If teaching needs fixing, is TEF the right tool for the job?
Giving evidence to a BIS committee inquiry on assessing the quality of higher education provoked questions about how teaching might be measured, writes John Gill
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Teach all computing students about cybersecurity, universities told
Teaching criteria updated in response to government and industry demands
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Aberdeen first UK university to open campus in South Korea
The University of Aberdeen is set to become the first UK higher education institution to open a campus in South Korea
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The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition, by Manisha Sinha
Book of the week: Blacks were key agents in the international battle against slavery, Olivette Otele writes
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Hungary moves to boost its higher education standing
New plans focus on putting Hungarian higher education on solid international foundations
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Interview with Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze
We talk to the French academic and novelist about her ambitions in nuclear physics and REF fatigue
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Vince Cable: Tories admit their overseas student policy ‘damages UK’
Former business secretary’s book says PM cannot move Theresa May ‘an inch’ and reveals Lib Dems had plan to protect higher education and science budgets under new coalition
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New faces take a seat at extended top table
Wider reach is good news for the BRIC nations and other developing economies. Ellie Bothwell reports
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International students 'oversimplify ethical dilemmas'
Training needs to recognise US and overseas students’ different approaches to decision-making, study concludes
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What does 2016 have in store for higher education?
Our bloggers and social media followers gaze into their crystal balls and predict what the year in HE might look like
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Making the future with nanoelectronics: a strategy for Europe
Brussels, 29 June 2004 To become the world’s most competitive powerhouse, Europe must lead the transition of the micro-electronics sector to the next generation of nano-electronics, with co-ordinated...
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Climate change will take all our expertise
Universal challenges demand cross-disciplinary focus, argues Dame Julia King, and a thematic approach to university teaching will be essential
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ߣߣÊÓƵ World Academic Summit 2015 to take place in Melbourne
The ߣߣÊÓƵ World Academic Summit 2015 will take place in Melbourne, ߣߣÊÓƵ, in partnership with the University of Melbourne
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Birmingham academics on course to strike over grant income demands
About 80 per cent of UCU members prepared to take industrial action over expectations on external income and other issues
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Aung San Suu Kyi inspires University of Oxford to help Myanmar
University academics answer an appeal for help from country's inspirational leader