Contested histories 2
Future luckless authors of university histories may wish to know of the pitfalls. My manuscript on Keele University, for example, was criticised for having chapters that were too short - but how long...
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Doing the honours
My reputation for "impeccable manners" (In the News, THES , August 15) might be threatened if I did not point out that it was my wife, not I, who obtained a masters degree at York. Anthony McClaran...
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Today's news
More women given university places than men 21,000 more women than men have been accepted for university degree courses that start this year, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions...
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Latest research news
Nasa launches Universe probe A $2 billion (£1. billion) space observatory that can study the early history of the universe has been launched by the US space agency, Nasa. The Space Infrared Telescope...
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Today's news
High-tech Oxford gaining on its old rival Oxford University, which has lagged behind Cambridge as a centre for high-tech business, is closing the gap according to Lord Sainsbury, the science minister...
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Today's news
Ministers set for new push over tuition fees Ministers are preparing to relaunch their controversial student top-up fees policy this autumn, after privately admitting that they have failed to...
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Newcastle spin-off worms its way into US market
British worms are wriggling their way across the Atlantic to plug a gap in the supply for fishermen and fill the coffers of a University of Newcastle spin-off company, writes Esther Ingram. Seabait...
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Speaking their language
Alison Utley listens in at Leeds in the latest in our series on university cities. When schoolteachers approached the University of Leeds last year to ask whether any linguists would be willing to...
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Cheating inquiry reopens
New South Wales' Independent Commission against Corruption is investigating an allegation by a lecturer that the University of Newcastle, near Sydney, covered up plagiarism among students based in...
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Canadian fees soar as chiefs feel pinch
The cost of a Canadian undergraduate degree continues to soar. Students starting this autumn will pay an average of C$4,025 (£1,800) in tuition fees, up 7.4 per cent from the C$3,749 the year before...
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'No red tape, no strings' for ERC
The proposed European Research Council should support curiosity-driven research and spend funds handed over by the European Union with no strings attached, a scholarly association says. In its second...
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Does an early start work?
As clearing gets under way, we look at post-qualification admission systems abroad. How do other countries deal with matching applicants to places? In the UK, universities are embroiled in the...
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New Zealand: Past efforts are given greater emphasis
New Zealand Adapting to a new standards-based system of assessment for secondary school students is the challenge for New Zealand universities' admission procedures, writes Richard Thomson. From 2004...
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Ireland: System under fire but suits small country
Ireland "Brutal but fair" is the description often given to the system used to select university students in Ireland. Applications are made in January but offers are made only after the leaving...
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US: Controversial test is due to be revamped
US Controversy over standardised university admissions examinations in the US has made them as much a test of wills as a test of student aptitude, writes Jon Marcus. On one side of the debate are...