More students than ever are satisfied with their university experience, the results of this year's National Student Survey show, writes Rebecca Attwood. Initial data indicate that students have given...
United front The Welsh Assembly's new Education Minister, Jane Hutt, reveals why mergers are back on the agenda PLUS A below-stairs perspective on Virginia Woolf
The proportion of students undertaking paid employment during term time has fallen for the first time in four years, according to the Royal Bank of Scotland Student Living Index, 2007. It found that...
Graduates of Merton College, Oxford have again been the most successful in their final exams, according to the official Norrington Table. Merton has been top of the table, which ranks colleges...
Vice-chancellors in Scotland have welcomed the announcement by the Scottish Executive that the children of asylum-seekers will not have to pay tuition fees. Children of asylum-seekers who have been...
Robert Burgess, vice-chancellor of Leicester University, has taken over the chair of the Higher Education Academy. He succeeds Leslie Wagner, who has retired at the end of his three-year term of...
Is the truth out there? A small but dedicated band of academics looks for answers in the world of the paranormal. Louise Radnofsky reports More than two decades after a trio of fictional...
Universities must not view overseas students as "cash cows", MPs said this week, Rebecca Attwood writes. If recruitment of international students is driven by short-term gains in fee income,...
The "arbitrary" funding divide between full-time and part-time students must end, a cross-party committee of MPs has demanded, Rebecca Attwood writes. In a new report, the Education and Skills...
An academic at Imperial College London is the first woman to win the British Pharmaceutical Conference Science Medal of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in the award's 40-year history. Molly Stevens...
The John Rylands University Library at Manchester University has secured the papers of Mary Hamilton (1756-1816), the courtier, diarist and "bluestocking". Manchester said that the archive offered "...
Geoff Meads of Winchester University has received the European Health Management Association's $5,000 Baxter Prize for an outstanding publication contributing to excellence in healthcare management...
The Royal Northern College of Music has appointed Jonty Stockdale as its next principal. Professor Stockdale, head of the School of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, will...
In our article "EU institute starts to take shape" (Times Higher August 3), we quoted David Livesey, secretary-general of the League of European Research Universities, as saying that the European...
If it can takes decades to recognise the value of a breakthrough, Melanie Newman asks how research councils will ensure that basic science survives along with work that is focused on more immediate...