The government was accused of allowing the British Academy to be "both judge and jury" over its accountability for millions of pounds of public money this week, as ministers decided to take no action...
Learning passports and a new airport will help Doncaster launch its plans for a university, says Claire Sanders. Anyone who doubts the value of a university to its local area should visit Doncaster....
Home-based students suffer socially but not academically, writes Alison Utley. Stay-at-home students make fewer friends than those who go away to study and miss out on important elements of...
Trinidad and Tobago, the second largest component of the University of the West Indies, has decided to launch its own university because its government thinks the islands do not receive enough higher...
Belarusian students returning to university this year are facing compulsory courses on the "fundamentals of state ideology". Although the government has said that "Soviet-style brainwashing" is not...
Malaysia is to create a framework for ranking all tertiary-level qualifications. The government hoped that pegging different qualifications against each other would give employers and professional...
A change to South Africa's school system that adds a formalised period of further education after nine years of schooling will have a significant impact on higher education, say universities and...
Staff at Australia's principal research organisation fear that the nation's universities want it broken up so they can sift through the pieces and take the best sections for themselves. The 80-year-...
Waikato University vice-chancellor Bryan Gould has warned that the way New Zealand's universities are to be funded will favour a few at the expense of the rest. New Zealand risks sacrificing a world-...
The phoney war is over. This week, the real battle over top-up fees - and with them the future shape of higher education - began in earnest. Higher education minister Alan Johnson was predictably...
Universities must reclaim their role as instillers of values as well as imparters of knowledge, argues Alan Gilbert Something must be done to make human life on earth more equitable. Being an agent...
If Tony Blair had spent more time listening to the advice of reasonable people, he might not have been so quick to involve the UK in an illegal invasion of Iraq. I am pretty awful at chess - a...
Most vice-chancellors managed to make it to Warwick this week for the annual Universities UK conference, even without the private railway carriage that was promised last year. One evening, three...
A competition to find the most inviting, unappealing, complex or bizarre conference title was launched this week by Rob Davidson, a senior lecturer in business travel and tourism at Westminster...
Administrative staff celebrated after receiving notice of a rebate from the Quality Assurance Agency this week. The agency wrote to all institution heads saying it had collected too much money from...