Doncaster edges closer towards new status
Doncaster took a "major step" towards gaining its own university today as a further education college campus was officially designated a "University Centre". Leaders of the Doncaster Education City...
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£50m to coax Welsh to pool their ideas
A £50 million carrot is being dangled before Welsh universities and colleges in an increasingly desperate bid by the funding council to encourage them to merge and to form strategic alliances, writes...
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Elite: fork out for research
ߣߣÊÓƵ's elite research-intensive universities have praised UK Chancellor Gordon Brown's commitment to increase science spending in Britain. But the Group of Eight angered Brendan Nelson, Federal...
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South Africa to replenish science after drought
South Africa's Department of Science and Technology aims to double national spending on research and development over the next six years. Universities and the country's array of science councils hope...
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Italy revives its cultural past with a mix-and-match haven for artists
Rome's academies of art, music, theatre and dance, some of which date back to the Renaissance and Baroque periods, are to merge into one multidisciplinary "arts pole" where students can mix-and-match...
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Bush push to publish accreditation
The Bush Administration and Republicans in the US Congress want university accreditation reports - mostly confidential - to be made available to students and their parents. For more than a century,...
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Court to hear case for fees
Germany may have to abandon its nationwide ban on tuition fees if the Government is told to amend a law on higher education it passed several years ago. The federal constitutional court is to hear a...
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Students lose funds
European student organisations claim that a European Commission rule that has left them without European Union funding for two years is crippling their ability to serve members. Two years ago, the...
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Simon Fraser opts for breadth of study
Vancouver's Simon Fraser University is to make maths students master Milton and literature students learn linear algebra in a reform that will stress breadth of study over specialisation. From the...
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Scots need to counter England's fees bonanza
The Scottish Executive must maintain the competitive position of Scotland's higher education, says David Caldwell The management of higher education may be a devolved function, but for the past year...
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Gary Day
Tuition fees are all very well, but why stop there? Why doesn't the Prime Minister strip the post-1992 institutions of their university status? To: Lucinda Lumley-Bottom, The Torygraph From: Fenton...
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Upfront and downmarket
An annoyed Oxford academic dispatched a tongue-in-cheek email last week to complain that The Times Higher had given Oxford reject Laura Spence a say about her experiences at Harvard. His missive...
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A heavy hint, possibly
A picture of drug control expert David Cowan raising a glass adorns the front page of the in-house magazine of King's College London to mark the academic's role in the testing of athletes heading to...
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No shrinking violets
While Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, talks of introducing austerity measures in Whitehall and swingeing cuts in the number of civil servants, an advertisement has appeared for a new director of...
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Burnt offerings, please
If April is the cruellest month, August is the one most likely to turn academics green with envy as vice-chancellors jet off to warmer climes on holiday. We eagerly await your nominations for the...