Engineering scholarships worth thousands of pounds have been left on the shelf because not enough school leavers want to study a degree in the troubled discipline, The Times Higher can reveal. The UK...
What do money markets, molecules and magma have in common? A cohort of talented, energetic researchers in physical sciences, as Anthea Lipsett reports. The widely held view of academics in the...
The lack of an old girls' network hinders chances of success, says Jon Marcus Researchers at Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Berkeley have found that women in the sciences are...
Australia's opposition Labor Party says it will bar universities from charging home students full tuition fees if it wins next year's federal election. The pledge coincides with the disclosure that...
Jordan's Higher Education Ministry has been inundated with bids to set up private universities. Of 24 applications received last year, four were given permission to proceed - three of them graduate...
Legal scholars are at the forefront of a campaign to block the Japanese Government's proposed Bill on education, arguing that it breaches the constitution. As the coalition Government gears up for...
But not everyone thinks it's fair, reports Genevieve Hesse. In an initiative started in 2001, talented young people from deprived Parisian suburbs have enrolled on a special programme at the elite...
The Icelandic Government is facing a legal challenge to its restrictive student loans regulations. The European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Surveillance Authority considers that the rules break European...
The UK is unlikely to ever resurrect its past spirit of exporting education for free, laments John Sutherland. One of the few consolations for having served a full, 40-year academic career (four life...
I had to look twice before I could believe my eyes. Yes, that was a skull dangling on the end of my garden fork. It was a long time ago, and I was working in a cemetery in Newbury. It was a bit of a...
Demanding a better education "Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today," said Malcolm X. In a climate of fear, mistrust, misinformation,...
It seems that cost cutting at the research councils knows no bounds. This year's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council annual report was sent to academics without the postage paid -...
Pity Bedfordshire University. Just weeks after ditching the Luton University name, a moniker often unfairly deemed synonymous with bums-on-seats dumbing down, cynical readers have pointed out that...
Surely vice-chancellors are far too busy lunching with corporate and political big cheeses for a weekly current affairs chat with students? Not Terence Kealey, Buckingham University's vice-chancellor...
Some academics at Queen Mary, University of London were less than impressed with a document sent out by the HR department, titled The People Strategy 2006/8 . It includes plans to create "career...