Where are they now?
The Higher Education Statistics Agency is to retrospectively review the careers of 65,000 graduates three and a half years after they left higher education. Results from the study, conducted by the...
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Degree of success
Welsh graduates earn some 46 per cent more than workers with A levels, and more are in graduate jobs than the UK average, a new report from the Institute of Employment Studies reveals. In 2003-04,...
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Student cash gift call
Universities told to ask for donations on top of fees to pay for campus projects. Claire Sanders reports Universities should ask students for voluntary financial donations on top of tuition fees, a...
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Take control of a flight into the future
In the second of our series on popular courses, Jessica Shepherd climbs aboard a simulator to discover why aerospace engineering is on the up The bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000 marked an end...
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Grumpies survey field's slag heaps
Academics at RGS meeting launch 'impassioned rant' to halt advance of postmodern obscurantism, reports Mark Rodgers A debate by a group of self-styled "Grumpy Old Geographers" on the "pomposity" of...
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Inside track...
Damned statistics? The UK could soon be left with just 12 or so statistics departments, with dozens more condemned to serve as mere support staff for other academic fields, it was claimed this week....
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Ventures with business present gains and pains
The future of university expansion or a false hope? In the first of three articles, Claire Sanders looks at increasing employer involvement in higher education Employer-led higher education is still...
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Teamwork gets results on and off the pitch
Sports clubs have been quicker than other businesses to recognise the benefits to be gained from partnerships with universities. writes Huw Richards. Huddersfield University's two-year venture with...
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'Initiatives such as sheffield hallam's foundation degree require commitment from companies'
For the past year, Alan Partridge has been working with a consortium of employers to set up a foundation degree in metallurgy in partnership with Sheffield Hallam University. The aim is to launch the...
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Childcare tops the expansion agenda
The most significant growth in employer-led higher education is expected to come from the public sector, notably government investment in children's services and from police training. Sean Mackney,...
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Melbourne set to give Bologna model an ߣߣÊÓƵn debut
In a radical break with its 150-year-old traditions, the University of Melbourne is to be the first in ߣߣÊÓƵ to adopt the model set out in the Bologna Declaration. Instead of the focus on...
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Report attacks US standards
Universities fight charges that the learning they provide is poor and too costly, says Jon Marcus US universities and colleges expect that a government report this month will criticise the price and...
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Decline in population hits quality of Russian undergraduates
The Times Higher looks at how demographic change could affect universities Stiff competition for university places in Russia has lessened as the number of school-leavers has declined over the past...
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Numbers fall but Italy just shrugs
The nation with Europe's lowest birth rate is relaxed about the possibility of a dwindling student population. The total number of students in Italy grew steadily in the 1980s and 1990s. It crept up...
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EU fears over class of 2050
A projected fall in population for a number of European Union countries by 2050 has given rise to widespread concern across the EU about the consequences for higher education. According to Eurostat,...