Revolutionary road to higher standards in Ukraine
Nation’s universities to face QAA-style scrutiny under new regime
Nation’s universities to face QAA-style scrutiny under new regime
Australia is to remove all caps on tuition fees, a move billed as allowing its universities to compete with “the best in the world”.
As costs soar for students Down Under, England should be even more wary of following the country’s lead, says Rachel Wenstone
Sheffield film to draw on late academic’s first-hand account of occupied Paris. Matthew Reisz reports
Madeleine Blaess’ journal gets screen treatment
The stealthy rise of private pre-degree courses
Financial adroitness and efficient resource management has, in cash-flow terms, allowed Swansea Metropolitan University to sprint ahead of the pack. Could its fiscal success offer insights to the...
Could a Welsh institution’s success offer insights to help stragglers catch up?
Dozens of further education colleges will offer degrees for less than £6,000 a year from 2012-13, while from the following year private providers may be able to charge £9,000 backed by state funding...
Malcolm Gillies asks: how much time off do we really need or deserve?
Hefce says that record levels of spare cash prepare the academy for the new fees regime, but as new policies for allocating student places bed in, we might need to reassess its future financial...
The University of Wales was brought down by validation, its money-making machine. David Matthews asks how that happened, how others might be stopped from putting cash before quality and whether the...
The number of Indian students taking university courses in the UK rose by almost a third in the past academic year, official statistics show.More than 34,000 students from India studied at British...
Robust, transparent and sophisticated Phil Baty explains how in-depth consultation with the global academic community has produced the most exact and relevant world rankings yet devised It is, of...
<div class='\"header\"'><h2>Robust, transparent and sophisticated</h2><p class='\"strong\"'><strong>Phil Baty explains how in-depth consultation with the global academic...