By Ellie Bothwell for Times Higher Education. Experts question government decision to continue reserving 90 percent of preuniversity program places for Malay majority.
Moves by the Malaysian government to continue with a controversial affirmative action policy for its preuniversity program have reignited a debate over the fairest ways of admitting students to higher education. More...

George Justice and Carolyn Dever offer practical information to faculty members considering joining the administration and others who just want a peek inside it. More...

Successful articles share certain elements, writes Laura Moss, an editor of a scholarly journal who's written hundreds of decision letters. More...

Victor Ray explains why such writing is important for political, personal and practical reasons. More...

Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar describes why, despite how drained she sometimes feels afterward, she actively encourages her students to meet with her. More...

Brian J. Rybarczyk outlines how useful they can be in classifying and communicating examples of career and professional development. More...

Meredith O’Brien describes her struggles with how to teach students to be savvy, fair-minded news consumers in the current environment. More...

A junior professor discusses how you can best use the gap between spring and fall semesters. More...

To recover the trust of students and their families, Michael S. Roth writes, we must overcome our cultivated insularity.
As the academic year concludes, I find myself looking forward to a break from the onslaught of bad news about higher education in general and the humanities in particular. Another liberal arts college is forced to close for financial reasons; another university humanities program is cut back; a superrich university floats the idea of reducing its support for book publication. More...