A furious row has erupted between the "Godzilla" and "King Kong" of Renaissance literature. Stephen Greenblatt, professor of humanities at Harvard University, has hit out at a devastating review of...
Two universities look set to collaborate on Britain's first private medical school with a mission to improve selection processes and develop a better breed of junior doctor, The Times Higher can...
Have you got what it takes to win one of these two Times Higher Awards? Encouraging ethnic-minority women back into education is one of the projects overseen by the access and widening participation...
Have you got what it takes to win one of these two Times Higher Awards? Three expert judges are waiting for nominations for the Most Imaginative Use of Distance Learning award. And they will depend...
The inaugural Times Higher awards were launched at London's National Portrait Gallery on February 25. To see a full list of awards and to enter, go to www.timeshigherawards.co.uk or contact...
The fifth and last of the faculty-specific analyses - biomedicine - that make up The Times Higher World University Rankings agrees with our overall finding (November 5, 2004) that Harvard is the...
Stockholm's Karolinska Institute was founded in 1810 to train army surgeons working among wounded soldiers. The institute is Sweden's largest centre for medical training and research. It accounts for...
Whether they are shocked, horrified or disgusted, cinema audiences do not simply "watch" films, they "feel" them, according to research. A study by academics at Stirling and Napier universities has...
Universities in Wales would charge Welsh students £1,000 a year less in top-up fees than they charge those from outside the principality under one of six options presented to the Assembly today....
Two of Australia's biggest research-intensive universities and former rivals have signed a partnership agreement to attract more researchers and overseas students. The Australian National University...
South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, has called on African universities to raise their voices on the continental stage to assist development and respond to unprecedented support from developed...
The key role of Europe's universities in boosting research spending and quality must not be overlooked when implementing the European Union's Lisbon competitiveness strategy, EU education...
Four lecturers at Belarusian State University have been fired for pro-democracy activities. They were among the 80-plus signatories of an "appeal to the Belarusian nation" that established a pro-...
An anti-corruption drive launched by a central Russian university aims to halt bribe-taking by its lecturers with the help of student informers. Togliatti State University has set up a secure email...
As democracy flickers into life in Iraq, international aid for the country's stricken university system is finally beginning to flow. But the security issues that have been the principal barrier to...