Sabbaticals: no longer so open-ended or available?
Five academics detail how taking leave of the grind has turbocharged their work – but can everyone get a break?
Five academics detail how taking leave of the grind has turbocharged their work – but can everyone get a break?
Student loansNothing to see here: governmentThe government has ruled out an “urgent” review of the sustainability of the student loans system despite being advised to do so by a group of MPs. In a...
Thirty years after Clifford Geertz assessed the state of thinking in the academy, the duty of academics to render the unspeakable unspeakable is imperative
The government should double the annual budget of its innovation agency to £1 billion so it can establish more “Catapult” centres, a new report says
Byrne wants to replace marketisation with corporatism, argues Emran Mian
USS pensionsTobacco investments under attackThe Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) should reconsider its investments in companies that sell tobacco, arms and fossil fuels, a new campaign says....
The REF’s formal assessment of the impact of academic work was highly controversial in theory: how did it play out in practice?
Plans are part of industrial strategy to steal a march on other export-driven countries
Despite the introduction of postgraduate loans, the government’s education funding aims remain a puzzle, says Nigel Carrington
First female president of the Royal Academy of Engineers hopes to change UK’s ‘sniffiness’ about applied research
But centre for advanced materials will still have “satellites” in Oxbridge and London as well as Leeds, Liverpool and Sheffield
We speak to the new vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester and former chief executive of the ESRC
United StatesMobile phones: the ‘invisible addiction’Female students in the US spend an average of 10 hours a day on their mobile phone, while their male counterparts rack up nearly eight, a study at...
Early results of 2014 vulnerable skills survey by BBSRC and MRC highlight concerns and importance of multidisciplinarity
The 2015 Times Higher Education World Academic Summit will take place in Melbourne, Australia, in partnership with the University of Melbourne, it was announced today