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Like Iain Stevenson ("Hang the expenses", Opinion, 13 December), I often have multiple reimbursement claims totalling more than four figures. These can be repayments for carrying out a range of...
Like Iain Stevenson ("Hang the expenses", Opinion, 13 December), I often have multiple reimbursement claims totalling more than four figures. These can be repayments for carrying out a range of...
I was interested to read about Astrid Wissenburg's move to The Open University ("Now she'll work by her own rules", Research, 29 November). However, I was intrigued by her description of the...

The 2013 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings will be released online on Monday 4 March, ahead of their official launch at the British Council’s Going Global conference in Dubai.

The once ‘unfilmable’ story of a boy and a tiger stranded together on a lifeboat contains flashes of 3D genius but ultimately proves too tame for Will Brooker

As UCL’s new provost is announced, Steven Schwartz considers the challenges facing the sector’s leaders over the next 12 months

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
"Nobody wants to come visit us any more." That's what I was told by a lecturer at the University of Athens a few weeks ago. I had deliberately made my way to Athens to see for myself the effects of...
Plymouth UniversityGlobal business linksBusiness and finance students will have the opportunity to take part in a cross-Atlantic exchange thanks to a new partnership. Officials from Plymouth...
Research malpractice'Inadequate role model'A prominent researcher who spends 20 per cent of her time at the University of Manchester has been reprimanded by the German Research Foundation (the DFG)...
United StatesBrainless brain treatmentA US university hospital has been criticised by federal regulators over severe deficiencies in the patient care offered to those undergoing experimental surgery...
• Theresa May's speech on immigration and the student visa system contained so much nuance and balance that some people might be confused about where she stands. So a É«ºÐÖ±²¥ Office press release...
Male-dominated headhunting firms paid to identify potential university leaders are hampering efforts to recruit more female vice-chancellors.
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

A very merry Yuletide to each and every one of you from myself and my personal assistant, Mrs Dilworth.This is that special time of year when we look back to the last special time of year and find...

The bells may be ringing out for Christmas Day, but for the sector they signal alarm after a year of unprecedented upheaval