Funding fallout
Universities' share of public spending has been in relative decline compared with that of schools and early years education, according to MPs. The Education and Skills Select Committee reported last...
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Dropouts soared as UNL widened access
High numbers of students dropped out of degree courses at the former University of North London because of its policy to admit students without formal qualifications who would not be accepted by...
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Brunel takes first steps towards teenage campus
Teenagers could finish their schooling alongside undergraduates under proposals to build Britain's first campus-based academy for 16 to 19-year-olds at Brunel University. The Government has agreed to...
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Fees to boost coffers by £21m
Cambridge University stands to generate an extra £21 million a year from tuition fees from 2006 - but roughly half will be spent on bursaries and financial aid, writes Paul Hill. The university hopes...
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Quality head in line of fire
Middlesex University has suspended the quality assurance chief at its School of Computing Science amid staff unrest over a "dumbing down" of standards revealed in The Times Higher . The university...
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Stag party
(Photograph) - What's the best way to sell Scotland? Bagpipes and men in kilts? Whisky and deep-fried Mars bars? Scottish institutions can apply to a Challenge Fund for resources to give overseas...
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Swansea sues 'rattled' AUT
Swansea University is to become the first university to take legal action against the Association of University Teachers. It has instructed solicitors and counsel to carry forward a threat to sue the...
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English student contests Scotland's ruling on fees
Scottish legal academics have welcomed the prospect of a court ruling on whether it is discriminatory for English, Welsh and Northern Irish students to pay fees in Scottish institutions, while...
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Fender takes rap for UKeU
A former funding chief this week accepted blame for the failure of the Government's flagship UK e-University project but added that the venture should have been given more time to succeed. Sir Brian...
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They're recruiting again in paradise
Briton heads influx into the University of the West Indies, reports John Kirkaldy The University of the West Indies has just taken on the first British academic at its English languages department in...
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Pasteur head may lose job
The head of France's prestigious Institut Pasteur has put his job on the line amid growing protests from scientists employed at the medical research centre. A vote of confidence in Philippe Kourilsky...
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Chinese flock to join civil service
In the days of China's imperial bureaucracies, there were always more qualified officials than there were positions available - a deliberate policy intended to keep officials in line. Now those days...
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No taste for bella Italia
Italian politicians are concerned that the country's universities have missed out on the Chinese international student market. During a state visit to China, President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi called for...
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Business school sued over 'masters'
Stockholm University School of Business is being sued by an international student who claims he was misled over the status of a business studies course. Tom Smith, a former Washington lobbyist,...
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Holocaust on syllabus at German college
The atrocities of the Holocaust will be taught for the first time in Germany as a compulsory part of the undergraduate syllabus at a private university in Berlin. The Jewish-American Touro College...