Language blow for Middlesex
Inadequate English-language support at Middlesex University is damaging overseas students' ability to understand "theoretical and conceptual material" in class, quality chiefs have said. The Quality...
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Outgoing principal launches plan to unite Scottish physics
Sir Graeme Davies, principal of Glasgow University, has unveiled plans to link top-rated Scottish physics departments to promote collaborative research. Sir Graeme, who next month becomes president...
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Clear improvement?
Alison Goddard and Caroline Davis look at dual support reforms Government plans to make universities responsible for recovering the full economic costs of research have come under fire from many...
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Gap of millions needs to be plugged with a robust system
Dual support The dual-support system has been running in its current form for more than ten years. The original idea was that a research proposal was judged purely on scientific merit, away from the...
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Bristol shows off its hidden history
Bristol University is opening up its ivory towers to the public this autumn. A series of guided tours, led by experts in science, history, archaeology and architecture, will give people a chance to...
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University bid still on course
Peterborough still has hopes of establishing its own higher education institution despite Loughborough and Sheffield universities pulling out as partners. Don Lawson, principal of Peterborough...
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Plymouth pays £1m for quality
Academics renewed their attack on excessive external scrutiny this week as it emerged that Plymouth University claims to spend about £1.3 million a year on quality assurance. Sara Jennett, head of...
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Merit rises to spur on Dutch science
The Dutch government will reward successful scientific research with extra funding in an effort to raise quality by increasing competition among researchers and institutions. Minister of education...
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Consultation on French overhaul
France's university presidents want a public debate on the future of higher education while they await the first major shake-up of the system for nearly 20 years. Reforms introduced by education...
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Jocks raise their game in class
US universities have significantly improved the academic performance of their athletes after years of criticism that they were using student athletes merely to help them profit from intercollegiate...
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Albanian academy still lacks power of the purse
Albania is to begin the academic year with a new higher education act. But the legislation fails to give universities the right to manage their own money, seen by many academics as one of the major...
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V-c call heeded in reforms
The Australian government has tempered some of its more contentious higher education reforms with a promise of an additional A$1.5 billion (£618 million) for higher education over the next four years...
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Race card is withheld
A growing number of applicants to US universities are refusing to disclose their race, further complicating the debate over affirmative action. A report in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education...
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McGill accused of admissions impropriety
A Canadian university enrolled unqualified offspring of influential people and academically inferior varsity athletes, a former admissions director told a court during a hearing over her claim for...
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We must build up skills, not burn our bridges
Hefce's plans to cut engineering funding endanger the UK's economic wellbeing, argues Sa'ad Medhat. In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith characterised the British people as a nation of shopkeepers...