A review team has called for a new tier of senior managers at Goldsmiths College after complaints that the management style of warden Ben Pimlott is "autocratic". The team, set up last year following...
How do we get people interested in democracy again? That's the question exercising the world's first professor of e-governance, Ann Macintosh, director of Napier University's International...
Mature students fear the government's forthcoming review of student finance could drive tens of thousands of older learners away from higher education. As education secretary Charles Clarke gave his...
Desperate to shed the kilos piled on over Christmas? Round-the-clock help will soon be available from the University of Leeds, where researchers are setting up an interactive website. The nutrition...
Tony Blair, prime minister "Are we to have a flat fee for all universities, or will there be a variable fee, with different universities charging different fees? "Secondly, if we have a variable fee...
In the second of our series on what the government must address in its upcoming strategy paper, Alison Goddard considers the case for top-up and differential fees. Despite prime minister Tony Blair's...
United States Halfway through the academic year, and days before students were to leave for the winter holidays, public universities in California announced a 10 to 15 per cent increase in tuition...
European Union officials are drafting a policy paper urging EU institutions and member states to improve conditions for European researchers to help keep them in Europe. The European Commission will...
European Union and Australian university students will be able to study in each others' countries through a joint masters pilot project involving four Australian and four European institutions.
Finnish school-leavers will get a faster track to university entry if the ministry of education adopts a series of recommended reforms. Just 19 per cent of first-year university students come...
A new survey has dispelled the myth that English-taught degree courses in countries where English is a second language are dogged by poor language skills among students and professors. The Brussels-...
The head of Turkey's higher education council has attacked the new government's plans to introduce reforms aimed at giving universities more autonomy. Council chairman Kemal Guruz said the reforms...
The Bush administration has proposed tying some economic aid for US universities to their record of graduating students on time. The idea, opposed by many universities, is the most sweeping part of...
Australian historians are gearing up for a legal battle arising from claims that Tasmanian Aborigines and early British settlers did not engage in a war that ended with the near-extinction of the...
The World Bank has approved a $200 million loan (£125 million) to help the Colombian higher education system. The money should boost student numbers, especially from poorer social groups, and improve...