A Romanian renaissance
Romania's struggle since the winter 1989 overthrow of Ceausescu to loosen the state's grip on society has finally turned to higher education. Here an ambitious and far-reaching reform programme is...
Romania's struggle since the winter 1989 overthrow of Ceausescu to loosen the state's grip on society has finally turned to higher education. Here an ambitious and far-reaching reform programme is...
Spanish universities are struggling to broaden their curricula. Rebecca Warden reports from Valencia where the country's rectors drew up their rescue plan and where staff and students at the city's...
Assessors from the Royal Institute of British Architects will step into the nerve centre of a new Pounds 2 million teaching complex at Luton University next July to assess the final year's work of a...
Consumers, customers, stakeholders. Whatever word is used - and they are all pretty unattractive to the providers of higher education - power is moving their way. Now that a third of the population...
The not-so-new vocational qualifications are here to stay. That is the message of The THES survey on perceptions of NVQs and GNVQs in further and higher education institutions. FE colleges are...
British historians are churning out books and articles 'with all the frenzied energy of battery chickens on overtime'. But no one is reading them. David Cannadine describes a profession driven to...
January It wasn't a happy new year for those academics in departments rated one and two in the research assessment exercise. They said goodbye to their research hopes as those in departments rated 5...
The results of the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2014 were released on Wednesday March 5 2014, and showed that universities from just two countries, the US and the UK, make up the...
Part SEVEN: the story so far ... In his phone call to registrar Dennis Strood, Henry tells him to leave his office door unlocked over the weekend. On the way to the break-in, he tells Toni that...
6 October 2012 Rankings both shape and reflect university standings, and in a sector where institutions continue to shy away from true distinctiveness and focus, they will act as invaluable proxies...
Rankings both shape and reflect university standings, and in a sector where institutions continue to shy away from true distinctiveness and focus, they will act as invaluable proxies in the long term...
At the apex of the reputation rankings are six US and UK universities that have become household names. But esteem cannot be faked, and what goes up can come down. Phil Baty reports For a chosen few...