Take a punt, but don't get sold down foreign rivers
Conference hears the potential risks and rewards of setting up a campus overseas. Hannah Fearn writes
Conference hears the potential risks and rewards of setting up a campus overseas. Hannah Fearn writes
Keele UniversityCollaboration bears fruitA British university has awarded its first degrees to students in Malaysia. Keele University made the awards to more than 100 students in two ceremonies...
University of Edinburgh, Greg WalkerThe Regius chair of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Edinburgh will be filled by Greg Walker, who was been Masson professor of English at the...
Ron Dearing left school at 16, but his unstinting devotion to higher education's highest aims have left the UK sector a better place
Staffordshire UniversityMaths cash bonus adds upA university is introducing a teacher training course in secondary mathematics with a £9,000 bursary, reflecting the national shortage of teachers in...
University chancellors are a mixed bag of rock stars and actors, politicians and entrepreneurs, but are they mere glad-handing figureheads or can they make a genuine difference to the institution...
UNIVERSITY FUNDRAISINGWhitehall sets matching schemeThe Government has confirmed details of a scheme that will boost incentives for universities to fundraise. Following a consultation with the higher...
In a time of unprecedented change for the UK's academy, its leaders are under the spotlight as never before. Accordingly, Times Higher Education has augmented its annual survey of pay in the sector...
The co-author of the controversial report on top-up fees commissioned by the Russell Group of top research universities has hit back at critics. David Greenaway, pro vice-chancellor at Nottingham...
David Greenaway has failed to realise in his report to the Russell Group that public spending on higher education is at least as good an investment for the government as it is for the individual (...
David Greenaway et al have too rosy a view of "socially inclusive" Harvard charging high fees to the rich with big scholarship discounts for the needy. Elite American universities recruit fewer...
There will be no easy rides for anyone in higher education in 2010. Figures from the sector reflect on influences and aims
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL- Award winner: Philip CowenInstitution: University of OxfordValue: £1,698,664Clinical psychopharmacology of 5-HT- Award winner: Mark JohnsonInstitution: Birkbeck, University...
Via study-away sites, local partnerships, portals and fully fledged overseas campuses, ambitious universities in the West are increasingly keen to take root elsewhere. John Morgan asks how the...
* Sheila Drury, chair of the North Wales Regional Committee, has been appointed chair of the National Council of Education and Learning Wales. * Judith Rowley will take over as president of the...