West Coast maths is no mystery
New book in the style of LA crime fiction offers maths lessons from a private eye
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Liberal arts in the UK: how are students finding the model?
With Regent’s University London the latest to offer the US-style of undergraduate education, Natasha Turner looks at how courses are being received elsewhere
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Interview with David Sobral
We talk human existence, Cristiano Ronaldo and the problems with Portugal’s higher education system with Lancaster’s new astrophysicist
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Bank looks to students for answers to technological challenges
Baroness Vadera explains how Santander hopes to encourage entrepreneurialism in graduates
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THE MENA Summit: Academic voice still ‘vital’ in era of centralised governance
Challenge of balancing need for quick decision-making with demand for collegiality debated
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Shakespeare exhibition reveals 'the man and his creative process'
King’s College London joins with National Archives to mark 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death
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World insight: The use of English in universities will not kill off Dutch
Martin Paul believes that the advantages of teaching some courses in English far outweigh the disadvantages for students in the Netherlands
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Poorer students ‘disadvantaged’ in postgraduate funding struggle
Kingston study finds that less affluent learners are more concerned about debt, and unlikely to be able to rely on their parents for support
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China 'offering global elite scholarships to boost soft power'
China, fostering links with future leaders through its universities, is now playing the same game as Western nations, researcher says
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Bring medical research back to the ‘bedside’, Oxford scientists urge
A focus on basic cell biology and statistical population health studies means that understanding how living systems operate has been neglected, they claim
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THE MENA Summit: For-profit university chains ‘best placed to meet global demand’
Lord Willetts tells event it is hard to see how governments can fund expansion on necessary scale
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Cambridge to bring in new entrance exams following demise of AS levels
Fears that the changes could favour applicants from wealthy backgrounds who can afford to be coached
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Free university tuition ‘could lead to poor subsidising the rich’
Disadvantaged are under-represented in degree study because they are ‘simply not smart enough’, says researcher
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Asian HE expansion 'producing more graduates than market needs'
Hong Kong scholar says students are embarking on postgraduate degrees to 'delay' unemploymentÂ