Expertise of OfS board questioned in wake of Toby Young row
Appointing right-wing journalist to Office for Students’ board over scientists is ‘surprising’ and ‘bizarre’, say senior academics
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Should we be worried that women outnumber men on campus?
There are now more women than men in higher education worldwide. While it would appear to be a victory for gender equality, this imbalance also highlights boys’ educational underachievement. Ellie...
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Ditch the old hierarchies – further and higher education belong together
Ongoing ministerial education reviews risk treating technical and academic education as separate pathways, says Quintin McKellar, and this could be to the detriment of both
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How to become a ‘vortex university’
Mark Goodwin looks at what it takes to be a ‘vortex university’, and why Exeter aspires to become one
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Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling, by David Bordwell
By borrowing and recycling ideas, old Tinseltown pioneered cinematic narrative, says Lucy Bolton
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Labour 2017: fees pledge keeps party in campaign mode, but detail is lacking
Education debate at the Labour conference in Brighton has gone beyond the easy headlines, says Andy Westwood – but important questions remain unanswered
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Interview with Cherie Blair
The leading lawyer and wife of the former British prime minister on why she applied to the LSE over Oxbridge, tuition fees and the importance of international students
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Laurie Taylor – 7 December 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Russell Group chief: we might be elite, but we’re not elitist
Research-intensive mission group can act for benefit of whole UK sector, says Tim Bradshaw
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Is the UK’s approach to open access sustainable? We must move further, faster
Without action, the UK might end up in the situation of funding both subscriptions and article-processing charges on an ongoing basis, writes Helen Blanchett
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We are in an international student market, and the UK’s share is in peril
The UK needs its universities more than ever, and the government needs to realise their importance, says Sir Keith Burnett
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How high can SUSTech fly?
Ahead of THE’s Asia Universities Summit in Shenzhen, Jack Grove visits the city known as China’s Silicon Valley to assess whether its ambitious new university could really emulate Stanford – and...
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The heavy lifting is done, but Sam Gyimah still has bridges to build
The UK’s new higher education minister needs to move beyond recent spats to prioritise science, funding and mitigating Brexit, says David Bell
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Faraday Challenge: white elephant, or future of research funding?
Science policy experts have concerns about the effectiveness of new UK government support model