Germany to give more to more of its students
Funding shifts from Länder to Berlin in an €825m overhaul. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports
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Research intelligence - Perspectives on Britain’s informal empire
Anglo-Qatari digitisation project to cast light on Britain’s ‘informal empire’. Matthew Reisz writes
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Grant winners
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Robert CernikInstitution: University of ManchesterValue: £247,737Using diffracted X-rays to form images with chemical and structural...
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Careers intelligence - Reading and questing
Time management and extensive reading can help students develop a sophisticated set of research questions. Holly Else reports
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2 October 2014
World University Rankings 2014-15
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News in brief - 2 October 2014
Research Excellence FrameworkImpact case studies, studiedA new project will look at the impact on society of academic research conducted at universities. The research, commissioned by the Higher...
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Still united but accommodating divergence
Ferdinand von Prondzynski foresees some separation of English and Scottish higher education after the referendum, but overall a shared future
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Furniture wars
“There is no connection between the two events.”That was the forceful response from our Director of Creative Finance, Mr D. C. F. Tapstock, when reporter Keith Ponting (30) suggested to him that...
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BPP’s state subsidy
I have no problem with competition from for‑profit providers such as BPP University (“John Denham: £9K fee system ‘wastes money’ ”, News, www.timeshighereducation.co.uk). However, I’ve yet to see...
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Class in Contemporary China, by David S. G. Goodman
Jonathan Mirsky on the unfairness and exploitation rife in modern Chinese society
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Don’t tell me to park my privilege
Plans for a car park permit system at Bath Spa disputed by unions
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Unveiled: papers from British residencies in the Gulf
British Library and Qatar Foundation digitisation project to unlock a treasure trove of source materials for researchers
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Visas: closing off opportunities to collaborate
Paul Wordsworth warns that the privatisation of visa applications is hampering academics’ ability to be part of an international community
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The Nobel path is not a safe one
Planning to win top laurels is a fool’s errand, so how should research be structured to best produce far-reaching results?
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Ted Belytschko, 1943-2014
A much-cited engineering researcher whose systems of prototyping helped to produce safer cars has died