By Richard Jones. The UK is in the midst of an unprecedented peacetime slowdown in productivity growth. Labour productivity – the economic output per hour worked – has, for many decades, grown steadily at 2.3 per cent a year. More...

By Matthew Feldman. ESCP Europe, the world’s oldest business school, is located on the iconic Avenue République, within a mile of most of the locations that terrorists plunged into horror and tragedy last week. That night, cafés, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall were all full of young people, gathering, as usual, to put the world to rights and enjoy life and music. More...

By Frank Bournois. ESCP Europe, the world’s oldest business school, is located on the iconic Avenue République, within a mile of most of the locations that terrorists plunged into horror and tragedy last week. That night, cafés, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall were all full of young people, gathering, as usual, to put the world to rights and enjoy life and music. More...

By Chris Parr. The Times Higher Education BRICS and Emerging Economies Summit took place at O. P. Jindal Global University in Delhi on 2-4 December 2015. You can explore tweets from and in reaction to the event below. More...

By David Matthews. Unexpected creation of a ‘Global Challenges Research Fund’ means that if they want more money, academics may have to contribute to international development. More...

By John Morgan. The government’s higher education Green Paper is all in favour of providing more consumer-style information about universities and their courses to students. More...

By Matthew Reisz. Five years ago, I wrote an article arguing that the idea of a “war” between science and religion is not a very helpful one, given that “all-out wars between neighbours tend to be pretty unpleasant, and the reality is that atheistic scientists have to share space in universities with scientifically literate religious believers and religiously committed scientists”. More...

By Jack Grove. Does a single university campus always deliver the best student experience?
That question has become a contentious one at London Metropolitan University, whose plans to close its sites in Aldgate and Moorgate and move all teaching to its main base in Holloway from 2017 have attracted fierce opposition. More...

By Fiona Crozier. The chancellor’s axe didn’t fall as heavily on the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) as had been feared. Nevertheless, it’s clearer than ever today that UK growth will rely on significant increases in productivity. Our capacity to export higher education will be a key part of this. In his very first speech as minister for universities and science, Jo Johnson committed publicly to increasing education exports from £18 billion in 2012 to £30 billion by 2020. More...