There are some unexpected changes in this year's league tables, notably in teaching quality and graduate jobs, says John O'Leary. Still, the old guard remains dominant on several measures as students...
The gulf between what teenagers expect to earn once they have a degree and what graduates are paid is revealed by new figures produced for The Times Higher . A league table of what graduates earned...
Palestinian academics this week demanded the dismissal of Sari Nusseibeh, president of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, for signing a statement with an Israeli university president condemning the...
Mauritanian security agents have detained students in the campus mosque at the University of Nouakchott. Sources say the students, believed to be involved in protests against Mauritania's links with...
The European Court of Human Rights is considering an appeal by Leyla Sahin, a former Istanbul medical student, against a decision that upheld Turkey's ban on headscarves on campuses. Ms Sahin is...
A new student group at Belgrade University angered non-governmental organisations and political parties in Serbia with a revisionist round table on "The truth about Srebrenica" - the 1995 massacre of...
Tsinghua University has signed a deal with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Oxford Brookes University to offer a foundation programme in accountancy. Students on the programme...
A week after Harvard University announced a programme to increase the number of women on its staff, an institution on the other side of the US has come under attack for hiring too few women. About...
Critics have rounded on a savings scheme proposed by the New Zealand Government to help families pay for their children's higher education. They say it will not improve participation among those on...
The Chinese education ministry has issued "yellow card" warnings to 60 universities and colleges this year, more than double the usual annual tally. A university that receives a yellow card must...
Two Australian academics have generated a storm of controversy over claims that torture is "morally defensible" even if it causes the deaths of innocent people. Mirko Bagaric, head of Deakin...
The Russian Government has asked the European Union for practical aid to help it participate in the Bologna Process. The deal focuses on higher education in detail and was approved in Moscow by...
Handouts, rather than speakers, are the main attraction at lectures nowadays. Maria Misra puts it down to students' taste for utility I've been lecturing as Oxford mounts a full lecture programme in...
Having problems delivering lectures to a large number of students? The mind is a fickle thing and, says Harriet Swain, if your audience is losing interest or simply can't hear you, you need to mix it...
Name: Harriett Gilbert Age: 56 Job: Programme director, MA in creative writing (novels), department of journalism and publishing, City University. Salary: Half the senior lecturer salary (mine's a 0....