Universities in Australia have welcomed the "timely" decision by the country's federal government to review its student-visa system in light of the recent collapse in demand from overseas students....
Greats back humanities' role in democratic health and personal consolation. Matthew Reisz writes
Joining forces to finance services could yield total near to budget reduction. Simon Baker writes
Funding for the Aimhigher scheme may be ending in 2011, but the lessons of its success in widening access to university through summer schools "need to be taken forward into the new policy...
MergersCombination in principleTwo universities have agreed in principle to merge and create a single institution for southwest Wales. Swansea Metropolitan University and the University of Wales...
Matthew Reisz on the neurologists probing the social side of clever corvids and teenage dreamers
This handbill alerted Londoners to a rare opportunity to see "two kaamas's" - probably tapirs - "at the sign of the Coach and Horses" in Charing Cross, London.
Aberdeen students buck trend and grab chance to study foreign languages. Hannah Fearn writes
Founding fathers of 'moral panic' thesis discuss its modern manifestations. Matthew Reisz writes
A liberal arts education will help to strengthen the state of Israel, according to a think tank that plans to open Israel's first liberal arts college.
Liberal arts degrees are appearing in the UK and arousing much interest. Protagonists claim that the wide-ranging education provides more rounded individuals who are better prepared for modern...
The high tuition fees paid by overseas students are an attractive source of revenue in these straitened times. But will higher education reforms change all that? Matthew Partridge investigates
Academics have long been criticised for being out of touch with the real world. Matthew Reisz finds that many make great efforts to dispel ivory tower attitudes, but others believe such habits will...
Duncan Wu suspends his disbelief to enjoy Russell Crowe as a gun-toting, all-action college teacher
The butterfly encourages people's imagination to take flight, says Gary Day, but are its days numbered?