Russia is considering introducing a student loans system to help fund its higher education sector. With student numbers approaching 6 million and with annual federal funding of £4 billion, which is...
Universities anxious to rise up America's all-important rankings are spending an increasing amount of financial aid on smart students from wealthy families while financial aid for poor students...
New Zealand's censor has banned a student magazine after it carried a "how to" article about date rape, purportedly written from the rapist's point of view. Otago University's Critic Te Arohi has for...
The Norwegian language is under pressure in Norway's universities as academics are encouraged to use English when publishing their research. The University of Oslo has become the first institution to...
Mafia-style criminal gangs are selling leaked question papers to desperate Indian university students, writes Raghavendra Verma in New Delhi. Senior academics are warning that students are resorting...
The dual leadership system of France's National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS) will be changed to avoid potential conflict between the president and the director-general of the kind that led to a...
A Russian political scientist has been deported from Ukraine after being detained at an airport in Crimea on his way to address a seminar at Tavryda University. Kirill Frolov of the Institute of the...
Humility and integrity require Muslims to mock themselves every once in a while, argues Irshad Manji At the World Economic Forum in Davos last month, I observed something revealing. In a session...
Do you remember a big admissions scandal a few years ago in which an undercover reporter convinced a couple of Oxford dons that he would donate £300,000 if they created an extra place on one of their...
Big players across the university sector are still somehow finding the time to rake feverishly over the impending appointment of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's new chief executive...
Universities can't be blamed for tripping over themselves to woo students as they try to balance their books. But outraged staff at Birkbeck, University of London, told us this week that their...
Pharmaceutical giant Procter & Gamble has been praised for taking a rare stand for honesty in drug marketing by suing its rivals, Roche and GlaxoSmithKline, over allegedly misleading claims...
ALCHEMY: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF TRANSFORMATION. Cube3 Gallery, Portland Square, North Hill, Plymouth University. Until April 7 Driving into Plymouth, I can see the city is being transformed again....
With its War on Terror, the US undermines a budding democracy that could stabilise the Middle East, argues Elaheh Koolaee Like most people around the world, Iranians anxiously watched television...
Academic books for the general reader may become a thing of the past if the power of book retailers grows, says Maria Misra I was immensely pleased to see that Rana Mitter won The Times Higher 's...