Colleges gamble on cut-price degrees
Cut-price degrees will be on offer next year from more than three quarters of "mixed economy" further and higher education colleges, a Times Higher survey has found. Colleges running honours degree...
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QAA tells Leeds Met to close loophole
Students are obtaining degrees without having to sit the most difficult parts of their courses, quality watchdogs have found. The problem was highlighted this week by the Quality Assurance Agency,...
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Campus beat
Trainee police officers from the Cleveland Constabulary are to be among the first recruits in the UK to study for a foundation degree in police studies. The two-year course, which is run by Teesside...
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More work on monitoring standards needed, say first light-touch audits
Universities and colleges need to undertake further work to improve the way they monitor and manage their academic standards, according to the Quality Assurance Agency, writes Phil Baty. In a report...
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Freely available dissertations sold on to students
Dissertations that are openly published on university websites are being sold to students to pass off as their work, an investigation by The Times Higher has found, writes Phil Baty. In yet another...
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Fearless in the face of assault on RAE summit
"Nothing in university life can scare me," Chris Jenks says candidly. He is not making a bullish boast but rather pointing out that the experiences he has encountered while indulging in his 30-year...
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Call to curb aid to cut fees
A movement gathering steam in the US aims to slow the growth of federal aid for students' tuition fees and to force universities to cut costs. The logic among the economists pushing the idea is that...
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Academics back stem-cell thaw
Italy's highest academic panel, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, has voted heavily in favour of research using stem cells from previously frozen embryos. The vote, by 58 to eight, with 14...
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Iraq closures on the cards
A national commission to guide the long-term reconstruction of Iraq's shattered higher education system, proposed this week by the United Nations University, may lead to the closure of institutions...
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Riot police summoned in Colombia to quell funding-quota protests
A decision by the Colombian Government to introduce competitive funding for the country's 33 state universities triggered demonstrations earlier this month. In Bogotá, more than 9,000 students...
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Thai students forced to get a loan for 'fast-food' education
Thai university students face increased fees as the Government's focus on free schools means there is little cash left for tertiary expansion. About 22 per cent of the national budget is spent on...
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Dissident is still teaching
The University of Botswana political scientist who was declared a prohibited immigrant in February after co-authoring a paper critical of his adopted country's democracy has yet to be deported and is...
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Jerusalem
The presidents of Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities this week immediately began planning personal appeals to British lecturers to work against the Association of University Teachers' boycott of Israeli...
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Moscow
Moscow's Higher School of Economics is cracking down on plagiarism with a code of conduct that allows it to expel students caught copying.
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Abidjan
Nigeria's Urban Development Bank has secured a $100 million (£52.4 million) loan to build private hostel accommodation at 25 federal universities in an attempt to end a housing crisis facing some 70...