A fivefold explosion in funding for the European Union's Erasmus exchange programme has been proposed by the European Commission, which wants to increase spending to €5.8 billion (£3.8 billion) in...
An Iranian university professor sentenced to death for blasphemy has been freed after two years in prison. Hashem Aghajari, a history professor at Tehran's Tarbiat Modarress University, was convicted...
The president of the University of Hawaii, has resigned after accepting a $2 million-plus (£1.1 million) package offered when the university withdrew a decision to fire him. He had threatened to sue...
Sri Lanka's Sri Jayawardhanapura University has reopened with a government-devised security system. The university was closed for eight weeks after the second political murder of a student. A...
A 9.5 billion CFA franc (£9.5 million) grant from the Islamic Development Bank will be used to upgrade agricultural and information technology research programmes at the National University.
Three Gabonese student leaders have been jailed for ten months for assault and "breach of trust" after their arrest during demonstrations demanding payment of bursaries and improved conditions. A...
Students at the Bauhaus University of Weimar are designing souvenirs and memorabilia for sale at the former Nazi death camp at Buchenwald. Opponents of the project say selling souvenirs to tourists...
Howard Newby embraces the opportunities that the HE Act offers to a cash-strapped but energetic sector A residing strength of the higher education sector is its ability to look beyond itself: its...
Lisa Jardine recalls her fear of being expelled when a man climbed up to her room at 2am - to talk politics Lisa Jardine was supposed to have been a mathematician. That she did not fulfil...
Since the job advertisement for higher education's most unpopular new position - director of the Office for Fair Access - appeared in The Times Higher four weeks ago it seems that vice-chancellors...
It appears that Alan Johnson, the Higher Education Minister, is staying put for the time being after Tony Blair decided to give Peter Mandelson a ticket to Brussels and shuffle off on holiday instead...
Whitehall gossip now predicts that the Prime Minister will give his ministerial team only a minor tweak after the summer break. Science Minister Lord Sainsbury is still widely tipped to be one of...
Sex and football aside, it is clear that animal-rights extremism has become the story of the summer, with anyone who is anyone rushing to comment. Anyone, that is, except higher education...
Leaked Conservative Party proposals to raise interest rates on student loans would raise only half as much as top-up fees, a leading economist claimed this week. The Conservatives have already...
A Kingston University academic on a trip to Belarus has been expelled from the country and told not to return for five years. Alan Flowers, who has been involved with academic exchanges with Belarus...