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17 October

New v-c seeks to turn around Goldsmiths as record strike drags on

16 October

Scholars launch their own review into Jason Arday appointment

16 October

Universities built the Catapults. Now they should release them

With the network’s funding up for renewal, the centres would better serve industry and their hosts as independent partners, says Keith Ridgway

By Keith Ridgway

16 October

Prevent referral for student’s X post sparks free speech row

16 October

Director of Sciences Po Paris Luis Vassy gestures as he delivers a press conference to mark the start of the academic year at the Sciences Po campus in Paris on 2 September 2026.

Sciences Po president: ‘I don’t like the word “elite”’

15 October

Bologna rector: ‘No tension between tradition and innovation’

The success of the West’s oldest university is down to its ability to adapt to the challenges of each era and a strong relationship with its city, Giovanni Molari tells Seher Asaf

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17 November - 19 November 2026

Seoul, South Korea

From silence to engagement in Sino-foreign education

By Zhou Ge and Irina Shcheglova

North America

By Emma Whitford

15 October

By Ryan Quinn

14 October

By Susan H. Greenberg

13 October

UK misses out on 2026 Nobels as US professors win economics prize

By Jack Grove

12 October

UCU members push to reignite education secretary dispute

17 October

Danish deans back screening students from ‘high-risk’ countries

16 October

Scholars launch their own review into Jason Arday appointment

16 October

Prevent referral for student’s X post sparks free speech row

By Jack Grove

16 October

Japan’s women-only universities go co-ed in battle for survival

By Rosalind Skillen

15 October

Chinese graduate students ‘entangled’ in Japan’s security agenda

By Rosalind Skillen

13 October

Bangladesh’s quality regime is crushing its higher education

By Nahid Neazy

13 October

China ‘more tolerant of failure’ with new 15-year research grants

By Rosalind Skillen

9 October

Merger cost-benefit analysis slated as ‘nonsense’

16 October

Victoria vows to double elected membership of university councils

16 October

Regional university mulls cuts as foreign losses bite

15 October

Australian funding overhaul clears parliament

13 October

News

Sign attached to a tree near an official picket line of the University and College Union

UCU members push to reignite education secretary dispute

Some in union adamant that move is only way of fighting university cuts despite legal advice warning of risks of potential action

17 October

Montage of Joanna Newman, vice-chancellor at Goldsmiths, University of London, with banners from the ongoing strike at Goldsmiths.

New v-c seeks to turn around Goldsmiths as record strike drags on

Exams going unmarked and temporary lecturers causing friction 130 days into industrial action but Joanna Newman believes she can end crisis loop at famed arts institution

16 October

Scholars launch their own review into Jason Arday appointment

Committee for Academic Freedom says its inquiry will not be ‘prejudged’ as it criticises ‘material change in emphasis’ in Cambridge’s own probe

16 October

Merger cost-benefit analysis slated as ‘nonsense’

16 October

Prevent referral for student’s X post sparks free speech row

By Jack Grove

16 October

Victoria vows to double elected membership of university councils

16 October

Danish deans back screening students from ‘high-risk’ countries

16 October

College of Europe campus set on fire in Albania protests

15 October

Dutch minister criticises ‘fraud’ as ‘fifth of theses AI-written’

15 October

Sunderland staff declare dispute over £40 million savings plan

15 October

Argentinian academics stage mass strike over pay demands

15 October

Students report little AI teaching on Russell Group courses

15 October

Sciences Po president: ‘I don’t like the word “elite”’

Luis Vassy’s first two years running the renowned but scandal-plagued Paris institution have been marked in the popular imagination by calling the police on protesters occupying a lecture hall. But his moves to make admission fairer and build a Brussels campus could define his legacy, writes Seher Asaf

15 October

Montage of Brian MacArthur, The Times Newspaper building on Gray’s Inn Road and the first edition of The Times Higher Education Supplement.

Times Higher Education at 55: how title helped forge a sector

The founding of The Times Higher Education Supplement in 1971 ushered in a sense of a coherent higher education community and launched the careers of many celebrated journalists. To mark what is now ɫ��ֱ��’s 55th anniversary, Matthew Reisz speaks to many of them – and hears about backstreet boozers, Hawaiian blizzards and living in ‘a constant ambience of fart’

Community college advertising enrolment to prepare for good-paying jobs when finished, Lansing, Kansas, US. To illustrate a focus on the individual benefits of higher education, which doesn’t play well with those who do not go.

If HE is worth the price, why don’t more Americans believe it?

The focus on the individual benefits of university is, unsurprisingly, not playing well with those who do not go. Sector advocates need to work harder, in an ideologically hostile climate, to illustrate the benefits skilled workers confer on the whole of society, say Stephen Handel and Eileen Strempel

Opinion

By Keith Ridgway

Universities built the Catapults. Now they should release them

With the network’s funding up for renewal, the centres would better serve industry and their hosts as independent partners, says Keith Ridgway

16 October

Illustration of harassment and bullying coming from a computer screen. To illustrate the anti-woke campaigners’ attack playbook.

Beware of anti-woke campaigners’ attack playbook

Typical moves include cherry-picking evidence, selectively targeting minorities and coordinating harassment, say Sander van der Linden and Alan Jagolinzer

Montage of medical students, with a syringe being stuck in to a map of the UK. To illustrate that regional universities are vital to solving the NHS staffing crisis.

Regional universities are vital to solving the NHS staffing crisis

Hospitals have a shortage of specialist training places, but we need new medical schools in regions with the fewest doctors, says Irene Ctori

Bangladesh’s quality regime is crushing its higher education

By Nahid Neazy

13 October

The Ukrainian centres of excellence project is a non-starter

By Ararat Osipian

12 October

Journals should cap each author’s submissions – but with a twist

By Dirk Lindebaum

9 October

Australian universities’ problem is legitimacy, not governance

By Jesse Gardner-Russell

8 October

World policy

New campuses are not the answer to Indonesia’s quality problem

Empowering existing centres of academic excellence is the best way to make the country’s higher education world class, says Theddeus O.H. Prasetyono

Editor’s pick

Two swimmers sitting on a diving board above a swimming pool. To illustrate that intervening to to help students avoid struggle can deny them the opportunity to advocate for themselves.

Academics must stop trying to save struggling freshers

Well-meaning interventions to help students avoid struggle, emotional pain or failure have gone too far, says Jennifer DeBurro

Academics must resist LinkedIn’s enshittification

The platform that once promised meaningful professional exchange has become performance theatre. We must do better, says Sorin Krammer

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New v-c seeks to turn around Goldsmiths as record strike drags on

Exams going unmarked and temporary lecturers causing friction 130 days into industrial action but Joanna Newman believes she can end crisis loop at famed arts institution

16 October

Sciences Po president: ‘I don’t like the word “elite”’

15 October

Mergers ‘not for the faint-hearted’, says Greenwich v-c

Jane Harrington describes her institution’s merger with Kent as ‘incredibly hard work’ and warns struggling institutions would need support to do the same