Research assessment exercise funding should be replaced entirely by a system where project costs are paid in full by research councils and external funders, higher education and industry leaders have...
A college that withheld examiners' comments from a student during a dispute over his tuition has breached the terms of the Data Protection Act, the information commissioner has ruled. The Anglo-...
The Medical Research Council is trying to encourage research into brain disease by offering proof-of-concept grants worth a total of £4.8 million. Researchers gave the news a cautious welcome....
Scotland has set up a training system for student representatives to ensure that they can play a full part in its radical new quality assurance scheme that focuses on students' experience. Sparqs,...
Students are threatening to sue Leicester University for breach of contract after their mass communications department was restructured, writes Tony Tysome. About 30 second and third-year students...
Vice-chancellors across the Commonwealth have been urged to support proposals for the creation of a new baccalaureate that could act as a common entrance qualification for all of their institutions....
The London School of Economics is considering whether to waive higher tuition fees for deserving British students. Sir Howard Davies, who became director of the LSE last week, told The THES : "We do...
Proposals for a European Research Council won influential backing this week with a plea from 43 Nobel prizewinners. A group led by Erwin Neher, winner of the 1991 Nobel prize for medicine, appeared...
Strathclyde University law students have saved the day for a bride-to-be who was told her £400 deposit could not be refunded after her wedding dress was made to the wrong measurements. The students,...
Extra police have been drafted in at a Colombo University after a savage attack by students on its vice-chancellor, who has been at the forefront of efforts to control violence in universities. Sri...
Israel's seven research universities this year face a deficit of almost half a billion shekels (Pounds 66 million) because of the deteriorating security situation. Some 800 million shekels have been...
Some US universities are looking at providing a service under which students can download music from the internet for a fee in response to a music industry crackdown on illegal downloading of...
First-year law students at Prague's Charles University are having to study in double shifts because nearly 170 additional students who failed the entrance exam were admitted after errors in the...
An Australian study has found that students who work part time perform better in examinations than students without jobs. The findings counter growing concerns about the rising number of students...
The army has entered the escalating row between Turkey's government and university rectors over plans to reform higher education. Eight rectors have met the head of land forces, General Aytac Yalman...