Politics

Lower sticker price for degrees would do nothing to help poorer students, says London Economics analysis

New legislation will extend Israeli law to academic institutions in the West Bank

Compound interest rates of 6.1 per cent on student loans are unfair and create a debt trap responsible for today’s worsening mental health crisis, says Estelle Clarke

A law graduate’s attempt to sue the University of Oxford for £1 million over ‘inadequate teaching’ sheds far more light on how students learn than current TEF metrics, says Gill Evans

New research challenges narrative that in recent political battles, university leavers have tilted to the left

Attending the criminal trial of a dissident scholar brings home the inhumanity of Turkey’s academic purge, says Masi Noor, and underlines the importance of showing solidarity

The former Soviet state’s National Academy of Sciences is too focused on its own survival to improve its research performance, says Ararat Osipian

Accepting that your doctoral studies will sometimes take second place to family commitments is part of the journey of a PhD student mother, says Annabelle Workman

Union fears changes will increase selectivity in university system

Committee chair Robert Halfon calls for universities to offer more technical degrees or lose state funding

French president is credited with being behind boom in applications to study at Sciences Po

As Theresa May concludes her trade visit to China, Tim Bradshaw reflects on how research-intensive universities have paved the way for increased East-West trade

Devolved administration’s move puts pressure on Westminster government to confirm post-Brexit arrangements in England

Scholar says universities must take responsibility for ‘polemic debate’, while other experts reject idea that cap on international recruitment is needed

But sophisticated New Zealand analysis also belies assumption that highly educated international students are most likely to find local employment, says Roger Smyth

India has made clear that education is key to a future trade deal; the UK must take note, says Lord Bilimoria

Better policy would result from improved global scrutiny of student migration, says Rajika Bhandari

In survey of 15,000 university staff, just 2.6 per cent supported the government’s higher education policies

Higher education minister questions future of $1 billion scheme, as focus shifts to three other new institutions

Ana Mari Cauce says collaborations allow universities to be ‘less solely dependent’ on the federal administration

Institutes could be labelled ‘political campaigners’ in new law, warns industry body

Universities South Africa head says it is too early to say whether institutions will successfully roll out new system

Not every course takes three years to complete, says Charles Prince, so we must look at ways to deliver accelerated programmes

Dorothy Bishop wishes people would stop reinforcing the idea that universities are places of privilege where the staff sit idly around thinking ‘great thoughts’

Mary Curnock Cook says universities are paying the price ‘for not demonstrably shifting their priorities from research’

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

New legislation would bring higher education institutions in the West Bank under Israeli law

Canadian scientists’ impressive campaign for increased basic science funding risks splintering as victory looms, says Jim Woodgett

Barring controversial speakers has a long heritage and the Office for Students should be very wary of cracking down on it, argues Evan Smith

Collaboration within the Gulf region was rare but now the few oases in the desert risk running dry, says Hilal Lashuel 

Introduced to help boost technology transfer amid renewed political focus on ‘industrial strategy’, the KEF aims to complement the REF and TEF. But how will it work? Is it even necessary? And is the UK really underperforming at commercialising its research? Rachael Pells reports

Aston University head warns mooted cuts to tuition fees in England will only benefit wealthiest graduates

With student numbers falling as fees rise, drastic action is needed to widen participation, says Claire Callender

Average salary of university leader in country stands at A$890,000 (£509,000)

Muddled thinking behind the creation of the new Office for Students risks damaging the UK's world-class universities, says Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

Joel Mullan shares some of the ways that digital technologies could address the challenges posed by accelerated degree courses

In first public appearance since his appointment, Sam Gyimah claims Labour’s plan to scrap fees is unrealistic

Working with pen and paper and cut off from the outside world, Ali Kaya wrote three papers, re-deriving physical formulas from scratch

The politics lecturer talks Corbyn, computer games and reggae music

President’s broadside against Boğaziçi University raises questions over Islamisation of institutions and international links

Institutional leaders tell survey that current avalanche of criticism ‘lacks substance’

Pakistani journals lack the professionalism and expertise to support a thriving knowledge economy, say Abdur Rehman Cheema and Mehvish Riaz

The UK’s new higher education minister needs to move beyond recent spats to prioritise science, funding and mitigating Brexit, says David Bell

The government’s unilateral move to rein in costs is the inevitable result of a volatile and emotive political climate, says Warren Bebbington

Presidential elections are looming, but government pressure on universities should ensure that students pose no threat to the ruling regime, says Ararat Osipian

John Morgan travels to the University of California, Berkeley, a key battleground in the campus culture wars, to assess the mood towards US higher education and the threats that it faces

Cabinet reshuffle offers universities the chance of a relationship reset before they are likely caught in the first swell of a global wave of funding reviews

Baroness Deech tells parliamentary committee that UK universities are ‘complicit’ in censoring lawful speech while giving hate preachers access to students

'Mind-boggling' that the Department for Education does not regularly collect data on attendance, committee hears

Three student candidates deemed 'appointable' to regulator's board were overlooked in favour of engineering undergraduate

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

Experts warn that prospective recruits may choose to study elsewhere if they do not feel welcome

Privately run vocational courses likely to be big beneficiaries of Gratuidad, which supports poorer students

Economics scholar estimates impact of new excise tax on university endowments 

Immigration minister who led crackdown on ‘abuse’ of student visa system says it ‘serves nobody’ to pretend students do not count towards figures

Dorothy Bishop will not miss Jo Johnson, but is under no illusions that new minister Sam Gyimah will overturn any of his reforms

As Brexit threatens funding shortfall, European Commission appears convinced research is better done continent-wide

The latest edition of Times Higher Education discussed by the editorial team

Former Downing Street policy guru Nick Timothy says former education secretary resisted university funding review and potential tuition fee cuts

Chancellor of world’s biggest higher education system sees Trump immigration plan as ‘antithesis’ of American values