Overseas students are employing professional translators to help them write essays and dissertations because their English is so poor, The Times Higher has learnt. The problem came to light this week...
An unprecedented review of research into women in higher education in the developing world has revealed massive discrimination, including widespread sexual violence and harassment. Louise Morley,...
20 Royal Engineers have become the first serving British Army soldiers to graduate with foundation degrees. The troops, members of 42 Regiment, are all geographic technicians and did foundation...
The Government would have to rely on the Speaker's casting vote to get their university reforms onto the statute book if MPs could vote again on the Higher Education Act. A poll of backbenchers by...
Tony Blair will win the 2005 general election with a majority of 70 to 100 MPs, according to three separate academic forecasts of the likely result on polling day, writes Paul Hill. The forecasts,...
Welsh universities could save at least £500,000 a year just by switching off lights in unoccupied rooms and adopting other energy saving measures. A report from the National Audit Office says that...
Italy's scientific community is furious over a Vatican campaign to undermine a referendum to repeal restrictive legislation on stem-cell research and artificial insemination. Late this year, Italians...
French researchers have written to Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin demanding negotiations on long-term budgetary and employment planning for research that they claim should be central to proposed...
Belarus, under pro-Russian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, remains the only European nation where the official attitude to the Bologna Process of convergence between university systems ranges from...
Russian Education Minister Andrei Fursenko was heckled and pelted with raw eggs as he announced plans for a three-tier university system topped by 20 elite institutions. He announced the location of...
The Australian Government plans to encourage foreign universities to open alongside the nation's state universities by allowing home students who enrol to take out government loans. Brendan Nelson,...
The Royal University of Bhutan got the go-ahead to admit international students and to accept gifts and endowments to finance its work at a traditional ceremony attended by ministers and academics,...
China's town and city dwellers are significantly better educated than the rural population, according to a working group for the country's tenth Five Year Plan for national education. The group's...
South African President Thabo Mbeki has criticised student protesters who have severely disrupted universities since the academic year started in February. Several demonstrations have turned violent...
Immigration Minister Des Browne argues that a 'robust and fair' system requires a 'realistic' level of fee As Immigration Minister, I am well aware of the opportunities of globalisation. Some...