Politics

Teacher training reform offers big opportunities for Wales, says Claire Taylor

The new CEO of UKRI, Sir Mark Walport, says a shake-up of UK research funding is needed if the country is to remain internationally competitive

US president attacks institution on Twitter after Milo Yiannopoulos event sparks violence

Pericles Lewis, founding president of Yale-NUS college, on a turbulent time for the liberal arts

Dramatic student number shifts revealed by Ucas figures come as uncertainty looms on multiple fronts

Has scholarly pessimism helped fuel anti-expert rhetoric? Panglossian we are not, but when hope fails, there’s humour, says Shahidha Bari

Oxford’s appointment of head of Brexit strategy offers sector food for thought

Institutions displaced by war in the country’s east have relocated campuses and adopted distance learning techniques to continue teaching. Hilary Lamb reports

Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton on why he signed an anti-Trump petition, and why universities are partly to blame for Trump’s rise

Leading universities from the around the world are hitting out at the US president, writes Chris Parr

Warwick vice-chancellor Stuart Croft on why his university reluctantly joined the ‘flawed’ teaching excellence framework

Immigration restrictions jeopardise traditions that made US universities great, writes John Morgan

Paul Fain on the university leaders and senior HE figures responding to Trump's executive order

US academia responds in shock to US president's executive order

New approach calls research crucial to raising productivity, but there is a shift in focus to industrial challenges

The UK must raise the issue of Turkey's appalling treatment of academia, says Mehmet Ugur

FT commentator gives damning verdict on what he describes as ‘government takeover of university sector’

Open University vice-chancellor Peter Horrocks on why his institution will not be in the teaching excellence framework this year

Research projects have spurred governments to pass vital humanitarian legislation

Decision to keep visa refusal data secret seen as part of effort to reduce overseas student numbers

Nadya Ali outlines the problems that impose three demands on the sector

A scholar of the past returns to a Britain he thought he knew – and finds himself averting his gaze in despair. Felipe Fernández-Armesto mourns

UUK accused of failing to emulate sectors ‘from farming to finance’ in seeking special deal

Chair voices concerns over student satisfaction data as Cambridge’s students’ union joins NSS boycott

Academics are alarmed at reports that first Trump budget will try to end funds 

President of ETH Zurich talks to Times Higher Education rankings editor Phil Baty

Duncan Wu reports from Washington as he attends the inauguration of Donald Trump

Theresa May's industrial strategy must address the gap between education and skills, writes Andy Westwood

Higher education minister says ‘almost all’ English institutions will take part 

Subra Suresh, president of Carnegie Mellon University, speaks to THE at the World Economic Forum in Davos

Phil Baty reports from the World Economic Forum in Davos

Abraham Lincoln, a history of the Roman Empire and an EU flag feature in scholars’ Trump Day plans  

Leading Democrat puts education secretary nominee under pressure on loans and ‘non-existent’ higher education record

John Morgan considers the impact on students and US scholars, and the political earthquake’s potential positives

Scholars ponder the ethical dilemmas of assessing the new president from afar 

Universities teach attention to evidence and fact-based reasoning, which 1930s Germany, 1990s Rwanda and now today’s US show us are vital, argues Donald E. Hall

Existentialism may now seem more relevant to philosophy undergraduates, but a woeful John Kaag shares their mood of blank despair 

Fellow political scientists pay tribute to the scholarly achievements of a man best-known as a television pundit during British elections

Theresa May speech also signals that future EU student recruitment will be ‘managed properly’

Contributors hope resource will encourage students to avoid ‘assimilationist’ mindset

A letter from David Sanders, Regius professor at the University of Essex, to Anthony King, professor of government and a leading authority on British politics who died earlier this week

Nick Hillman on the possible implications of the government’s defeat in the Lords

University of Bath’s Glynis Breakwell and other vice-chancellors are facing criticism from staff and students over pay increases

But potential recruitment positives are reliant on Home Office policy, cautions major Hepi analysis

Donald Trump’s election could prompt shifts in the world’s international student flows, some believe

China’s pressure on its academics to toe an ideological line will increase if Trump focuses only on business, says Tao Zhang

In an era of post-truth politics, academics and their research still have a vital role to play in influencing policy, says Graeme Reid

Jim Knight on the early committee stages of the HE and Research Bill in the Lords

Lord Stevenson on the problems facing the Higher Education and Research Bill, which was amended on its first day in committee in the Lords

Education committee hears University of Oxford’s head of Brexit strategy call for ‘openness’

Lords pass opposition amendment to HE Bill in committee stage

Kirsty Williams and Julie James implore ministers to look beyond the Golden Triangle

UCU uses survey to urge ministers to shelve ‘divisive’ HE bill and focus on Brexit impact

The impact of the bill on Royal Charters is not the main concern, says Smita Jamdar

New partnerships could help UK universities retain research links and EU funding, says Rik Torfs

Fixing problems in the academic job market by reducing the number of PhDs would homogenise the sector, argues Tom Cutterham

The Higher Education and Research Bill is a chance for institutions to show they do more than research and teaching, says Graham Virgo

There really is no need for the Higher Education and Research Bill, says Anne Sheppard

Drexel tones down criticism of professor over tweet attacked by right-wing media