'I never saw it as a disability'
Facing an obstacle such as dyslexia may motivate students to achieve more than their peers, according to James Lloyd. Mr Lloyd, 25, was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of ten. He received extra...
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RS quells bias rumours
The traditionally male-dominated Royal Society moved a small step closer to equality last week when it appointed four female fellows. The society announced the appointment of 44 fellows - one of the...
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Women told to find 'lab of their own' to succeed
Forget textbooks and scientific role models, struggling female scientists seeking inspiration should turn to the novelist Virginia Woolf, according to Julia Goodfellow, chief executive of the...
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Eye on enterprise and global reach
Oxford and Wolverhampton represent opposite ends of the league tables. Claire Sanders and Tony Tysome visit them in search of common ground Get off the train at Oxford and the university's Said...
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Regional focus puts local people first
Oxford and Wolverhampton represent opposite ends of the league tables. Claire Sanders and Tony Tysome visit them in search of common ground The taxi driver pulled up in a busy street and nodded...
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Oxford: 'Once you are here, It does all it can to keep - you here'
Oxford and Wolverhampton represent opposite ends of the league tables. Claire Sanders and Tony Tysome visit them in search of common ground * Raymond Dwek is head of the biochemistry department at...
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Wolverhampton: 'IT is vocationally oriented and turns out people who can do something'
Oxford and Wolverhampton represent opposite ends of the league tables. Claire Sanders and Tony Tysome visit them in search of common ground * Edd Scott is happy that he chose Wolverhampton...
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Berlin centre builds Australia's European profile
Australia's research-intensive universities are to open a centre in Berlin to promote the exchange of staff and students with European institutions. It is the first time a small group of Australian...
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Poor and minorities head US dropouts
American university students are dropping out at higher and higher levels, and universities are doing too little to keep poor and non-white students in particular from failing to graduate, according...
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Academic wins a landmark ruling on copyright
Canadian universities that acquire copyright of online course material through contracts with individual professors are violating the collective bargaining rights of their faculty, according to a...
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New era sparks dispute
An international dispute has broken out over the first naming of a new geological period in more than a century. After eight years' deliberation, a decision by the International Commission on...
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Zanzibar's women at forefront of new era
Zanzibar, which for decades sent its students to the mainland 25 miles away or to the Soviet Union, finally has two universities, one private and one state-owned. An attempt to set up Zanzibar's...
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De Montfort course closes in MBA purge
South Africa's quality watchdog has ordered three overseas universities to drop MBA courses after a two-year probe that unconditionally endorsed only five of home-based courses. The Council on Higher...
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Student lender is hit by a billion yen hole
Japan's student loan foundation is chasing billions of yen in outstanding loans despite changing its status to an "autonomous administrative unit", rather than a public corporation, in April....
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We need degree change, not change in degrees
Overhauling classification of student achievement must occur across the sector, argue Louise Morley, Penny Burke and Vincent Carpentier Universities record and classify student achievement in many...