Students arriving at university for the first time can expect to become malnourished and suffer a general decline in their health and hygiene, according to experts, writes Cherry Canovan. They may...
Student rent is rocketing at a rate far higher than inflation, according a survey compiled by the National Union of Students. This increase often takes students by surprise, leaving them struggling...
This time last year, Damian Green, the Conservatives' new shadow education and skills secretary, wrote a paper titled "How to make friends and win elections". The article, written for the magazine of...
Next year, Robert Edwards hopes to attend a celebration to mark the birth of 1 million in vitro fertilisation babies. It will be a fitting tribute to the lifework of a pioneering scientist whose...
The expertise and enthusiasm of many part-time lecturers and postgraduate tutors are being wasted, according to lecturers' unions. A Natfhe-led report has found that part-timers, who make up as much...
Stem-cell pioneer Martin Evans, who has been awarded the prestigious Lasker award this week, says that he might not have succeeded in today's climate. Professor Evans, director of the school of...
The country will suffer if potential PhDs are not helped out of the red. Claire Sanders reports. Student debt is driving away PhD students in the arts, humanities and social sciences, according to a...
Bath University had a significant financial interest in the outcome of an investigation of scientific misconduct that it dismissed without hearing the complainant's evidence. The THES reported in...
Muslim students at universities in Australia are facing a surge in racist abuse following the terrorist attacks in America. Islamic communities have been attacked and mosques firebombed and smeared...
American universities are counting their losses, human and otherwise, from this month's terrorist attacks, and urging restraint in response to suggestions that visas for international students be...
German university rectors are speaking out against increased controls on foreign students despite revelations that at least three of the suspected hijackers in the recent terrorist attacks on the US...
Muslim students in the UK fear they will face racism and violence when they arrive for the new university term next week. Extremist groups believed to be recruiting students on British campuses to...
Last week's devastating attacks on the United States sparked some of the most active and passionate debate ever seen on the internet. The THES received some thoughtful messages and some angry ones....
Italy Ripples from the attacks on America are being felt across the entire academic world. THES reporters examine the atrocity's impact on university communities The new Italo-Arab University in...
Middle Eastern studies in Britain have been seriously underfunded and have suffered from ignorance and hostility, academics said this week. Gerd Nonneman, executive director of the British Society...