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In the run-up to the election Huw Richards analyses the higher education Conventional political wisdom holds that there are few votes to be won in higher education, but a fair number to be lost. And...
In the run-up to the election Huw Richards analyses the higher education Conventional political wisdom holds that there are few votes to be won in higher education, but a fair number to be lost. And...
Some of Europe's brightest students gathered in Brussels last week - and asked for more. More information about the European Commission's education and training programmes; more effort to target such...
PART-TIME work and borrowing have made students better off but the most vulnerable continue to face serious financial disincentives to higher education, according to a new survey. While the average...
The PhD productivity of graduate school professors should be made a matter of public record in the light of the huge variation in the number of students faculty members guide towards their doctorates...
Spanish universities are struggling to broaden their curricula. Rebecca Warden reports from Valencia where the country's rectors drew up their rescue plan and where staff and students at the city's...
Universities are producing about 25 per cent more PhDs in science and engineering than the United States economy needs, according to a study by the Rand Corporation and the Institute for Higher...
As term starts a whole crop of new academics is facing its first students, The THES asks what support and training they get. Lecturers starting their first jobs this autumn face an unprecedented...
Spanish universities are struggling to broaden their curricula. Rebecca Warden reports from Valencia where the country's rectors drew up their rescue plan and where staff and students at the city's...
Romania's struggle since the winter 1989 overthrow of Ceausescu to loosen the state's grip on society has finally turned to higher education. Here an ambitious and far-reaching reform programme is...
Assessors from the Royal Institute of British Architects will step into the nerve centre of a new Pounds 2 million teaching complex at Luton University next July to assess the final year's work of a...
Consumers, customers, stakeholders. Whatever word is used - and they are all pretty unattractive to the providers of higher education - power is moving their way. Now that a third of the population...
The not-so-new vocational qualifications are here to stay. That is the message of The THES survey on perceptions of NVQs and GNVQs in further and higher education institutions. FE colleges are...
British historians are churning out books and articles 'with all the frenzied energy of battery chickens on overtime'. But no one is reading them. David Cannadine describes a profession driven to...
January It wasn't a happy new year for those academics in departments rated one and two in the research assessment exercise. They said goodbye to their research hopes as those in departments rated 5...
The results of the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2014 were released on Wednesday March 5 2014, and showed that universities from just two countries, the US and the UK, make up the...