Westminster University risked the standard of its degrees when it failed to keep proper checks on the suitability of students accepted on to courses run in partnership with other institutions,...
Edinburgh University vets have been offering free health checks to tortoises to ensure they are fit for the big sleep this winter. Edinburgh is the only UK vet school with an exotic animals service....
Ministers asked to revise funding eligibility criteria, says Jessica Shepherd Vice-chancellors this week called on the Government to give financial help to more part-time students. They will tell MPs...
Removing the cap on tuition fees could lead to an exponential rise in fees without any corresponding improvement in the teaching of students, a vice-chancellor warned this week. Drawing on the US...
The English-speaking world produces most of the leading global players in the arts and humanities, according to academics in the field. All but two of the top 20 universities in the world for arts...
Botswana's second university - due to open next year - will not be finished until 2009 at the earliest, the Ministry of Education has confirmed. The university is due to be built at Palapye, 260km...
Supreme Court rules in favour of student in row over arbitrary suspension by York, reports Philip Fine. Canadian university heads may be held accountable for their actions as elected officials after...
Monash University has decided against following the example of its rival the University of Melbourne, which is shifting its focus to postgraduate courses, writes Geoff Maslen in Melbourne. Instead,...
Israeli universities' threat not to open for the new academic year has forced the Government to backtrack over budget cuts. But the fate of the second semester hangs in the balance with the...
Jon Marcus reports on record-breaking Ivy League fundraising campaigns. Alumni of top US universities are being asked for billions of dollars in collective donations for new research facilities and...
French taxpayers are forking out millions in rent for temporary premises because the Government is dragging its feet over the renovation of France's leading scientific and medical university,...
Italian architects are apprehensive about the arrival of a new generation of graduates who have completed a three-year university course instead of the five years' training required to practise. The...
What shall it profit us if university values are allowed to wither? Ian McNay issues a warning for higher education. It was in the midst of another war more than 60 years ago that the Cambridge don F...
There was outrage in some quarters last week when it was suggested that academics should spy on their Islamic students. I can't see what all the fuss is about. It would make a nice change to monitor...
FAIRGROUND: THRILL LABORATORY. Dana Centre, Science Museum, final night Wednesday, November 31, from 5.30pm, featuring the Booster and academic speakers, tickets £10 Here's the challenge. Have...