Doing the honours
My reputation for "impeccable manners" (In the News, THES , August 15) might be threatened if I did not point out that it was my wife, not I, who obtained a masters degree at York. Anthony McClaran...
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Laurie Taylor column
Dear Maureen Sorry to be so elusive but it's difficult to pick up messages in the Pyrenees where I'm having a brief respite after a hectic fortnight at the Toulouse conference on Comparative...
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Leader: Common ground for engagement
The Commonwealth appears an anachronism to many people, part of the outmoded paraphernalia of postcolonialism, more redolent of the middle of the last century than the new millennium. When it does...
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Leader: Words to tax ministers
When is a top-up fee an individualised graduate tax? Answer: never, according to the Department for Education and Skills. Ministers will continue to refer to variable fees, and this autumn's...
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Alan Ryan
By 'dumbing up' in education, more people are studying for longer, but the end result is conformity and lack of imagination in the system. The annual recriminations over A-level standards invite an...
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Today's news
More women given university places than men 21,000 more women than men have been accepted for university degree courses that start this year, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions...
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Latest research news
Nasa launches Universe probe A $2 billion (£1. billion) space observatory that can study the early history of the universe has been launched by the US space agency, Nasa. The Space Infrared Telescope...
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Today's news
High-tech Oxford gaining on its old rival Oxford University, which has lagged behind Cambridge as a centre for high-tech business, is closing the gap according to Lord Sainsbury, the science minister...
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Today's news
Ministers set for new push over tuition fees Ministers are preparing to relaunch their controversial student top-up fees policy this autumn, after privately admitting that they have failed to...
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Losers could regain grants
Medical schools that take the less qualified to widen access will reap rewards. Medical schools, which lost out significantly when teaching funding was shifted to those universities taking in poorer...
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NE focus on locals pays off
Susan Boden is determined to become a "different kind of doctor". She left school with virtually no qualifications after regularly playing truant, but returned to college at 17, when her daughter was...
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Newcastle spin-off worms its way into US market
British worms are wriggling their way across the Atlantic to plug a gap in the supply for fishermen and fill the coffers of a University of Newcastle spin-off company, writes Esther Ingram. Seabait...
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Speaking their language
Alison Utley listens in at Leeds in the latest in our series on university cities. When schoolteachers approached the University of Leeds last year to ask whether any linguists would be willing to...
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Cheating inquiry reopens
New South Wales' Independent Commission against Corruption is investigating an allegation by a lecturer that the University of Newcastle, near Sydney, covered up plagiarism among students based in...
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Canadian fees soar as chiefs feel pinch
The cost of a Canadian undergraduate degree continues to soar. Students starting this autumn will pay an average of C$4,025 (£1,800) in tuition fees, up 7.4 per cent from the C$3,749 the year before...