The prestige that attracts Chinese students to the UK is at risk
The UK’s strong higher education reputation has not been achieved by current policies, says Toby Miller
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UK university leaders lavish praise on Xi Jinping
As China's president visits the UK, heads of UCL, LSE and the Royal Society all warm to his slogan "the Chinese Dream"
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AC Grayling: why New College of the Humanities teamed up with Southampton Solent
Chris Parr reports as the philosopher talks of big plans for his fledgling institution
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Cut university budgets to fund FE? Skills education belongs in both
Policy Exchange’s report shows that damaging stereotypes of HE and FE persist, writes Joy Carter
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NUS ‘deeply disappointed’ by UUK stance on Osborne loan freeze
V-cs fail to oppose repayment threshold plan attacked as ‘unfair retrospective change’ by GuildHE
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University staff in line for 1 per cent pay increase
Above-inflation deal for university staff still lags behind pay increases seen elsewhere in the UK this year
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Subject Ranking 2015-2016: Arts and humanities methodology
The ߣߣÊÓƵ World University Rankings 2015-2016 arts and humanities subject ranking includes a wide range of narrower subject areas. The full list of arts and humanities subjects used...
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Papers in economics ‘not reproducible’
Fears that discipline is particularly susceptible to statistical ‘hacking’ of data to gain a positive result
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Students in armed service units ‘much more likely to be privately educated’
Researchers warn that benefits of enrolling in Officer Training Corps could be limited to ‘elite’
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Wellcome Trust to fund more long-term projects to counter ‘pressure to publish’
Director Jeremy Farrar argues that current research culture damages scientists’ ability ‘to dream’
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Russell Group access: poorest fall further behind
Only 5 per cent of school leavers who are eligible for free school meals gain places at Russell Group institutions
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UK universities are already China’s best partners in the West
It is no surprise that universities and science are high on the agenda for Chinese president Xi Jinping’s state visit to the UK this week, says Alice Gast
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Reinventing higher education: the battle for diversity
Chris Parr writes from the Reinventing Higher Education conference in Madrid
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Universities need to be ‘ambitious’ to fix the UK’s innovation system
Campuses are one of the ‘strongest bits of the innovation system’ and will be crucial to its ‘rebuild’, conference hears
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PhD students run professors close in Twitter popularity contest
Study finds that, while senior academics tend to have the most followers on social networking site, the most junior researchers are not far behind