Balliol head shifts to praise reforms
The battle to reform governance at Oxford University intensified this week as a college head and former critic of the reforms sent a ringing endorsement in a letter circulated to fellow heads. Andrew...
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UK holds its own against US giants
Well-funded institutions in rich nations lead the table, but Martin Ince finds a few surprises farther down the ranks Cambridge and Oxford universities and Imperial College London take three of the...
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Tuition fees on front line of election campaigns
Higher education is at the fore in the races for US Congress, reports Jon Marcus The cost of higher education has become a major issue in next month's US congressional elections, with the Democrats...
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A clever stroke unites Europe
Juliana Galan combined her passion for swimming with a project for her masters course by organising the First European Swimming Classic competition. Ms Galan is a US student undertaking a European...
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Removal of rector causes concern
The European Union has expressed concern about the suspension of the rector of the Albanian-language State University of Tetovo. Erwan Fouere, the EU's Special Representative in Skopje, said this...
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Lebanon counts war's cost
Lebanese universities have escaped the student exodus they had feared would result after the war between Israel and Hezbollah, but the conflict cost lives, financial losses and a reduction in the...
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Russia to pilot loans scheme
The Russian Government has approved a pilot scheme to provide training credits that could pave the way for a system of privately funded, state-backed student loans, writes Nick Holdsworth, in Moscow...
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White students claim race bias
White students in Pretoria painted themselves black and wrote to Thabo Mbeki, the President of South Africa, asking to be reclassified as "African" in a protest against what they see as...
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Global push is driven by rivalry, study says
Desire to gild reputations rather than to foster co-operation motivates internationalisation, finds Michael Delaney International competitiveness is a higher priority for universities worldwide than...
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Research plan hitch
Australia's attempts to devise a research quality framework (RQF) for allocating nearly A$600 million (£242 million) a year in grants have run into further opposition. The Group of Eight research-...
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Turkey takes German ally
Turkey and Germany are to establish a joint university in Istanbul - the first joint enterprise with a foreign country to open in Turkey. On a visit to Istanbul last week, Angela Merkel, the German...
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UCU members will not spy on Islamic students
Staff are being asked to alert the police to 'extremists' but Paul Mackney refuses to participate in the politics of paranoia Sometimes you wake up to the Today programme and have to pinch yourself...
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Alison Wolf
When we describe someone as "both judge and jury", we do not mean it as a compliment. We know that monopolists are likely to be inefficient and to overcharge. Yet government departments and agencies...
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Chris McManus: Wittgenstein would have whistled along
MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT Palace Theatre, London Had he lived two decades longer, an 80-year-old Wittgenstein could have watched the inspired lunacies of the first two series of Monty Python. And then...
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Chronicle of a vote foretold?
Eagle-eyed delegates at last week's University and College Union conference on the future of research assessment will have noticed that elections for the union's general secretary are already a...