Ontario is the most recent province to make public its highest university salaries. Public institutions were given until March 31 to disclose the salaries and taxable benefits of employees earning...
Vice chancellors have begun warring with each other over moves to create an elite group of research-based institutions. The so-called Group of Eight is accused of trying to insulate member...
Malaysia has promised students who study in local universities priority in the queue for scholarships and study loans. The move will hit intakes in Britain and other countries which enrol large...
The biggest academic union in the United States is moving towards acceptance of reviews of tenure, under attack in nearly half of the country's 50 states. The 45,000-member American Association of...
Lebanon's bitter civil war stirred up more than hatred. It stirred up the poorly planned streets and buildings of modern Beirut and uncovered an archaeological treasure trove throughout the country....
A group of Italian academics and enthusiasts are planning to reconstruct a 230-foot ship from the 1st century ad reign of the Roman emperor, Caligula. It will be the largest ancient ship to be...
Lack of international research cooperation is hampering the fight against global threats, such as those to the environment and nutrition, Unesco warns in its second World Science Report published...
Seventy-one per cent of adults believe that learning can lead to a better quality of life. But 63 per cent admit that they are unlikely to take part in a course of any sort over the next 12 months....
Wales has the supreme good fortune to be far away from Whitehall. It has been possible for the universities, colleges and funding councils there to work away quietly at devising a system for post-...
The Pope - No News". Inscribed on evening paper placards by an ingenious publicity manager, that slogan did wonders for sales of the old Star among London catholics on a day when there genuinely was...
You may as well call your local chippie a restaurant as grace Italian universities with the title of university, protests Richard Davies Italian universities have no business participating in...
Aisling Irwin's article (THES, April 12) gave the misleading impression that the talks hosted by Qinetics International were set up to counteract the Tucson "Towards the Science of Consciousness"...
The envious may see those with degrees getting better seats in the job market 'house' at their expense, but investment in higher education has benefits for the country's economic prospects too,...
May I appeal for clarity over the term "efficiency"? In one short article (THES, April 19) we have "efficiency gains", "efficiency squeezes" and "efficiency cuts". These terms appear to be used...
The suitability of "profit-related pay" to higher education is extremely dubious. What effect would the notion of "profit" have on activities such as counselling students, collaboration between...