The Gulf states are in search of a university system that keeps pace with their prosperity and populations but does not destroy their Arab heritage, a Unesco conference in Oman heard last week. The...
Strikes and demonstrations by students and staff at universities specialising in arts and human sciences have highlighted their growing indignation at lack of resources. Last week, 1,300 students and...
Austrian education minister Elisabeth Gehrer has presented the final proposals for the planned introduction of tuition fees for all students from autumn. According to the plan, students from Austria...
An international network of universities is preparing a series of special online courses largely geared at the Asian market. A meeting of the ten members of the Global University Alliance in...
Tim Hutchings, online learning programme manager at the University of Glamorgan, reflects on the launch of Europe's largest online learning initiative, Enterprise College Wales. </a>
Italy is launching a project for teaching art restoration and conservation through the internet. VIRartis (Virtual Art Restoration Training and Information School) will offer courses aimed at...
Researchers at the University of Teesside who are studying age discrimination warn that companies should employ older workers now to safeguard their future. Catherine McCauley-Smith, who is managing...
Higher education should embrace the "constructive possibilities and achievable development" offered in the middle ground of the knowledge economy, according to Sir David Watson, director of Brighton...
Heriot-Watt University is rolling out its e-learning Scholar system to an international audience. It believes the move could boost overseas student recruitment to the United Kingdom. This is the...
User-centric forum Paul Priestman, founding partner in the award-winning design agency Priestman Goode, will give the keynote speech "What can digital media design learn from physical design?" at the...
Wendy Alexander, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong lifelong learning, had firsthand experience of the University of Abertay, 'Big Brother' technology, which it is hoped will boost...
Higher education wastes money on quality assessments that could be better spent, argues Roderick Floud. Fees for 250,000 students; the cost of five universities; the pay of 10,000 lecturers: each...
Beggars cannot be choosers. The General Agreement on Trade in Services-oriented ventures necessarily adopt the spirit of the neo-liberalist ideology that has set them up: a maximum of profit in a...
The quality debate is hollow. We need a renewed understanding of education, argues Duke Maskell. Whenever the word "standards" crops up in connection with education, it is time to reach for the off...
The Weakest Link not brutal enough for you? Imagine it crossed with the RAE, as Robin Flowerdew did. Question Mistress (QM): Welcome to ... The Weakest Link ! Our contestants must work together to...