Referees deliver online scolding
The Government's student website is beset by problems in its three key areas The external examiner for Liverpool John Moores University clearly had something he wanted to get off his chest. "There...
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Undergraduate survey riles unions
The country's first national survey of students' views on the quality of their courses is in danger of flopping as several student unions urge members to boycott it. Prompted by the Government's...
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Later for data
The Government's flagship Teaching Quality Information website, designed to help prospective students and their parents pick their way through the bewildering array of glossy prospectuses, continues...
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Cabbie hails student loan victory
A graduate cabbie has been awarded £2,000 compensation after the Student Loans Company misdirected him on how low he had to keep his earnings to avoid repaying his loan. For several years, self-...
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Learning sidelined in ballot box war
Ask veteran political strategists for their thoughts on the coming general election and the message is clear: don't expect Labour or the Tories to say much about higher education between now and...
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Lib Dems top on campus
The Liberal Democrats have strengthened their grip on the campus vote, according to a new poll for The Times Higher , writes Paul Hill. The poll of 1,031 students at 103 universities and colleges -...
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Confusion reigns for Welsh voters
Devolution in Wales has muddied the political waters and may affect the way academics, students and the general population vote in the forthcoming election. Academics and student leaders agree that...
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Labour losses may see fees scrapped
Top-up fees in England may be axed if Labour's majority is slashed in the forthcoming general election, according to the Universities Scotland organisation. The umbrella body for Scottish principals...
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Matthew, Mark, Luke Skywalker and, er, John
It is not every day that one meets a theologian who is also a theoretical astrophysicist and an expert in the spirituality of Star Wars films to boot, but then David Wilkinson is no ordinary academic...
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Japan gives official seal of approval to offshore US campus
Japan has recognised its first full offshore campus of a foreign university amid sustained pressure from the US for liberalised trade and investment in the Japanese education and health sectors. Last...
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Funding threat to sports prowess
Australia's sporting greats have joined vice-chancellors and student groups in attacking the Federal Government's plans to ban compulsory membership of student unions. Under so-called voluntary...
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Scandal 'will not be last'
The secretary-general of Thailand's Education Council has been cleared of leaking university exam papers but found guilty of breaching procedures by opening sealed boxes before they were distributed...
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Summers digs in his heels as gender row spreads to Yale
Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard University, has vowed to stay on, backed by the university's trustees, in spite of a vote of no confidence by the professors who work for him. The furore...
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New management for troubled Paris institute
A new board of directors has been elected to run Paris's troubled Pasteur Institute after the previous board resigned en masse in January amid a management crisis. Four state-appointed members remain...
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It's Einstein a go-go for Disney toy range
Disney last week clinched a $2.7 million (£1.4 million) deal with the Hebrew University for the rights to use the image of Albert Einstein in its "Baby Einstein" range of toys. Einstein, who was a...