Dissertations that are openly published on university websites are being sold to students to pass off as their work, an investigation by The Times Higher has found, writes Phil Baty. In yet another...
"Nothing in university life can scare me," Chris Jenks says candidly. He is not making a bullish boast but rather pointing out that the experiences he has encountered while indulging in his 30-year...
A movement gathering steam in the US aims to slow the growth of federal aid for students' tuition fees and to force universities to cut costs. The logic among the economists pushing the idea is that...
Italy's highest academic panel, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, has voted heavily in favour of research using stem cells from previously frozen embryos. The vote, by 58 to eight, with 14...
A national commission to guide the long-term reconstruction of Iraq's shattered higher education system, proposed this week by the United Nations University, may lead to the closure of institutions...
A decision by the Colombian Government to introduce competitive funding for the country's 33 state universities triggered demonstrations earlier this month. In Bogotá, more than 9,000 students...
Thai university students face increased fees as the Government's focus on free schools means there is little cash left for tertiary expansion. About 22 per cent of the national budget is spent on...
The University of Botswana political scientist who was declared a prohibited immigrant in February after co-authoring a paper critical of his adopted country's democracy has yet to be deported and is...
The presidents of Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities this week immediately began planning personal appeals to British lecturers to work against the Association of University Teachers' boycott of Israeli...
Moscow's Higher School of Economics is cracking down on plagiarism with a code of conduct that allows it to expel students caught copying.
Nigeria's Urban Development Bank has secured a $100 million (£52.4 million) loan to build private hostel accommodation at 25 federal universities in an attempt to end a housing crisis facing some 70...
Norman Mailer, the Pulitzer prize-winning author, has sold his archive of manuscripts and books to the University of Texas for $2.5 million (£1.3 million).
Scholars at Risk, a US-based network of universities, is to investigate creating an index for academic freedom that may rank countries according to the threats and restrictions their academics face....
Institutions have a legal duty to promote racial equality, which makes monitoring essential. Joyce Hill offers some advice There has always been a strong sense that our universities and colleges are...
Bring back the personal touch. Courses are all very well, but they can't replace 'apprenticeship' with a senior colleague We seem to be inundated with new courses; courses for PhD students seem de...