Lancaster University's pioneering scheme to ensure that PhD vivas are not open to abuse has proved a success despite initially being condemned by academics as unnecessary and insulting. Concerns have...
Plymouth University this week enhanced its growing reputation as one of the UK's most innovative teaching institutions with the launch of four Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning. The only...
The Government is to cut its flagship widening participation budget by more than a fifth over the next two years, raising doubts about its commitment to improving access to universities. Aimhigher, a...
A clearer picture of how much it costs universities to teach each subject will be at the heart of a revamp of the £4 billion teaching funding system, it emerged this week. The initiative, which...
The UK should be wary of following the North American example of setting a national aptitude test for university admissions, a senior official at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
Familiar names top the lists but others have reason to cheer, especially in belles-lettres, says Martin Ince Harvard is the big winner in the last of The Times Higher faculty-level analyses of world...
This table [see link to table below] shows the world's most productive non-university institutions in the social sciences. It covers institutions with more than 5,000 papers in the Thomson Scientific...
The motto of the University of Chicago is Crescat scientia; vita excolatur : "Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched." The cerebral private university lives up to this...
Proposed legislation meant to make things easier for US universities and staff affected by Hurricane Katrina has created opportunities for profit-making proprietary schools. Senate Bill 1715 removes...
New Zealand's universities are aiming to differentiate themselves clearly from the country's polytechnics, writes Richard Thomson in Wellington. The universities hope discussions with the Government...
The European Commission's idea of creating a European Institute of Technology (EIT) to rival the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has sparked hostility and scepticism among universities....
France's universities must attract better-qualified foreign students if they are to meet research and development objectives, according to the state planning commission, the Commissariat du Plan. The...
The Canadian Government is to skirt the provinces' educational power by giving money directly to tens of thousands of post-secondary students, cutting the cost of attending university. Belinda...
European Union membership talks with Turkey will lead to a major overhaul of the way the country’s universities are run, according to Hüseyin Çelik, the Education Minister. Yok, the higher education...
An increased package of financial aid for part-timers will bring benefits for students and institutions, Bill Rammell writes This week, I announced the funding arrangements for part-time...