US campuses growing more divided in lobbying strategies
As annual lobbying spending drops to $75 million, bigger campuses take more control
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The view from industry
Increased precision, good science and technical rigour are essential to risk-based decision-making. But by themselves they are not enough. People's values can dominate their feelings about a level of...
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Kent v-c to depart after restructure and deficit warning
Karen Cox to step down next month as university grapples with projected ?30?million deficit
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The industrial evolution
Can Darwinism be applied to technological innovation? John Ziman examines the analogy between biological and cultural evolution. Go to a technology museum, and look at the bicycles. Then go to a...
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Research intelligence: key strategies for supporting PhD students
Three professors shortlisted for Times Higher Education’s Research Supervisor of the Year award discuss their approach to mentoring
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UAE looks to increase demand for science among industry
Minister says a new strategy and government restructure will ensure a continuous push towards a ‘robust science and technology ecosystem’ in the Emirates
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Research intelligence - A shift from tactics to strategy
It’s time for physics to make a big bang, the woman from the ministry tells Elizabeth Gibney
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HE in Tasmania: devilishly difficult to get right
The?Universities Accord has underlined the importance of Australian universities that cater to non-traditional students. But getting that provision right is not easy when your every move has major...
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China prioritises research spending despite economic downturn
Central investment?might go some way to mitigate declining spending by local government and industry
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Will Jo Grady’s wafer-thin mandate weaken union bargaining hand?
Incumbent’s narrow margin of victory does little to assuage critics of her first five years in charge of union?
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Imperial to create cross-cutting ‘convergence science’ schools
President Hugh Brady says new structures will provide ‘sandbox’ for interdisciplinary thinking and ‘shop window’ for industry engagement
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Charity cases: Why UK universities are really going broke
The?redundancies and course closures proposed at many struggling UK universities follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities whose non-commercial...
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US mounts dramatic pivot to ‘place-based industrial policy’
Land of the free market outpaces UK’s muted ‘levelling up’ with?funding to leverage power of universities in struggling regions
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Universities’ gender pay gaps ‘double the tertiary average’
While new Australian data identify regional universities as the most inequitable payers, experts highlight the ‘different conditions and challenges’
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Policies and strategies not enough to tackle campus sexual harassment
Vice-chancellors must make a sustained commitment to cultural change to ensure that violence, harassment and hate crime on campus are things of the past, writes Janet Beer