Management and governance

National University of Singapore promotes provost Tan Eng Chye

Ellie Bothwell goes through the archives from 45 to five years ago and discovers some recurring themes

Scholar returning to homeland from US to lead university speaks of his concerns

Number of universities eligible to award federal financial aid down 5.6 per cent year-on-year

Scholar claims she was pressured to sign up to Higher Education Academy and did so without correct documents

Leader of Hong Kong Polytechnic University says institution ‘cannot think of itself as an isolated island’

Sector leader says the UK can offer insights into higher education’s role in regional growth strategies

Labour peer calls for funding council intervention on Glynis Breakwell’s salary

The former president of Carnegie Mellon University will lead the Singaporean institution from 2018

Round table discusses challenges of changing job market and political instability

Conditions that undermine the notion of scholarly vocation – relentless work, ubiquitous bureaucracy – can cause academics acute distress and spur them to quit, says Ruth Barcan

Expanding university enrolment across the world has resulted in universities ‘imitating each other’, says leading scholar

Futao Huang says that calls for Japan’s national universities to adopt more marketised leadership strategies have so far gone unheeded

Arizona State University’s Michael Crow was the highest-earning leader in 2015-16

Jo Johnson takes aim at Southampton’s leader in outspoken attack on ‘sharp increase’ in salaries

Several student accommodation blocks have been discovered with flammable cladding

The inventor of the concept of emotional intelligence explains how the idea can be built into the culture of universities

UK universities’ complacency in the good times has left them ill-equipped to respond to falling postgraduate master’s enrolment, says Michelle Morgan

The sweatshop conditions in which sessional academics work in Australia mirror the treatment of schoolteachers in Victorian times, say Hannah Forsyth and Jedidiah Evans 

President of proposed new engineering institution wants to use egalitarian management ethos of King Arthur ahead of its launch in 2020

University of West London wins top honour as Strathclyde and Gloucestershire take home two prizes each

Forty-one per cent of respondents to ACE survey describe political climate as ‘hostile’ to higher education

Hefce tells English universities that confidentiality agreements should be ‘the exception rather than the norm’

The wild variations in the proportions of top grades awarded by different departments and universities must be addressed, says Bernard Rivers

Su Guaning, president emeritus of Nanyang Technological University, says the best universities have a local rival

First female leader of the Ivy League institution has championed diversity during her tenure

Figures from latest Times Higher Education/Grant Thornton survey highlight ‘arbitrary nature’ of awards, says UCU

In our annual survey of vice-chancellors’ pay, which reveals double-digit hikes for some and more modest rises for others, Simon Baker examines how remuneration committees make their decisions amid calls for greater transparency over the ‘arbitrary’ nature of salary increases

Development of Kazakhstan’s university system assessed in new book

UK universities could curry much more political favour if they adopted a more constructive and pragmatic tone, says Sir David Bell

Ellie Bothwell talks with the KAUST president about effective leadership, securing funding and the importance of keeping the local public onside

Higher education could learn a lot from the arts sector about recruiting senior women. Part-time roles and job-shares could be game-changers, says Joanna Read

Unadvertised positions and favouritism 'commonplaces in Swedish academic hiring'

Unions call decision an ‘insult’ to staff in Zimbabwe’s higher education sector

Vice-chancellor believes international scholars can be tempted away from the golden triangle and to the North of England

Eliminating cheating services, even if it were possible, would do nothing to address students’ and universities’ lack of interest in learning, says Stuart Macdonald

Colleges must lead students in critical thinking ‘not protect them’, says one leader

Academic who has led Australia’s leading university since 2005 to return to research and teaching

Sheffield deputy vice-chancellor to succeed Sir David Greenaway

As higher education costs rise inexorably, students or governments will inevitably have to pay more, says Peter Coaldrake

UCU figures on job cut plans in 2017 reveal scholars’ vulnerability in wake of Brexit and TEF

Group of top Asian institutions aims to boost research collaboration and increase mobility

Seven academic leaders share their experiences at the departmental helm along with their tips on how to squeeze the best out of sceptical staff and meagre budgets – and still find time for research

Students are being hoodwinked into enrolling on ‘trendy’ new degree programmes that are, according to one concerned academic, little more than a marketing exercise

Being required to document interactions with troubled students in customer relations management systems is just a distraction from addressing their problems, says Susan D’Agostino

Plans for higher education reform rule out institution closures

Claire Taylor’s approach to change in her institution has been inspired by the French president’s rise to power

Academics pass resolution calling for shock acquisition to be rescinded

Bashir Makhoul tells of his inspiring journey from a tiny village in Palestine to university leadership

Round-the-clock online chats led to unprecedented levels of feedback, says institution's president

Agnes Bäker and Amanda Goodall have found that academics who are happiest at work have a head of department who is a distinguished researcher. How can such people be encouraged into management?

Universities must not be complacent about freedom of speech, and need to ensure students use it to drive change, says Bill Rammell 

As tactics to maximise rankings become common knowledge and fluctuation diminishes, universities will re-focus on a diversifying array of missions, says Merlin Crossley

The work of 500 scientists transformed the 20th century. Universities and funders must do more to make certain that the flow of groundbreaking discoveries continues, says Donald Braben 

With overcrowded lecture theatres the norm in undergraduate education today, online delivery has entirely replaced lectures and seminars in some institutions. So where to in the coming decade? Warren Bebbington outlines a survival strategy for the increasingly unaffordable traditional university

Government concessions needed ‘if it is not to lose its bill’, senior Labour peer warns

It's not just about papers. Running a university in Papua New Guinea has cast academic impact in a more exotic light for John Warren

From personalising tuition to performance management, the use of data is increasingly driving how institutions operate

US academics might find a warm word for the president if he forces universities to become financially disciplined and sustainable, say Jose Garcia, Don Barwick and Joseph Garcia