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3 janvier 2016

Early career researchers: the difficulty of saying ‘no’ as a newbie

By Richard Budd. Juggling multiple departmental roles on top of teaching and research can leave new lecturers feeling ‘punch-drunk’, explains new appointee Richard Budd. More...

3 janvier 2016

It’s time to ditch stale perceptions of university hierarchies

Catherine O’Connell responds to a recent study that identified four ‘tiers’ of universities in the UK. More...

3 janvier 2016

Emerging economies want world class universities too, and they’re doing all they can to get them

By Chris Parr. The BRICS and Emerging Economies rankings show the diversity of global HE, says Chris Parr. More...

3 janvier 2016

White, Western and male? Prepare to be told off for writing a poem

By  David Matthews. I had assumed stories about campus political correctness might be overblown. But the experience of my friend is an example of how deeply it permeates universities. More...

3 janvier 2016

BRICS Universities Summit: the case for (and against) ‘world-class’ institutions

By  David Matthews. Do emerging economies actually need “world-class” universities? This was the question asked at the opening ceremony of Times Higher Education’s BRICS and Emerging Economies Universities Summit in Delhi. More...

3 janvier 2016

World insight: South Africa’s student uprising

By Martin Hall. In South Africa, a schoolteacher earns too little to pay the fees for a son or daughter at a public university, but too much to qualify for a government-provided loan. More...

3 janvier 2016

Internationalisation is not a one-way street

By Vincenzo Raimo. With all the talk of internationalisation in higher education, even an industrial strategy for the internationalisation of education just a couple of years ago, it seems odd that things global barely get a mention in the Green Paper, Fulfilling our potential: teaching excellence, social mobility and student choice, except, of course, where it sees our universities as part of the UK’s export industry. More...

3 janvier 2016

Keeping the doors open to international students

By Rajika Bhandari. Last week, the Institute of International Education (IIE) released new Open Doors data showing that the number of international students coming to the US had jumped by 10 per cent to total almost 1 million students from more than 200 countries. As Times Higher Education reported, the largest cohort came from China, with 304,040 students at US universities and colleges, and the number of students from India rose by 29.4 per cent to 132,888. Fourth in the list was Saudi Arabia, with 53,919 students studying in the US. More...

3 janvier 2016

The postdoc’s dilemma: when to give up on romance and file for divorce?

By Sibylle Anderl. For most young researchers, academic research is the love of their life. But how much can and should be sacrificed for this love?, asks Sibylle Anderl. More...

3 janvier 2016

The global desire for UK science know-how

By Mark Samuels. According to Ricardo Hausmann, professor of the practice of economic development at the Harvard Kennedy School, “Prosperous societies are those that have the knowledge to make a larger variety of more complex products.” But how does this apply to the UK when its manufacturing and agriculture industries struggle to compete with cheaper imports from developing countries? How will the UK compete with the meteoric rise of the BRIC nations and, indeed, other developed countries. More...

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