Politics

Carolyn Fairbairn’s UUK speech will also criticise Labour’s plans to abolish tuition fees in England

Pay ‘furore’ could deter top researchers from coming to UK, Janet Beer warns

Eric Royal Lybeck says the Russell Group and UUK do not represent academics and calls for a comprehensive voice representing the professional interests of scholars

Louise Richardson says it is ‘completely mendacious’ to suggest higher tuition fees have driven inflation in executive pay

Latest evidence overseas students are being put off US universities by political situation

Universities must support and help the next generation of working-class researchers come through academia, says Lisa Mckenzie

Edward Peck looks at the findings of UUK’s Review of the Teaching Excellence Framework

Driving force in ‘edgy, self-confident’ city’s regeneration rallies sector support for Northern Powerhouse

We share what 50 Nobel prizewinners think about issues facing science, universities and the world, from populist politics and researcher mobility, to artificial intelligence and threats to humankind

Times Higher Education poll of globe's greatest minds highlights threat of divided politics to academia and research

Universities must communicate better if they are to avoid being presented as part of a ‘distant and malevolent elite’, says Dame Minouche Shafik

A survey of 50 laureates is full of insight, warnings and the can-do attitudes powering ‘beautiful minds’

UA warns government plans counteract its own science and innovation agenda

University of Debrecen bestows honour following involvement in Russian-funded nuclear plant

New UUK chief executive issues rallying call in first speech

Professor warns full university status for complementary medicine institution would ‘downgrade credibility’ of UK sector

Witwatersrand conference hears that scholars have much to learn from material that activists are seeking to make public

Meeting with representatives of the Cuban exile community have helped shaped plans for its flagship research institute

The battle is not over for universities, but this week’s figures on international students are vindication for an embattled HE sector, says Sir Keith Burnett 

MAC commission seen as attempt to secure more open stance, enabled by exit of PM’s former adviser

New analysis of border check data suggest vast majority of international students leave country or stay legally after finishing courses

Foreign providers plan was misguided, but domestic selective funding option brings huge challenges, say experts

Ministers back University of Law, Arden sales to Netherlands-registered GUS, as BPP decision awaited

Announcement comes as new exit check data expected to show low numbers of student ‘overstayers’

Don’t blame vice-chancellors for their salaries – we need to rethink where power lies in universities, says Tom Cutterham

With the Hungarian government clamping down on universities and championing labourers over philosophers, David Matthews meets those living with the consequences

Politics has become overly dominated by graduates, who increasingly only mingle with each other, says author

Disgust at far-right violence at University of Virginia prompts stronger stance

Southampton Solent University’s Tere Daly responds to the former political adviser’s article in today’s Daily Telegraph

Remuneration committees should pay less attention to other institutions when setting their leaders’ pay, says Nick Hillman

Replacing England’s tuition fee system with a cheaper and fairer alternative is not as difficult as many claim, says Andrew Adonis

Kurdistan shows that post-conflict countries can build a thriving higher education sector by working with foreign partners, says Dlawer Ala’Aldeen

UK needs an antidote to London dominance and toxic deindustrialisation, says John Morgan

UK academic based in Pyongyang says US travel ban may be fatal for North Korea’s only private higher education institution

Team sent to investigate rule changes that could close Budapest’s Central European University finds that they were made ‘without very strong reasons’

Expensive initiative criticised as 'defying logic' in cash-strapped country

Law lecturer warns that UK-EU student deal could be seen as benefit for ‘elite and middle class’

Racist protests have been growing in visibility on campuses over the past year

Senate report confirms package including funding cuts, fee rises will need crossbench support to pass

The effectiveness of the NSS boycott means it is now time for universities to sit up and listen, says Sorana Vieru

Australian legislation proposes to lower the country’s generous loan repayment threshold – but some argue that it should rise even higher, says Andrew Norton

The subject-level teaching excellence framework could lead to a lot of stress for no great gains over the institution-level TEF, says Andrew McRae

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Students’ unions achieve goal in teaching excellence framework protest at Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield, and eight other institutions

Vitriol directed at Cambridge professor of Classics on Twitter is part of wider battle to politicise diversity, says Conrad Brunstrom

Post-Brexit university funding issues are about more than the big pots of research cash, writes Gurpreet Jagpal

Former deputy steps up to lead as Brexit and funding challenges loom

Prevent monitoring and defeat of legal challenge shows that anti-extremism policy is not limiting academic freedom, says Hifsa Harron-Iqbal

Country’s universities and colleges have educated 58 heads of state and government

Academics just keep on finding new ways of exploring the phenomenon of the US president

Without more research funding, senior Indonesian academics are unlikely to be able to meet new government-imposed publication standards, says Martin Surya Mulyadi

Before pouring more public or private money into universities, politicians must ensure that all students are properly prepared, says Warren Bebbington

Threat to sue universities with policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants ‘deeply disturbing’

Academics who have become deputies for Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche! hope to tackle country’s problems with scientific method

Watchdog says data ‘does not bear the weight that is put on it in public debate’

Investigative journalist Emilia Sercan defied threats to uncover high-level ring of fraudulent PhDs

There are several stumbling blocks on the way to negotiating access to European research funding, writes Holly Else

Sir Mark Walport acknowledges ‘challenge’ of UK’s departure from European Union as sector anxiety grows

Bundling of subjects under pilot for future phase of teaching excellence framework may ignore diversity and complexity of many disciplines, says engineering body