French higher education ‘isn’t where it should be’, says business school dean
Associate dean at HEC Paris says French institutions must look to international peers if they want to compete globally

Associate dean at HEC Paris says French institutions must look to international peers if they want to compete globally

Claims that magic shows are just trivial trickery understate their true significance, says scholar

Headlines from the latest Times Higher Education discussed by the editorial team

Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission says targets set to be missed on access so more action needed

The US sociologist has informed staff that he will not seek a second term as head of the London School of Economics

But the fate of Rhodes statue remains uncertain as anti-racism campaigners call for it be taken down

Sheffield Hallam University deputy vice-chancellor Liz Barnes will take over at Staffordshire early next year

From writing papers to urinating on other people’s work, cats have a rich history of scholarly work, finds Glen Wright

Rather than scrapping fees, universities in the country should invest the money in developing their research, says Cristián Larroulet

President of Limerick Institute of Technology to join North Wales university in April

Successful reform of higher education to reward good teaching 'may be an impossibility', says Paul Blackmore

Meanwhile, education committee calls for 'further detail' from ministers on controversial governance measures

‘Minimum expectations’ for research income will be used as part of staff performance review

New research initiative is thought to be the first of its kind in the UK, if not the world

Sutton Trust urges higher education institutions to devote 10 per cent of outreach budgets to evaluating effectiveness