The week in higher education 鈥撀9 July 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
In his first major policy speech as universities and science minister, Jo Johnson spoke about the importance of graduate employability. The idea that you could use this as an聽indicator of the...
Thank you for the article on the 鈥渒ey issues that local union branches are dealing with鈥 (鈥淏ackstage hands鈥, Features, 25 June). It is important that the hard, mostly voluntary, work that University...
One of the distinguishing features of UK higher education is the way that devolution has allowed England to diverge from the norm as a聽result of the business model of higher education increasingly...
To help to inform discussions at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, Mark Freeman and Ben Groom surveyed 200 international experts and 鈥渁sked them how much...
I note an unfortunate confusion between government measures to ban those who may allegedly 鈥渞adicalise鈥 students on university campuses 鈥 which, it is claimed, means encouraging them to support a...
I would like to commend Times Higher Education for the attention paid to shoes in recent issues, with articles that brilliantly discuss footwear and its history in relation to聽power and femininity (鈥...
PA Consulting Group must have been delighted at having its recent report described without comment or alternative views (鈥淰-cs wanting to lead from the front are frustrated by a lack of followers鈥,...

But chancellor鈥檚 move to change student loan repayment rules presents risks

The life of an early career researcher is a challenging one, finds Catherine Fletcher, as she heads to city number six

Chancellor George Osborne also announces scrapping of student maintenance grants and plans to make graduates pay more for loans through repayment threshold freeze

You might not think it, but students in the 14th and 15th century could teach today鈥檚 cohort a thing or two about tearing up the town, writes Matthew Reisz

Author Jeanette Winterson among 96 signatories of letter to board of governors