political crises?

A series of open letters on Israel-Gaza underlines that scholars rarely have superior knowledge, moral insight or political acumen, says Adrian Kreutz

15 December

Dismissing ‘privileged’ views is myopic and unethical

The concept of privilege is much more complex and dynamic than those who wield it often assume, says Noam Schimmel

All of the REF – not just 25% of it – must drive a better research culture

Everyone, from funders to individuals, has a role to play in building a research system that operates with integrity and robustness, says Alexandra Freeman

Closing the UK’s graduate route will hit Indian enrolment and UK growth

By Sanam Arora

12 December

Academics must help prepare ministers to make better decisions

By David Finlay

11 December

The demise of modern languages has been greatly exaggerated

By Wendy Ayres-Bennett

8 December

UK, US law must fix clash between privacy rights and protection of life

By Iria Giuffrida

7 December

World policy

A crashed F-16 in Afghanistan, symbolising Afghan academics' declining optimism

Afghan universities are losing their scholars and students

As academics are replaced by religious scholars, those that remain fear the worst, while student interest is plummeting, says an Afghan observer

Editor's pick

Illustration: a businessman tries to stop a line of falling dominoes, being pushed over by a giant hand

Lamenting the failings of business schools isn’t enough. We need to act

Beyond despair’s cold comfort lies the possibility of doing things differently, starting with what is within our own power, say Carl Rhodes and Alison Pullen

The newsroom blog

White cliffs of Dover covered in UK banknotes

Biting the hand that feeds HE

With its funding system on life support, and its ‘science superpower’ ambitions, the UK must stop treating international talent as an imposition

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Talking leadership

By Tiya Thomas-Alexander

Julie Sanders on making the vice-chancellor job ‘less lonely’

Royal Holloway head discusses decentralising university leadership and tapping into the creative industry in Surrey

4 December

Ahmad Dallal on encouraging career changes

The American University in Cairo’s first Arab leader on helping people reskill, serving the community and taking on the ‘necessary evil’ of administration

10 November

Michel Mawad, president of Lebanese American University

Michel Mawad on riding out the storm in Lebanon

Michel Mawad fights to keep the lights on at Lebanese American University and its teaching hospitals, and to keep staff while supporting students amid economic and political crisis. But he’s not giving up

By Pola Lem

2 November

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