Participation premium may be in for a boost
The Government has signalled that it may look again at the premium it pays universities to teach working-class students after one vice-chancellor attacked the "staggering" financial gap between old...
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Report proposes developing skills of whole workforce
The Government should expand higher education further to encourage institutions to enter the potentially lucrative workforce development market, a report says this week. The present aim to get half...
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'Deplorable' pay inequity persists
Female academics continue to earn less than their male counterparts on average across all job grades, from professors to junior researchers, figures shown exclusively to The Times Higher reveal. Data...
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China asks for ߣߣÊÓƵn help to educate one million citizens
China has appealed to ߣߣÊÓƵ to help educate 1 million of its citizens. Brendan Nelson, the Federal Education Minister, said that on a recent visit to Beijing, China's Education Minister, Zhou Ji...
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Stricter checks on study abroad
Malaysia's Higher Education Ministry is to keep a tighter check on students who go overseas to study. Students, both government-sponsored and private, will have to obtain a certificate before being...
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Academic eyes turn to Katrina's fallout
University researchers are joining relief workers and clean-up crews in New Orleans. They are aiming to study aspects of the disaster that emptied the city, from the media coverage of Hurricane...
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Rector nearly quit over limits on power
The new rector of the embryonic University of Luxembourg considered resignation just three months into his appointment as a replacement for his predecessor, who died before the institution was up and...
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Italian medics accused of corruption and nepotism
Yet another judicial investigation has revealed nepotism and corruption in assigning teaching posts at Italy's universities. The latest in a series of exposes of concorsi - national competitive exams...
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Red faces over election tactics
The New Zealand Labour Party's hopes of hanging on to power in last week's general election may have been dashed when its grand gesture of abolishing interest payments on student loans lost some of...
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Genocide finally gets scholarly inquest
Despite death threats, two postponements and the presence of hundreds of protesters, an academic conference on the mass killings of Armenians living in Turkey in 1915 went ahead under heavy police...
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Debt up but defaults down
Fewer American students are defaulting on loans despite increased indebtedness. The student loan default rate fell to 4.5 per cent in 2003, the latest year for which the figure is available,...
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Make no mistake, the QAA will tell it like it is
Vice-chancellors take note, quality assurance has come of age - it is no longer a beast of burden, says Peter Williams Whatever was on the minds of vice-chancellors when they met for their...
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Alison Wolf
Learning in the 21st century was predicted to change radically, but students still want the age-old university model It is always fascinating to read earlier writers' predictions and compare them...
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Indecent proposal
Lord Kinnock, chair of the British Council, knows a bit about marketing. While chairing a meeting with Universities UK he warned that the sector would have to think hard about how to lure overseas...
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Cutting it fine
The stopwatches were out to time Education Secretary Ruth Kelly's appearance at a reception hosted by the Association of University Teachers, Natfhe and the National Union of Students at Labour's...