As the European Union's flagship Erasmus student exchange programme approaches its 20th birthday, Jan Figel, the EU Education Commissioner, has criticised it for failing poor students. Mr Figel said...
Applications to open 11 private colleges in Israel have been shelved while objections from public universites are considered by the Council for Higher Education. Yehezkel Teller, deputy chairman of...
(Photograph) - A new baby: medical students in South Korea practise delivering a child with the aid of a robot in an obstetrician class at Seoul's KyungHee University. The country's population is...
Art school suffers conflict and poor conditions, reports Paul Bompard Rome's Academy of Fine Arts, which was founded in the 16th century and is alma mater of some of Italy's most illustrious artists...
Canada has no clear national picture of its higher education system and trails other countries in its ability to set standards, according to a new study of the country's post-secondary sector. The...
A new type of mass communication. A fixation with celebrities, gossip, opinion and scandal. Stories of miraculous births and prophecies. It may sound like modern-day mass media, writes Jon Marcus,...
Fewer Germans are enrolling in higher education after graduating from high school, the latest statistics show. Experts fear that Germany could face a shortage of qualified university graduates if the...
Minister approves proposals to make science a much more female and family-friendly career. Jane Marshall reports A committee set up to attract more women to careers in science has proposed that...
Most universities are like shops, borrowing the imprimatur of elite labels to sell copies of the real thing, says Mary Evans Academics are seldom accused of sartorial elegance. So it is ironic that...
Life, they say, is in the details. In the small things. This could be because it is true or because the English are not capable of thinking big. No, that's unfair. They are capable of thinking big....
The second in a series of three articles in which the candidates vying to lead the University and College Union explain what distinguishes them from their rivals My son went to a "posh" university....
The Open University offers just the thing to help brains befuddled by Christmas overindulgence get back into gear for the start of the new term. KitchenKonundrum is a game where players race against...
Leicester University is to create a "zoo" on campus to try to help staff understand and use more technology in their teaching. The university hopes that displaying a collection of technological...
Competition is hotting up in the small world of creative writing courses. No sooner had Brunel University bagged acclaimed author Fay Weldon and no small amount of publicity for its course, than City...
Peep is no stranger to bizarre publicity requests, but this week saw one of the oddest. A press release arrived at The Times Higher for a Winterhalter high-volume dishwasher that promises cleaner...