"Nowadays, everything can be settled using money." With these nonchalant words, Zhang, a Chinese sixth-form student taking his A levels in Oxford, explained how simple it is to fix a place at...
A dearth of university places in China means that 1.3 million of the country's school-leavers are denied a university place, so demand for places in the world-renowned British system is on the...
Leader of the revolution and all that jazz A love of music was listed by a fifth of the country's university heads in a survey of vice-chancellors' backgrounds last month by The Times Higher . Few,...
The UK's leading music colleges want to debunk the myth that they are the preserve of students from privileged backgrounds. This is one of the priorities of the new Conservatoires UK group, which...
The BBC has signed two major agreements with universities in the Midlands. The corporation will for the first time provide joint training for students as part of a new media production course at De...
Edinburgh will have a new university by 2006, according to the principal of the city's Queen Margaret University College, Tony Cohen. There has been past speculation that QMUC might seek university...
Bristol University this week became the latest institution to launch a bid to join the global super league, when it unveiled plans to invest more than Pounds 250 million in new research facilities...
Heavyweight opposition from the heads of three science departments has prompted Cambridge University to rethink pay reforms that would offer better salaries for senior dons at the expense of junior...
South Africa is facing a growing graduate unemployment problem, according to a University of Cape Town study that shows joblessness among people with tertiary education soared from 6 per cent to 15...
A survey of Norwegian student finances has revealed that 40 per cent "rarely or never" think about how much they owe. Interviews with students at Oslo and Tromso universities, Stavanger University...
A winter of discontent is looming for Russia's million-plus state university students as activists begin to mobilise against plans by President Vladimir Putin to scrap long-established benefits and...
Polish higher education needs further reform to ensure its graduates' skills can be exploited in an increasingly Westernised and post-industrial country, according to the World Bank and the European...
A dozen Italian universities have joined forces to study and analyse the Mafia and other criminal organisations such as the Camorra and 'Ndrangheta. The programme, also covering new crime syndicates...
While investment in education is increasing worldwide, Australia's deans of education say that expenditure there is declining. In America, federal spending on education doubled in the eight years to...
Higher education ministers from West Africa's Francophone countries are pressing for a dramatic increase in tuition and other fees at universities across the region to offset dwindling state funding...