The UK is thought to be the most expensive study destination in the world by international students living in countries identified as key emerging target markets for British institutions, a survey...
A Hepi survey of students' experiences and expectations in the UK finds wide variation in what is offered by different institutions. Anthea Lipsett reports. Huge variations in the number of hours...
When Birmingham University research fellow Silvia Ramos began teaching three years ago, it took her up to four hours to prepare for an hour's tutorial. Now she is a course supervisor for a fourth-...
More than one in ten overseas students believes they have been misled by claims made in university prospectuses, the Higher Education Policy Institute report found. This has rung "alarm bells" about...
Students would want any extra income generated by their fees to be used to reduce class and lecture sizes, according to the Higher Education Policy Institute survey. Nearly a third of the 15,000...
Belarussian students critical of their country's regime have welcomed a €5 million (£3.5 million) European Union scholarship programme for students expelled from universities for their political...
Business studies students net a £10K prize with a keg home-delivery service, reports Geoff Maslen. Two enterprising Melbourne students who love a good party have won a $25,000 (£10,115) business plan...
Zimbabwe is to establish an "intellectual desk" at the Ministry of Higher and Further Education. It will target lecturers living abroad to help tackle the country's growing skills gap. The Government...
Local and Senate elections in the Czech Republic last weekend may end a political stalemate that has stalled anticipated university reforms. A general election last summer led to a hung Parliament,...
Schemes to raise the educational gains of Venezuela's poor have had a mixed response, says Jose Orozco. Venezuela has launched a scheme to encourage the country's poor, who have been shut out of...
The whitewashed classroom at the University of California, Berkeley, looks quite ordinary. But the questions from the students are extraordinarily emotional and plaintive. "You've had a child before...
The veil conceals but reveals, restricts but liberates. Meena Dhanda peers beneath the layers of meaning. A figure in black walks by with an armload of books. I turn around to say hello. It is my...
The best lectures I attended as a student were given by a spellbinding psychiatrist. He used no teaching aid except his hypnotic Viennese accent. Yet once heard, his spoken lessons were never...
The affable Lord Giddens showed a steely side when he put one foreign journalist in her place recently. During an evening event organised by the Foreign Press Association, just off London's Mall, he...
University journalism departments no doubt encourage students to write for the student newspaper or magazine. But perhaps it is best if they do not read what their charges write - if the contribution...