Asia University Rankings 2018: how did Tsinghua University claim Chinese crown?
Ellie Bothwell compares two Beijing universities, Tsinghua and Peking, to explain the former’s rise
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Top universities and researchers in perovskite solar cell research
In the first of a regular series looking at who is producing highly cited research in different areas, THE explores a subject currently deemed the ‘most prominent’ by Elsevier metricsÂ
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Don’t pity stressed students too much – academics have it worse
Growing interest in the student mental health crisis is welcome, but it is overburdened hourly paid lecturers who are most at risk of stress in universities, says Sam Christie
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Qatar's universities on the march despite Gulf turmoil
Qatar is improving its university system faster than any other world economy, explains Cesar Wazen
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UK university applications down 1 per cent at January deadline
Increased interest from EU and overseas fails to make up for shrinking 18-year-old population and reduced demand from mature students
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Force universities to offer degree apprenticeships, says Tory MP
Committee chair Robert Halfon calls for universities to offer more technical degrees or lose state funding
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‘Macron effect’ sparks international student surge for alma mater
French president is credited with being behind boom in applications to study at Sciences Po
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Philosopher: more thinking required on role of AI in education
The broad trends in AI may be unstoppable, but we must find better ways of directing and regulating them, argues Toronto’s Mark Kingwell
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Working-class academics still face discrimination
Universities must do more to tackle the class privilege that is still rife in the ranks of academia, says Louise Morley
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Research councils to retain autonomy under UKRI, says MRC nominee
Fiona Watt promises that there will be no ‘ransacking of a well-structured organisation’ in shift to new umbrella body
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‘Surge’ in European mergers as universities seek rankings boost
Desire to climb global tables is bringing many institutions together – but there are risks, expert warns
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Snobbery towards modern universities is unfair and outdated
Long-held beliefs about the UK’s hierarchy of institutions do not stand up to scrutiny, and hold back progress, argues Edward Peck
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Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century, by LaDale C. Winling
Flora Samuel on a study exploring the conflict that higher education institutions can cause in cities
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Portraits from Life: Modernist Novelists and Autobiography, by Jerome Boyd Maunsell
Charlotte Jones is fascinated by an ‘experiment’ that ‘reconstructs the act of remembrance’ and brings its subjects back to life
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Books interview: Joan Taylor
The professor of Christian origins and Second Temple Judaism and author of ‘What Did Jesus Look Like?’ on puzzles, a chance encounter with ‘Jesus the Jew’ and 1st-century fashion