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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
A system of professional standards for academics will be meaningless and will discriminate against contract researchers Why do people keep hammering away at ideas and answers that are demonstrably...
Steve Jones recalls going from stealing Tory election leaflets in Edinburgh to facing armed police in a protest in Chicago While most students remember their first night at college, geneticist Steve...
With top-up fees about to make it onto the statute books, concerns about low pay forcing an exodus from Britain's universities, and research concentration leading to teaching-only universities, there...
Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, the well-connected former principal of the faculty of medicine at Imperial College London, is reported to be rising fast. Having turned down an approach for the...
Sir Keith O'Nions, the new director-general of the research councils, received a bruising in Private Eye this week, with employees of the Natural History Museum, where he is chairman of the board of...
Meanwhile, Lawrence Lessig, a law professor from Stanford University, flew in last week to give us Brits a lesson in innovation. Speaking at the Royal Geographical Society last week, Professor Lessig...