Advice, insights and solutions for the challenges facing higher education from academics, faculty and staff at institutions around the world. Hear teaching tips, writing pointers, discussions on the big issues, forecasts and first-hand experiences from university leaders.
Episodes
Thursday Apr 03, 2014
Thursday Apr 03, 2014
Vice-chancellors' pay, a plagiarism row that spans generations, and the usefulness of bombarding prospective students with data about universities are among the topics up for discussion in this week's issue review podcast.
Thursday Apr 03, 2014
Thursday Apr 03, 2014
Morton Schapiro, president of Northwestern University, and Robert McQuinn, vice-president for alumni relations and development at the same institution, discuss the US education system, university finance and education technology with Times Higher Education reporter Chris Parr.
Monday Mar 31, 2014
Monday Mar 31, 2014
University of Edinburgh principal Sir Tim O'Shea discusses why his institution is so keen to increase the number of massive open online courses that it offers.
Friday Mar 28, 2014
Friday Mar 28, 2014
In the latest Times Higher Education books podcast, Sir Richard Evans, regius professor of modern history and president of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, talks to THE books editor Karen Shook.
Thursday Mar 27, 2014
Thursday Mar 27, 2014
The 2014-15 recurrent grant allocations by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, academics recalling their PhD supervisors, and one scholar's escapades surfing in extreme environments are among the issues discussed in this week's issue review.
Thursday Mar 20, 2014
Thursday Mar 20, 2014
The cost of the higher education reforms, pre-degree pathway centres, the lack of black professors in UK universities and the idea of tying research council funding to diversity are all discussed in this week's issue review podcast.
Reporter Chris Parr is joined by deputy news editor John Morgan, and reporters Jack Grove, Holly Else and David Matthews.
Thursday Mar 20, 2014
Thursday Mar 20, 2014
John Last became the first vice-chancellor of Norwich University of the Arts when the institution gained university status in 2012. In this podcast, he discusses how the impact of this change, what it means for the university's future, and the impact of the removal of the student number cap on an institution that is frequently over-subscribed.
The interview, with Times Higher Education reporter Chris Parr, took place in January 2014.
Tuesday Mar 18, 2014
Tuesday Mar 18, 2014
David Swayne is chief information officer at London South Bank University. In this podcast he discusses his role and responsibilities, as well as the changing expectations of students regarding university technology provision.
Recorded on 17 March 2014
Thursday Mar 13, 2014
Thursday Mar 13, 2014
Fears that universities could lose their licences to recruit overseas students, the implications of zero-hours contracts for university employees, and the memoirs of John Carey are up for discussion in this week's issue review podcast.
Reporter Chris Parr is joined by deputy news editor John Morgan, writer Matthew Reisz and reporter Jack Grove.
Wednesday Mar 12, 2014
Wednesday Mar 12, 2014
How important is the visual presentation of data to getting research noticed by policy makers? At the Jisc Digital Festival 2014, reporter Chris Parr met with Jo Wood, professor of visual analytics at City University London, and Jackie Carter, chair of Mimas at the University of Manchester, to discuss the role of images in research.