European societies have been urged to commit 2 per cent of their gross domestic products to higher education as part of the "urgent action" needed to prevent them losing out to the US and Asia.A...
FEC report calls for efficiencies and offers support for research concentration. John Morgan reports
"A serious setback for empathy." That was how our Head of Personal Development, Jennifer Doubleday, described the tragic outcome of last Thursday's exercise in campus role-playing.Ms Doubleday told...
Merchandising should not dictate children's television, says Sally Feldman
Researchers now have a tool offering translations of open-access material in nine major languages. Paul Jump reports
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewersClaire Chambers is senior lecturer in postcolonial literature, Leeds Metropolitan University. She is reading Ghada Karmi's In Search of Fatima...
If you are a connoisseur of fortified wines, you are likely to be over 50. Enthusiast Aldwyn Cooper has enjoyed expanding his knowledge of the finest wines and can't understand why the young haven't...
Reform of the sector's pension scheme may be essential, but no single option will please everyone - not least students
Saudi Arabia's higher education leaders are obsessed with world rankings, but are aware that their universities do not compete well, and that rankings have not effectively measured much of what goes...
A French historian who devoted much of his career to the story of European industrialisation, the rise of Britain and the parallel decline of France has died.Francois Crouzet was born in the Vienne...
What exactly is "a realistic strategy for the future"? That is the core issue raised by Ann Mroz in last week's leader ("Stop with the gloom and doom", 17 June).She accuses me of "hysteria and...
I read with interest the article on the League of European Research Universities' argument that European Research Council funding should be doubled ("Less red tape, more euros, research alliance...
As a graduate of the University of Hong Kong and a professor at two Chinese universities, I was bemused to read Simon Marginson's article on the "Confucian model" of education ("Tigers burning bright...
The proposed tariff to tackle plagiarism lacks common sense ("Plagiarism tariff: let the punishment fit the demerit points", 17 June).If a first-year student "fails to attribute one sentence in a...
Tony Bruce of the Employers Pensions Forum (EPF) calls for "a rational debate" on the necessity for reforming the Universities Superannuation Scheme ("Debate, not threats", Letters, 10 June).The...