OECD: High intakes, short courses are key
David Jobbins looks at the UK's rise to the top of the OECD degree league. A clear correlation between the successful expansion of higher education and the length of degree emerges from the OECD data...
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OECD: Degree dividends biggest in Britain
David Jobbins looks at the UK's rise to the top of the OECD degree league Getting a degree pays dividends for UK graduates, even when tuition fee repayments and higher tax liabilities are taken into...
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Unesco mellows market drive
Unesco has launched a worldwide forum to ensure that international higher education standards will be upheld and not fall victim to growing commercialisation. It sees the initiative as a complement,...
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Survey reports on class of 2000
Most Italian students live at home, Finland has the oldest students and Germany the lowest proportion of female students, according to a report on the social and economic conditions of students in...
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Germans choose English to teach Cairo's well-off
The German University in Cairo (GUC) is scheduled to open next year - with English as its main language of instruction. The project received more than €600,000 (£378,000) from the German Academic...
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University-owned radio station gets rap on knuckles
Radio stations in Belarusia have been told to concentrate on entertainment rather than on news after a station partly owned by the state university wrongly reported that the government had banned the...
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Ugandans hit by loans scheme collapse
About 1,000 students in Uganda will be unable to study at university this year because the ministry of education has failed to launch an effective loans scheme, according to a government consultant....
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Tuition costs rocket in US
Tuition fees at public universities in the US rose this year by nearly 10 per cent - the highest rate in a decade and nearly seven times the inflation rate - as state governments cut taxpayer support...
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McGill contests expulsion appeal
McGill University medical school this week sought to defend itself against allegations that it unfairly expelled a student - only the second expulsion from the Canadian medical school in a decade....
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Israelis fight cut to book supply
Israeli universities are challenging the refusal of a UK academic publisher to supply books, a move they view as an escalation of the academic boycott. Manchester-based St Jerome Publishing said the...
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British Council offers prizes for students' top 'letter home'
International students are to be invited to describe their achievements and experiences in UK universities, colleges and schools for a chance to win awards worth thousands of pounds. The...
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Unions fear Gats impact
Union leaders have warned that including universities in the General Agreement on Trade in Services could lead to the "McDonaldisation of higher education". Member countries of the World Trade...
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NZ v-cs retreat in fees battle
New Zealand's eight universities have reluctantly accepted a deal to keep tuition fees at current levels in return for a 4.5 per cent funding increase next year. Universities had refused to accept...
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In the news: Team Bath
It has been more than a century since a university fielded a side in the FA Cup. This week, the University of Bath team won its fourth-round qualifier to go through to the first round proper of the...
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Don's diary: watch out for fish bones
Fortnight one Would I like to come and dig up a specimen of the world's largest fish just outside Peterborough? I nearly bite the hands off my colleagues from Portsmouth and Glasgow universities when...