Liberal Democrats leapt on last week's pre-budget announcement that students will be able to volunteer in return for a reduction in tuition fees as a "gimmick" for the few, writes Claire Sanders. "...
University College London has decided that all its undergraduates must have a foreign language GCSE. The decision, agreed by UCL's academic committee this week, will be introduced gradually, with the...
English universities are to have a new uniform framework governing the academic "credit" students earn towards their degrees, making it easier to transfer between courses, study part time and...
UUK tells Chancellor not to cut cash if he wants results, Claire Sanders reports. Vice-chancellors have warned Chancellor Gordon Brown not to rock the boat if he wants universities to keep on...
Chancellor Gordon Brown has dropped plans for a single unified fund for UK health research, as exclusively predicted by The Times Higher last month. In his Pre-Budget Speech last week, the Chancellor...
The world's fourth most widely spoken language is about to be overtaken. Nick Holdsworth reports Languages, institutions, students and academics face threats in Eastern Europe Viktor Sadovnichy,...
The dismissal of two ethnic-Hungarian lecturers from the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj (Romania) has prompted a high-level response from the Hungarian Government. They were dismissed for putting up...
British universities are failing to develop academic ties with the "exiled" European Humanities University in Lithuania after its effective expulsion from Belarus, according to its rector. Agents in...
France's teacher training institutes face a major overhaul as they prepare to integrate with universities and make their programmes longer, with a greater emphasis on practical elements. Gilles de...
For the first time an Italian university has decided which lecturers to sack based on student evaluation. After substantial cuts to funding in the 2007 budget, the engineering faculty of Bologna...
New owner of the US partner in global e-learning scheme may withdraw cash support, reports Geoff Maslen The future of an online university established by the Universitas 21 international consortium...
By switching to quantitative markers to assess research we risk missing out on key discoveries, argues Ole Petersen There is no substitute for expert judgment in assessing the research of a...
How illiterate are today's students? It is increasingly difficult to tell. Last month, I received an e-mail headed: "Proofreading your essays, reports, dissertations and other professional documents...
In the time it took one university to validate a foundation degree, 4 million people in India and China gained degrees of their own. The institution concerned no doubt had exceptional reasons for the...
Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell's enthusiasm for his brief has never been in doubt. However, the minister may have rather overegged the pudding when he described the introduction of the new 14...