Danes cash-starved
Danish higher education and university research are under-financed compared with the US, Sweden and Switzerland, the Danish Rectors' Conference says in a report about the country's 11 universities....
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Corporate US ills put squeeze on business graduate jobs
Wall Street's implosion, the spectacular lapses of corporate government and accounting scandals are taking their toll on the top US business schools. After the widespread job shakeouts that...
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Don's diary: law in another land
January Cape Town is only a night's sleep away. We are beginning a new globalised life - spending January to June at the University of Cape Town and July to December at Queen Mary, University of...
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Ditch the departments, put the people together
Universities must drop ancient divisions and take an interdisciplinary approach, argues Michael Gazzaniga One hundred-year-old academic disciplines and their entrenched bureaucracies are inhibiting...
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Leeds hosts Viking revival
The Vikings are back. Historians have charted the rise of a sub-culture of highly politicised and often violent men who have adopted the Dark Age Scandinavian raider as their role model. At the...
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Cambridge donor in fraud case
An American tycoon charged with evading more than $1 million (£650,000) in New York sales tax and tampering with evidence gave more than three times that amount to Cambridge University for a...
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Israeli sackings prompt inquiry
The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology has begun an internal inquiry into the actions of one of its academics after she dismissed two Israeli academics from the board of two...
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Update: 12:30
Straw son: student support policy is a shambles Foreign secretary Jack Straw's son today attacked the government's policy on higher education as a "complete shambles". Will Straw, who is president of...
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Today's news
Higher fees planned for ‘prestige’ degrees Plans for students to pay higher tuition fees for degrees at more prestigious universities are being drawn up by the government. (Times) Youngest siblings...
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'Lower the grade for science pupils'
Universities should lower A-level admissions standards for students wishing to study science, Ian Gibson, chairman of the science and technology committee, said this week. Dr Gibson said that...
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V-cs seek openness in talks on free trade
Europe's vice-chancellors are seeking more openness in negotiations to create a global market in higher education under the General Agreement on Trade and Services, after learning by chance that the...
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Student debt rise slows
The average student debt has risen by 4 per cent to £6,228, figures from Barclays reveal. The bank said its annual survey of more than 1,400 students recorded the lowest increase since the survey...
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Treasury's review to raise scientists' pay
An anticipated £1.5 billion boost for science in this Monday's Treasury spending review is expected to provide significantly more money for researchers' salaries and PhD stipends. But there is still...
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Whistleblowers: Exeter rebuked over ill-treated PhD student
The Lord Chancellor has rebuked the University of Exeter for a series of serious failings in its treatment of a PhD student. In ruling on a postgraduate's complaint on behalf of the Queen, who is...
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Analysis: Snip fees for lower degrees?
The introduction of top-up fees would be a gamble but would it pay off? Claire Sanders looks at models for differential fees. A decision to introduce top-up fees in the next parliament would be a...