Wales wants governors not cheerleaders
Reviews foreshadow change in the governance and shape of sector and HEFCW. Hannah Fearn reports
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#loveHE: The academy trek: a transformative journey into a world of potential
Sir Patrick Stewart describes the delights of higher education, the dangers it faces and how Huddersfield lured him home
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Daytime TV: Realm of the senses
The web is a force for good - or not, learns Gary Day. Are young people distracted or thinking differently?
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Top institutions in materials science
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, January 1999-October 2009
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Work less: save more
Proposals by the University of Sheffield that academics adopt a shorter working week have been enthusiastically endorsed by our vice-chancellor.He told our reporter Keith Ponting (45 hours) that...
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From our cold, dead hands
America's gun culture is a symptom of its deep political malaise, says Alan Ryan
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Research intelligence: 'High-level oversight'
Adrian Smith tells Zoë Corbyn about BIS' move to seek the sector's advice when allocating the science budget
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Love HE? Let's count the ways #loveHE
Higher education's many contributions to the UK are too often missed - we hope to help change that with our campaign
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From where I sit: Their profits, our loss
The internationalisation of higher education is a double-edged sword: it has the potential to enrich and deprive the values of higher education simultaneously.Thus, while the global exchange of...
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David Musselwhite, 1940-2010
A leading literary critic described by an admirer as "a bit of an oddball" who was "not afraid to be an original thinker" has died.David Musselwhite was born on 3 December 1940 and graduated in...
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Noblesse oblige
The current brouhaha surrounding Lord Ashcroft and his non-domicile status should not be allowed to obscure the fact that he has made a valuable contribution to the field of education.The...
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Old as you feel
I feel I must write to say how depressing I found reading your latest Textbook Guide. The book entitled The 1960s: A Documentary Reader was classified under history. Am I really "history" at the age...
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Playground for the rich
James Stanfield has come up with an interesting idea that universities should be expected to raise money locally, rather than receive it from the Treasury (a "public subsidy", as he calls it) ("...
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Unto the breach
Your article "Bournemouth academic's constructive dismissal claim upheld" (www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 26 February) has generated a great deal of comment.Several of the views expressed dwell on...