UK gains in popularity
The total number of students enrolled in UK universities from countries outside of the UK increased by 6.1 per cent in the last academic year. The number of overseas students rose from 300,055 in...
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OST renamed in rejig
The Office of Science and Technology, which oversees the research councils, is set to become the Office of Science and Innovation on April 3 as part of a reorganisation of the Department of Trade and...
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Brain drain conference
Lecturers' union Natfhe and the Association of University Teachers are hosting a conference next week on the "Brain Drain in a Globalised World". It will investigate the impact of the loss of...
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£3.8m for professorship
The Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund is donating £3.8 million to endow in perpetuity a professorship in conservation biology at Cambridge University. The post, which is based at the university's...
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Palestine ties urged
Sir David Green, British Council director-general, this week appealed to academics involved in links with Palestinian universities to "work very hard" on collaborative projects despite the rioting...
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Ucas appoints director
Janet Graham has been appointed the first director of the Supporting Professionalism in Admissions programme at the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. The service will act as a central...
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'Threat' to research careers
Career opportunities for talented young academics are under threat as cash for research becomes concentrated in fewer university departments, Salford University's vice-chancellor Michael Harloe...
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Party thrown to beat rowdiness
St Patrick's Day, March 17, is a public holiday in Northern Ireland. But last year Gerry McCormac, pro vice-chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, was forced to abandon his plans for a relaxed...
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'Unnatural' swerve deceives eye
In 1997, psychologist Cathy Craig watched Brazilian footballer Roberto Carlos's strike against France, hailed as one of the greatest free-kicks of all time, writes Olga Wojtas. But her attention was...
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'When degrees are seen as a means to an end, anything justifies getting the mark'
It's a problem every student is familiar with: how to squeeze as much material as possible, from as many different sources as possible, into a 1,500-word essay. Phil Spooner, a second-year classics...
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Poll finds elite top cheats list
Students at the most academically selective universities are most likely to admit to cheating, a Times Higher poll on plagiarism has revealed. Opinionpanel Research asked 1,022 students from 119...
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Mellow melodies
Winchester Cathedral was the venue for the Church Colleges and Universities Choirs Festival, which was organised and hosted by Winchester University early this month. The festival brought together...
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Access drive has failed to bridge class divide
Universities were last week urged to strengthen efforts to attract more working-class students to degree courses as figures revealed that the participation of students from poor backgrounds had...
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Student cities skew the data
New universities in the same cities as elite Russell Group institutions have much lower intakes of students from working-class backgrounds than other former polytechnics, it has been revealed, writes...
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£7.5m to spur alumni giving
The Government this week announced £7.5 million in grants over three years to English academic institutions to help kickstart their fundraising activities. Universities will have to match funding of...