Times Higher Education (THE)

The Times Higher Education (THE), which used to be known as the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), is a London-based weekly magazine that focuses on topics and news surrounding higher education. It stands as the top publication in the United Kingdom dedicated to this area.

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Top Sydney universities one-third funded by Chinese students

1 day ago | timeshighereducation.com | John Ross

Chinese students provided Sydney’s biggest universities with almost one-third of their revenue last year, in a sign that the federal government’s international education crackdown has not eased the sector’s reliance on Australia’s combative near neighbour. A report from the New South Wales (NSW) auditor general says Chinese enrolments accounted for 78 per cent of international education revenue at the University of Sydney in 2024, and 77 per cent at UNSW Sydney.
Graduate employment gap at record level in under-fire statistics

2 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | Patrick Jack

The gap in the employment rate between graduates and those who did not attend university has never been greater, new figures suggest. However, the Department for Education (DfE) has announced the latest release of graduate labour market data will be the last amid ongoing questions over whether it accurately represents graduate outcomes. show that 87.6 per cent of 16-to 64-year-old graduates were employed in 2024, which was unchanged from the year before and slightly below the peak year of 2018.
Universities lucky to avoid UK graduate visa ‘red card’, says v-c

3 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | Patrick Jack

UK universities were lucky to only receive a “yellow card” in the government’s recent immigration White Paper and should be careful to avoid activities that may prompt further restrictions, a leading vice-chancellor has warned. The long-awaited policy document, published last month, proposed reducing the country’s vital post-study work visa from two years to 18 months, prompting fears of further damage to the sector’s finances.
Russian students ‘told not to consider UK’ amid ‘hostile climate’

3 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | Patrick Jack

The UK’s hostile atmosphere, visa refusal rates and unwavering support for Ukraine almost amounts to a de facto ban on Russian students, scholars have said, after numbers tumbled to record low levels. Recent Home Office figures show that just 1,275 Russian applicants were granted sponsored study-related visas in the year to March 2025 – 20 per cent less than the year before and the lowest number since comparable records began in 2010.
AI tool uses enrolment information to pinpoint student disengagement

3 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | John Ross

Academics are squandering the potential of artificial intelligence to help with learning analytics, according to the architect of a programme that can determine at-risk students from the information they provide when they enrol. A test of the AI model, developed at the Australian Catholic University (ACU), found it succeeded up to 17 times out of 20 in flagging international postgraduates at risk of disengaging from their studies.
Graduate divide among UK voters adds to Tory ‘extinction’ threat

4 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | Patrick Jack

The educational divide between graduate voters and the rest of the UK could “kill off” the Conservative Party in the coming years, according to a leading political scientist – but may also cause issues for Labour. Historically the party of the working-class, the Labour Party has increasingly become the home of those who attended university, especially since the country voted to leave the European Union in 2016.
Academic jobs on the line in Macquarie restructure

4 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | John Ross

Sydney’s Macquarie University plans to remove the equivalent of up to 60 full-time academic positions as part of a “workforce realignment” designed to match activities to “contemporary needs”. The academic union says the “brutal restructure” will “drastically cut options for students”, with humanities and social sciences offerings “sacrilegiously burned”.
Beware ‘rushed’ teaching changes amid financial crisis, staff say

4 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | Juliette Rowsell

Universities are attempting to attract more students and improve finances by initiating radical reforms to their teaching practices, but staff have warned that “rushed” changes will only store up wider problems. Coventry University has become the latest to announce it is rolling out the “block teaching” model across the whole of the institution, after first using it at its satellite campuses.
Every place with more than 80,000 people ‘needs a university’

4 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | Patrick Jack

Every town or city in the UK with a population of more than 80,000 people should have its own university to help spur growth and innovation, according to a new book that aims to provide the Labour government with a “road map” for addressing inequalities.
Durham University

5 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | Juliette Rowsell

Staff at Durham University have blamed the institution’s major restructuring programme for errors seen in student exams. Several assessments at the Russell Group institution have been disrupted this year due to administrative problems. In one instance students sitting an engineering paper did not receive a data table booklet, which was needed to answer half the questions in the exam, until halfway through.