Campus Talks is a fortnightly podcast from Times Higher Education. We talk to academics and administrators at universities around the world to share advice, insights and solutions addressing the big questions facing higher education today. Gather academic career advice and tips to improve your teaching, research practices, writing and public engagement work, alongside discussions on the most pressing issues in global HE.
Episodes
Thursday Mar 17, 2016
Thursday Mar 17, 2016
The results of this year’s Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey, the merits of the University of California system, and the latest on UK quality assurance are all discussed in this week’s issue review.
Chris Havergal is joined by features editor Paul Jump, deputy news editor John Morgan, and reporter Jack Grove.
Thursday Mar 10, 2016
Thursday Mar 10, 2016
The knock-on effects to students following the loss of maintenance grants, a survey of European universities' strengths and weaknesses, and hiring academics X Factor-style are all discussed in this week's issue review.
David Matthews is joined by reporters Ellie Bothwell and Jack Grove.
Thursday Mar 03, 2016
Thursday Mar 03, 2016
Which world universities garner the most amount of private-sector research funding, are universities outreach efforts delivering, and a round-up of this week's books section are all discussed in our latest issue review.
John Elmes is joined by reporters Ellie Bothwell and Chris Havergal, and books editor Karen Shook.
Thursday Feb 25, 2016
Thursday Feb 25, 2016
The "golden goodbyes" of outgoing vice-chancellors, how an academic set up a school to educate Syrian refugees, and a round-up of our features section are all discussed in this week's issue review.
John Elmes is joinedby features editor Paul Jump and reporters Ellie Bothwell and Chris Havergal.
Thursday Feb 18, 2016
Thursday Feb 18, 2016
This week we discuss how pension changes could leave academics £1,000 a year worse off, an academic’s journey from the University of Bradford to leading a university in Oman, and our latest book reviews
David Matthews is joined by books editor Karen Shook and reporters Jack Grove and Chris Havergal
Thursday Feb 11, 2016
Thursday Feb 11, 2016
Jeremy Corbyn, public and private contributions to higher education, Chinese students’ critical thinking, and Times Higher Education's MENA Universities Summit are all discussed in our latest issue review.
John Elmes is joined by deputy news editor John Morgan and reporters David Matthews and Chris Havergal
Thursday Feb 04, 2016
Thursday Feb 04, 2016
Increased numbers of EU students at English universities, greater exposure of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, and the findings of Times Higher Education's 2016 University Workplace Survey are all discussed in our latest issue
review.
John Elmes is joined by deputy news editor John Morgan and reporters Matthew Reisz and Jack Grove.
Thursday Jan 28, 2016
Thursday Jan 28, 2016
The lifting of student number controls, our university ranking of the Arab world, and living costs in the world's top university cities are all discussed in this week's podcast.
Friday Jan 22, 2016
Friday Jan 22, 2016
Concerns about the teaching excellence framework, a researcher working in a cloud forest and this week's Books section are all discussed in this week's THE issue review podcast.
Friday Jan 15, 2016
Friday Jan 15, 2016
Our books editor, Karen Shook, speaks to Svetlana Stephenson, a London Metropolitan University sociologist and author of Gangs of Russia: From the Streets to the Corridors of Power, about her life as a university student in the USSR, her summer as a visiting fellow in the 'paradise' of the University of Kent, the undreamed-for changes in society and the academy ushered in by Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, and interviewing 'the lads' of Kazan gangs about criminality, masculinity, social mobility and the code of the street.