Raising the bars
Mobile phone ownership across the continent is rocketing, but can it expand higher education’s reach and quality? Chris Parr investigates
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Africa’s mobile phone e-learning transformation
Mobile phone ownership across the continent is rocketing, but can it expand higher education’s reach and quality?
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So many aspirant doctors, so little time
EUA report uncovers global commonalities in PhD education. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Keep the cream, Willetts tells 'cash cow' business schools
Minister says cross-subsidisation of other units should be rethought. David Matthews writes
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Short and the long of it
The sector offers the total package: blue-skies insights for the future and industrial payoffs now, argues Nick Wright
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Campus round-up
Hot stuffResearchers have been awarded £765,000 for a three-year study into the physical processes behind the super-hot ionised plasma that appears on the Sun. The Science and Technology Facilities...
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Commission Communication - Innovation policy: updating the Union's approach in the context of the Lisbon strategy
Brussels, 14 Mar 2003 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Innovation policy:...
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International students like to be where someone knows their name
Family ties are a big influence on which location people choose for study. Julie Hare reports
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Bruising but beneficial
The coalition's controversial higher education reforms are delivering a more progressive and sustainable system, argues Vince Cable
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Higher education: Universities must deliver their full potential to contribute to the Lisbon strategy (plus link to MEMO)
Brussels, 20 April 2005 The European Commission adopted today a Communication on “Mobilising the brainpower of Europe: enabling universities to make their full contribution to the Lisbon...
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Appointments
Bucks New UniversityTheo GavrielidesBucks New University has appointed Theo Gavrielides visiting professor in youth policy at its School of Social Sciences, Primary Care and Education and made him a...
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News in brief
A-level reformsOnce a year is enough, says sectorStudents in England will no longer be able to sit A-level exams in January, Ofqual has said. From September 2013, students starting their courses will...
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Sandel on values when everything’s for sale
Matthew Reisz meets Harvard superstar Michael Sandel to discuss the preservation of the public good
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Access and excellence, locally and globally
In an era of disinvestment in the US’ public universities, the greatest of their number has improved its reputation through creativity, entrepreneurialism and innovation, says Robert Birgeneau
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Loud and clear
Researchers didn't hold back when EPSRC head Paul Golby asked for feedback on the council's workings. Things will improve, he vows