Goldsmiths, University of London, announced this week that it was responding to the changing student demographic by moving its freshers' week away from alcohol-centred student events. The Students...
UK students demonstrate "passive xenophobia" towards international students, threatening the UK's position in the global education market, according to new research. Interactions between home and...
Melanie Newman reports on the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool A minimum entry hurdle Melanie Newman reports on the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool A national minimum university...
The Conservatives were warned not to cut public funding to universities to pay for tax breaks. Speaking to The Times Higher ahead of a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference, Malcolm...
Shadow Secretary of State for Universities David Willetts attacked the quality of some higher education in the UK at the Conservative Party conference this week. Speaking at a Policy Exchange fringe...
The vice-chancellor of Cambridge University has called for funding for UK postgraduates to be improved as "a matter of urgency". In her annual address at the start of the new academic year, Alison...
King's College London is clear that its remarkable success in getting its PhD students to complete their doctorates in good time is down to two things: the quality of the students it accepts and the...
Asian and black students on full-time PhD programmes are 10 per cent less likely to complete their doctorates in ten years than white students, according to a separate report on overall entry and...
Cumbria University is to set up a campus in Workington, West Cumbria, thanks to a £10 million donation from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The authority has agreed to support the development...
A consortium of the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK and University College London has made it to the final round of bidding to secure a site behind the British...
Work on a new book depository for Oxford University's main research library, the Bodleian, is due to start imminently after the project was approved last week. The depository, at Osney Mead near the...
Colin Riordan took over as the vice-chancellor of Essex University on October 1. He replaced Sir Ivor Crewe, who has retired after 12 years. Professor Riordan was formerly pro vice-chancellor at...
In a news item last week ("Protests hamper animal test cuts"), we referred to the science minister as Malcolm Wicks. Mr Wicks was science minister from November 2006 to June 2007, when he was...
PROFILE : JOE WILSON COURSE LEADER, POPULAR MUSIC, GLOUCESTERSHIRE UNIVERSITY Leaving a party for pop star Janet Jackson in the US, Joe Wilson recalls sharing a lift with members of the hip-hop act...
Nicola Liscutin, a lecturer in Japanese studies, is in no doubt as to why the subject is one of the fastest growing in the UK: it is the lure of "cool Japan". Today's students have grown up on...