'You're hired'...no, wait...'You've got a scholarship'?
Ghana tunes in for British Council’s Apprentice-style reality TV show. David Matthews reports
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THE podcast: David Miliband
Podcast Powered By PodbeanFormer foreign secretary and Labour MP David Miliband discusses the rationale behind his tour of UK universities, the importance of higher education institutions paying the...
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THE podcast: Carsten Maple
Podcast Powered By PodbeanCarsten Maple, director of the National Cyberstalking Centre at the University of Bedfordshire, and pro-vice chancellor of research and enterprise, discusses the impact and...
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Transfer of powers: legal question hangs over University of Law
Legal expert identifies ‘unclear’ structure of landmark in coalition policy. John Morgan reports
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The week in higher education
• A British scientist caught smuggling cocaine in a bid to impress someone he thought was a former Miss Bikini World has been jailed for almost five years, the Daily Mail reported on 21 November....
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Tim Rix, 1934-2012
One of the UK's leading academic publishers has died.Tim Rix was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire on 4 January 1934 and educated at Radley College. After national service in the Royal Navy, he studied...
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Leader: Restate the statements of intent
Learning outcomes' laudable vision has been obscured by bureaucracy and the market: it's time to return to first principles
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Odds and Quads
The "Beveridge Report" (officially the Social Insurance and Allied Services report), which laid the basis for the post-war welfare state, was published 70 years ago this week. This is said to be the...
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Birthplace of Arab Spring, deathbed of academic freedom?
A dean’s legal battle has wider implications for Tunisia’s universities. Matthew Reisz writes
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Royal title for famous drama school
The Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, has been granted royal title by the Queen.
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Large drop in early university applications
The number of people applying to universities in the UK as part of the main applications cycle has fallen by 14 per cent compared with last year, new figures show.
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Canada's McGill University wins World University Rankings' video competition
One of the greatest strengths of the higher education world is its diversity - and this shone through in a competition asking filmmakers to describe what it is that makes their institution world...
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Minister eyes postgraduate plan for national lab
The government is looking for one or more academic partners for the National Physical Laboratory, potentially turning the government-owned facility into a postgraduate institute.
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Willetts gives green light for 10 new universities
David Willetts is to recommend that 10 small specialist colleges be granted university title, in what he describes as "the biggest creation of universities since 1992".
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Finland and South Korea top the Learning Curve
Finland and South Korea boast the most effective education systems, an assessment of 50 countries has found.