We have asked six higher education institutions for recovery plans because of the scale of holdback and consequent moderation funding that applies to them for the 2001-02 funding round. It would be...
A recent letter I received from a Scottish university can perhaps help explain the attitude of university administrators towards PhD external examiners. In the letter, a university official writes: "...
Now that the prime minister is to delay the general election beyond May 3, there is an opportunity to put our stamp on campaigning. Students and teaching staff are central to the political...
From the leading lights of British higher education, there is talk of ambitious change throughout the sector. Mergers, e-universities, foundation degrees, new approaches to credit accumulation and...
British universities have been accused for years of failing to prepare students adequately for work. The plethora of statistics released this week suggests that this accusation was false. Yet in its...
In the third of our series on intellectual property issues, Danny Quah tells Alison Goddard how the profit motive can drive innovation. Hard-nosed commercialism is no bad thing in universities, says...
Five years in a gulag camp gave Roman Brackman a reason to find out what motivated Russia's ruthless dictator to ruin so many lives I have spent many years searching for the "real" Stalin - for the...
What led to protesters attacking Starbucks and setting light to cars? A loss of faith in democracy, says Noreena Hertz. Mandy Garner reports. Noreena Hertz has always been precocious. At three years...
Globalisation has much to offer our society, argues Grazia Ietto-Gillies, but it requires responsible governance if we are to reverse the trends of third-world exploitation and environmental damage...
Poor pay threatens UK science PhD stipends at £9,000 are far too low, while pay and conditions for postdoctoral scientists are so bad they threaten the United Kingdom’s science base, according to a...
Medical schools branded exclusive Ontario's medical schools have been labelled ghettos for the rich after a survey at the University of Western Ontario showed that the family incomes of students&...
Financial Times Myriad Genetics, Oracle and Hitachi have formed an alliance to map all the proteins in the human body in less than three years - a task that was expected to take decades. Researchers...
Chilean ministry accused of funding bungle Accusations that the education ministry is mishandling the allocation of funding to private universities were denied by the Chilean government...
Luton graduates are more employable Luton University produces more employable graduates than the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, according to employment indicators published today. Every home-...
The Guardian Most students find work quickly after leaving university regardless of where they study, but black and Asian graduates still face discrimination from employers, according to an official...