Scientists should agree not to publish experiments into increasing the virulence of potentially dangerous microbes such as the bird flu virus until wider society can agree on “the balance that must...
Obama higher education plan signals policy shift
University applications from UK-based students have fallen by 8.7 per cent, official figures show, with those in England falling further still.
The effect of the government’s student visa policies on private higher education colleges has been “swift and probably even more devastating than was predicted”, according to a think tank.
A professor of architecture has been appointed as the next head of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
The government has named its preferred candidate to lead the university access watchdog the Office for Fair Access.
A motion of no confidence in University College London provost Malcolm Grant tabled by the institution’s students’ union has been defeated.
An independent commission has been set up to see if higher tuition fees are deterring poorer students from applying to university.
The government is to clamp down on over-recruitment of students by universities in order to keep costs under control, according to this year’s grant letter.
A university does not need a charter or even walls - open minds are enough, argue groups whose challenges to convention have been invigorated by recent protest movements. Jack Grove reports
With the best of intentions and the worst of outcomes, anonymous marking discredits lecturers and serves students badly. George MacDonald Ross believes greater trust will lead to fairness for all
John Gilbey welcomes clear explanations of the invisible technology in devices we use every day
The admission or denial of entry to foreign nationals is fraught with moral dilemmas, finds Paul Scheffer
Without having lived through it first hand, it is hard to grasp the magnitude of the change to daily life in the Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the region's Communist regimes in the late 20th...
Michael Roth, the author of this exceptional and wide-ranging collection of essays, is the president of Wesleyan University, which, in addition, one imagines, to being a very time-consuming job, also...