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THE Podcast: the World Academic Summit preview

At the 2018 World Academic Summit in Singapore, higher education leaders from around the world will discuss how academic research can build nations and drive economies. We'll hear first-hand how research has impacted the summit's host institution the National University of Singapore and introduce some of the speakers and sessions on the programme. 

Sara Custer is joined by Tim Sowula head of content and engagement for THE summits and Andrew Wee vice-president for university and global relations at NUS.

The fifth World Academic Summit will take place 25-27 September at the National University of Singapore. Register to attend 

THE Podcast: Is Australia's international student boom about to go bust?

Australia has benefitted from record growth in international student enrolments in the past five years, but institutions are now confronted with a situation where they're overreliant on foreign student fees. 

 

Sara Custer is joined by Times Higher Education's Asia Pacific editor John Ross and the International Education Association of Australia's CEO Phil Honeywood. 

THE Podcast: tensions between faculty and their students

A recent article published by Times Higher Education sparked a backlash from audiences for its criticism of students and what the author calls "Millennial entitlement". Here we dissect the piece to better understand the root of the author's rancour: students with different academic needs, pressures to meet attainment metrics and fewer full-time faculty members with the agency to do anything about. 

Sara Custer is joined by THE features editor Paul Jump and Vasti Torres, a professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. 

THE Podcast: Teaching and learning and research, oh my!

At the 2018 Times Higher Education Teaching Excellence Summit, global experts on teaching and learning debated how universities should balance world class research with effective teaching as well as the best way to teach students – lectures or active learning? 

Sara Custer speaks with two presenters from the summit, Suzi Derbyshire deputy vice-chancellor of Learning and Teaching at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia and Bob Duke the director of the Center for Music Learning at the University of Texas at Austin. 

THE Podcast: Teaching Excellence Summit interview with Richard Arum

In this bonus episode of the THE podcast, Sara Custer speaks with Richard Arum dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Education and author of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses after his plenary speech at the 2018 Times Higher Education Teaching Excellence Summit at the University of Glasgow. 

Arum discusses the need for more research into improving higher education learning, how technology is changing both teaching and research and how universities have a responsibilty, now more than ever, to ensure students are civically engaged. 

THE Podcast: Debt and the academy

A bonds arms race is heating up in higher education but what could taking on more creditors mean for the mission of an institution? Why do univerisites need to raise millions – sometimes billions – of dollars? And is everyone on a level playing field whent it comes to attracting investors? 

 

Sara Custer speaks with Times Higher Education reporter David Matthews and senior vice president for Finance at the University of Minnesota, Brian Burnett. 

THE Podcast: Times Higher Education Europe Teaching Rankings explained

Ahead of our inagural Europe Teaching Rankings, we discuss what metrics the Times Higher Education data team have used to compare like for like in teaching excellence across European countries and how universities and governments can get involved in making the data set even richer. The full results of this pioneering research will be announced at the Times Higher Education Teaching Excellence Summit at the University of Glasgow on 11 July. 

 

Sara Custer is joined by Phil Baty, editorial director for global rankings, and Duncan Ross director of data an analytics. 

THE Podcast: Data and how it's changing the way universities work

Data has become central to decision making in higher education. Information is available like never before that can help universities be more inclusive, improve graduate outcomes and develop future strategies. But not everyone in an instituion can be on board with this new way of working and the resource requirements to turn data into something meaningful are large. 

 

Sara Custer speaks with THE's director of data and analytics, Duncan Ross, as well as Martine Carter director of strategy and senior executive officer at the University of Surrey, Richard Salter directer of analytics at King's College London and Lucian Hudson director of communications at The Open University. 

THE Podcast: Does a university's location inspire innovation?

Coming to you from a log flume in Florida just after the THE Young Universities Summit, the team reflect on the event's conversations and questions. Many young instituions thrive on the oppoturnities in their home metropolises but is a booming urban environment critical to be an innovative university? And are higher education's foundational missions, like the serach for truth and public service, still core to newer universities? Buckle your safety belt and tune in. 

 

John Gill, editor of Times Higher Education, is joined by Phil Baty, editorial director of global rankings and Tim Sowula, head of content and engagement for the THE World Summit Series. 

THE Podcast: Analysis of the teaching excellence framework 2018 results

Times Higher Education journalists analyse the results of the second year of the UK's teaching excellence framework (TEF) looking at the classifications given to key instituions, changes in the methodology from last year and whether the exercise has become so complicated, students can't even understand what the gold, silver and bronze awards mean.

Chris Husbands, chair of TEF and vice-chancellor at Sheffield Hallam University, is also interviewed to give his thoughts on the the 2018 results and the future of the assessment. 

Sara Custer is joined by news editor Chris Havergal, data editor Simon Baker and reporter Anna McKie.