For the past year, Alan Partridge has been working with a consortium of employers to set up a foundation degree in metallurgy in partnership with Sheffield Hallam University. The aim is to launch the...
The most significant growth in employer-led higher education is expected to come from the public sector, notably government investment in children's services and from police training. Sean Mackney,...
In a radical break with its 150-year-old traditions, the University of Melbourne is to be the first in Australia to adopt the model set out in the Bologna Declaration. Instead of the focus on...
Universities fight charges that the learning they provide is poor and too costly, says Jon Marcus US universities and colleges expect that a government report this month will criticise the price and...
The Times Higher looks at how demographic change could affect universities Stiff competition for university places in Russia has lessened as the number of school-leavers has declined over the past...
The nation with Europe's lowest birth rate is relaxed about the possibility of a dwindling student population. The total number of students in Italy grew steadily in the 1980s and 1990s. It crept up...
A projected fall in population for a number of European Union countries by 2050 has given rise to widespread concern across the EU about the consequences for higher education. According to Eurostat,...
Spanish universities are likely to experience falling student demand over the next ten years, but most are only now beginning to react despite evidence dating back at least six years. Demand for...
Corruption in academe becomes commonplace when staff are not paid a living wage, argues Philip Altbach The Egyptian Gazette was stark in its condemnation. "University professors in Egypt have been...
Too often in bookshops and literary review pages, historical fiction is cordoned off from history, like a shabby room in an otherwise grand house. The underlying assumption - or prejudice - is that...
Fearing the immigrant Three weeks ago, the British National Party held its annual two-day Red White & Blue Festival in Sawley, Lancashire. This may sound frightening to most people, who...
Peep was tickled by the University of the Arts's new logo, sorry "visual identity". The title of the university has been designed in the shape of a rocket. Shooting out of it are six stars...
Dons at Oxford University were raising their eyebrows this week after hearing that an Australian vice-chancellor was supposedly coming to the university's "rescue". Academics learnt from a report in...
A Canadian university has launched a controversial student recruitment drive with posters and a website mocking US President George W. Bush. Lakehead University in northern Ontario has produced...
Mathematicians must accept that computers, not humans, will be the only ones able to check ever more proofs, says Brian Davies Two years ago, the editors of the world's most prestigious pure...