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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 3d
The World University Rankings 2026 have just been published.

The performance of Asia’s top universities has stalled for the first time in 14 years, while the US continues to decline.

Analysis of the results: https://ow.ly/KeQm50X8BeE #THEUniRankings
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d
Fiction ‘brings lectures to life’ as academics face empty classes: University ‘whodunnit’ inspired by attempts to tackle poor attendance as scholars look for novel ways to engage mainstream audiences. Juliette Rowsell reports
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d
The higher education sector is failing autistic students. To turn things around, we all need to innovate, writes @corabeth.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/three... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #Autism #AcademicSky #EduSky
Three easy tweaks to make your teaching autism-friendly
Autistic students have the highest university dropout rate of any disability group. What can teaching staff do about it?
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d
Technicians often hold the key to solving many of the challenges they face and can bridge different staff groups, but their roles are too often siloed. These tips help build networks and improve communication: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/conne... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
Connecting and empowering technical staff: lessons for universities
Technicians themselves will have many of the answers to the challenges they face and can bridge staff groups, but their roles are often siloed or isolated. These suggestions build networks and communi...
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d
It doesn’t take grand gestures to boost student satisfaction in the library. Discover how small changes can make a big difference: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/three... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #EduSky @chiunipress.bsky.social
Three ways to hone your university library services for ultimate student satisfaction
Ditch the doughnuts and cut your cloth – find out the small changes that can have a big impact on student satisfaction in their university library
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d
Technical skills aren’t enough for today’s media students. They need agility to keep up with a fast-changing industry. Here’s how to prepare the next generation of storytellers: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/prepa... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #EduSky
Preparing media studies students for an unknown future
Today’s media studies students need more than technical skills – they need the agility to survive in a changing industry. Here’s how to teach film, TV and digital media to the next generation of story...
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d
India’s decision to open its doors to overseas universities will only be successful if fees are set at an affordable level and “structural challenges” can be avoided, according to experts

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Indian foreign campus push ‘needs supervision but not bureaucracy’
Regulators should consider insisting that branch campuses offer scholarships to avoid ‘two-tier’ system, say experts
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d
When done well, university placements bridge theory and practice, build vital professional skills and help reduce inequalities. Here’s how to get them right: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/make-... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
Make university placements work for students and employers
Well-structured university placements can bridge theory and practice, build professional skills and reduce inequalities. Discover how to get them right
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d
Saudi Arabia’s first arts university will help the country achieve ambitious plans for a thriving creative arts economy by 2030, Saudi culture minister told THE summit #highered #EduSky

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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 1d
Bit of a coup for Switzerland, and worrying signs for the US, as married Nobel prize-winning economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, currently full-time professors at MIT, join the University of Zurich www.timeshighereducation.com/news/married... via @patrickjack.bsky.social
Married Nobel prize-winning economists move from US to Europe
Other recent departures from Trump’s America include expert on antifascism who fled to Spain after receiving death threats
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 1d
More than 12K jobs going across UK universities so far this year, with more to come, says @ucu.org.uk www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq... via @helenpacker.bsky.social
Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU
Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 1d
Good despatch from @patrickjack.bsky.social from the Conservative conference exploring why the Tories have run out of ideas on higher education www.timeshighereducation.com/news/tories-...
Tories’ search for new ideas leads to same HE playbook
‘Debt trap’ has replaced ‘Mickey Mouse’ courses but Badenoch still kicking universities after being ‘boxed in’ by Labour’s apprenticeship embrace and Reform attacks on elitism
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d
Australian National University v-c Julie Bishop not for turning, amid denunciation of culture, oversight and spending at university
ANU chancellor’s expenses ‘a good return on investment’
Former politician not for turning, amid denunciation of culture, oversight and spending at national university
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d
Two Nobel-winning economists are moving to Europe from an elite US university, becoming the latest academics to leave the country during Donald Trump’s second term

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Married Nobel prize-winning economists move from US to Europe
Other recent departures from Trump’s America include expert on antifascism who fled to Spain after receiving death threats
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d
UK universities have announced cuts equivalent to more than 15,000 jobs over the past year as financial pressures mount, according to @ucu.org.uk

#AcademicSky #highered
Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU
Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d
Speaking on the final day of THE’s World Academic Summit, leaders of universities in Botswana, Wales, Canada and England urged institutions to balance local and global outlooks in an era of growing international competition

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Global universities can’t lose sight of local identity, say v-cs
Institutions must find new ways to respond to the agendas of the communities where they operate, leaders tell summit
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 2d
A “major shift” in policy is needed if Labour is to succeed in uniting England’s post-16 education and skills system and reaching its new target for participation, a report has argued
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/significant-policy-reform-needed-meet-labours-skills-agenda
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 2d
Even as the US shrinks and narrows clinical trials, the need for this research continues. Other countries, such as Australia, can and must step in, says Stephen Jane
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/australia-ready-take-us-defunded-clinical-trials
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 2d
Tories’ search for new ideas leads to same HE playbook: ‘Debt trap’ has replaced ‘Mickey Mouse’ courses but Badenoch still kicking universities after being ‘boxed in’ by Labour’s apprenticeship embrace and Reform attacks on elitism. Patrick Jack reports
https://ow.ly/yN0X50X9f2U
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 2d
Australian tertiary institutions will need regulatory approval to deliver their courses overseas, under new legislation introduced into parliament
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/canberra-require-regulatory-approval-offshore-delivery
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 2d
The number of student visa applications for UK courses over a 12-month period has risen for the first time in almost two years, official figures show. Patrick Jack reports #academicsky #edusky #visas https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-student-visa-applications-10-cent-last-year
UK student visa applications up 10 per cent on last year
UK bounces back in crucial month for enrolments, with policy uncertainty elsewhere helping fuel first rise in 12-month figures for nearly two years
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 2d
How a UK-Ukrainian university partnership overcame the challenges of war and cross-border collaboration to create a new legal dictionary and build strong, trusting academic relationships: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/build... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
Building legal resilience in Ukraine: lessons from a twinning partnership
Insights from a UK-Ukrainian university partnership that overcame the challenges presented by war and working across borders to produce a new legal dictionary and strong trusting academic relationship...
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 2d
Universities face growing financial pressures, but legacy giving remains largely untapped. Here’s how to get started: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/inves... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #EduSky
Investing in futures: maximising legacy gifts in higher education
Legacy giving provides a valuable and sustainable source of income for charities but it’s still relatively untapped in the higher education sector. With universities and students under increasing fina...
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 2d
Keir Starmer has praised UK universities for expanding into India as he used his first official visit to the country to announce several new higher education and research partnerships, reports Tash Mosheim #academicsky https://ow.ly/s31W50X93RL
Starmer backs UK university boom in India as more campuses launch
Lancaster and Surrey latest to gain approval to set up Indian bases, with prime minister lauding £50 million boost to economy
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 2d
The number of students taking UK courses abroad is set to reach 1 million within just three years and could surpass the figure for onshore international students in the UK next year, according to a new report #Intled
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 2d
UK offers reassuring familiarity for Charles Darwin’s TNE ‘push’ but vice-chancellor says its MBA courses will be unlike anything already available

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London move a ‘natural step’ for remote Australian university
UK offers reassuring familiarity for Charles Darwin’s TNE ‘push’ but vice-chancellor says its MBA courses will be unlike anything already available
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