UK fails to integrate overseas students
Institutions warned to act now or lose foreign income to rivals. Rebecca Attwood and Tariq Tahir report Overseas students will spurn UK universities unless more effort is made to integrate them, the...
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Palestinians accuse UCU
Palestinian academic leaders have launched a bitter attack on the UK's University and College Union, accusing it of suppressing debate and undermining academic freedom. The Federation of Unions of...
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UCE adopts new identity
The University of Central England in Birmingham unveiled a new name this week, along with plans to slash the number of its sites and invest £250 million in a new city-centre campus, Rebecca Attwood...
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Goldsmiths ditches the 'alcohol-centred cheesy disco culture'
Goldsmiths, University of London, announced this week that it was responding to the changing student demographic by moving its freshers' week away from alcohol-centred student events. The Students...
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Students shun foreign peers
UK students demonstrate "passive xenophobia" towards international students, threatening the UK's position in the global education market, according to new research. Interactions between home and...
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Redwood: set all students a minimum entry hurdle
Melanie Newman reports on the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool A minimum entry hurdle Melanie Newman reports on the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool A national minimum university...
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McVicar warns Tories: University funding cuts would hurt economy
The Conservatives were warned not to cut public funding to universities to pay for tax breaks. Speaking to The Times Higher ahead of a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference, Malcolm...
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Willetts questions HE value for money
Shadow Secretary of State for Universities David Willetts attacked the quality of some higher education in the UK at the Conservative Party conference this week. Speaking at a Policy Exchange fringe...
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Fund UK postgrads or lose them, says Cambridge v-c
The vice-chancellor of Cambridge University has called for funding for UK postgraduates to be improved as "a matter of urgency". In her annual address at the start of the new academic year, Alison...
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King's College takes the crown for PhD completions
King's College London is clear that its remarkable success in getting its PhD students to complete their doctorates in good time is down to two things: the quality of the students it accepts and the...
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Minority students' data tracked
Asian and black students on full-time PhD programmes are 10 per cent less likely to complete their doctorates in ten years than white students, according to a separate report on overall entry and...
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Cumbria adds campus
Cumbria University is to set up a campus in Workington, West Cumbria, thanks to a £10 million donation from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The authority has agreed to support the development...
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Bid for Bliss
A consortium of the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK and University College London has made it to the final round of bidding to secure a site behind the British...
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Bodleian expands
Work on a new book depository for Oxford University's main research library, the Bodleian, is due to start imminently after the project was approved last week. The depository, at Osney Mead near the...
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New Essex chief
Colin Riordan took over as the vice-chancellor of Essex University on October 1. He replaced Sir Ivor Crewe, who has retired after 12 years. Professor Riordan was formerly pro vice-chancellor at...