UK universities must pool their resources at home and abroad to offer support to academic refugees forced to flee their homelands, it was claimed this week. The Council for Assisting Refugee...
Phil Baty reports on the fourth institution to receive a 'limited confidence' rating Quality watchdogs have reported only "limited confidence" in academic standards at Luton University almost two...
Phil Baty reports on the fourth institution to receive a 'limited confidence' rating The quality watchdog's light-touch audit regime will become even lighter under proposals published for...
Phil Baty reports on the fourth institution to receive a 'limited confidence' rating Quality watchdogs have cast doubt on plans to deliver more courses through further education colleges, after...
The Times Higher examines the reactions to the international guidelines on transborder higher education When crunch ministerial talks on trade liberalisation resume in Hong Kong next month, the odds...
The Times Higher examines the reactions to the international guidelines on transborder higher education "What's the point?" summarises the reaction of the traditional US higher education industry to...
The Times Higher examines the reactions to the international guidelines on transborder higher education For more than two years, South Africa has been a cheerleader for the developing world against...
The Times Higher examines the reactions to the international guidelines on transborder higher education The European Union secretly made a formal offer this summer on liberalising access to its...
The Times Higher examines the reactions to the international guidelines on transborder higher education Australian universities are concerned that there may be further cuts to their federal grants...
The Times Higher examines the reactions to the international guidelines on transborder higher education European Union trade commissioner Peter Mandelson is at the forefront of efforts to liberalise...
The centenary of C. P. Snow's birth may be just the time to revisit his debate on the intellectual divide, says Brian Morton C. P. Snow was born 100 years ago this month. He's not much read now, but...
Learning and teaching? Ah, that's what was once called education. But the problem's the same: how do we teach our students? They're back. No, this is not the trailer for some horror film, nor does it...
Barry Sheerman, the chairman of the Education and Skills Select Committee, showed himself a stickler for parliamentary etiquette when Ruth Kelly, the Education Secretary, gave evidence last week....
But Mr Sheerman has also been accused of "going ballistic" and wagging his finger at one of his committee members, the Tory MP Nadine Dorries. Ms Dorries has called for him to stand down and has...
Staff at the University of the West of England are hopping with excitement about their new vice-chancellor, Sir Howard Newby, who is due to start in February. Even the students were talking about it...