The United Arab Emirates' Higher Education Minister, His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, is pushing the Government for more money to finance the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCTs)....
The students at the all-female Zayed University, clad in black abayas , are discussing job opportunities. Those wanting to go into banking or teaching will have no problem, they reckon, but employers...
When the Higher Education Minister holds meetings with the business community, it is natural for work-based learning to be high on the agenda. But Bill Rammell's meeting in Sheffield this week was...
When is an academic not an academic? When he or she is having an identity crisis, according to some at the Higher Education Academy's conference this week. There are now so many different roles to...
Oxford alumni Mathew Humphrey and Marc Stears are a 'protected' species when it comes to animal rights protesters - a status they find problematic We have become "protected persons". As alumni of...
This is the World Cup when the tournament stopped being simply a festival of football and became the festival of the fan. No longer was it enough merely to watch the matches on TV with a few friends...
The Department for Education and Skills is, after all, on the lookout for a former vice-chancellor to replace Alan Wilson, who is standing down as director-general for higher education in September....
One syllable can make all the difference. To much amusement at the Higher Education Academy's conference this week, its chief executive, Paul Ramsden introduced Colin Campbell, Nottingham University'...
Confirmation that the election for the coveted post of general secretary of the University and College Union will not be held until February has been met with heavy hearts by some union officials....
Even degree ceremonies are being exploited by the rest of the UK to capitalise on England's sorrow at its team's World Cup defeat. Belfast-born TV presenter Eamon Holmes, who was this week awarded an...
The world cannot afford to tackle all its dire problems, so we are going to have to make some tough decisions, says Bjorn Lomborg Nobody wants to be the bad guy. Nobody wants to say that one...
One year on from 7/7 and the subsequent anti-terror laws, Simon Davies reveals a fresh assault on our civil liberties How about this for a blockbuster movie plot? A vast organisation that sits at the...
Militant lecturers' stubborn ignorance of the realities of university finance appals Susan Bassnett This academic year has ended somewhat unhappily. The strike action badly affected students,...
Your book is in their hands. They skim it, then snap it shut with grim finality. Where did you go wrong? To ensure a happy ending, you must captivate your audience with a strong beginning, says...
Name : Penny Smith (pseudonym Penny Sumner) Age: Middle! Job : Programme leader, MA in creative writing, Northumbria University. Salary : About £38,000. Education : BA in English from the University...