One in five state-school students failed to achieve their conditional offer last summer, Cambridge University said this week. The failure rate partly explains why Cambridge was unable to turn a 1 per...
How do you reverse the fortunes of a university in free fall and make a name for it in a crowded field? Lincoln's vice-chancellor gave Jim Kelly a few tips. The emerging market in higher education...
The director-general of the European Union's Joint Research Centre will lose his job this year, a victim of the need to offer high-level European Commission posts to representatives of the (mostly)...
Garret Fitzgerald, the former Irish premier, has reversed his longstanding opposition to the return of university tuition fees, which were abolished in the mid-1990s by a coalition government...
Illegal immigrants living in the US face new barriers to higher education after a federal judge ruled that they may be denied admission to universities. The case was brought in Virginia by two...
Australia's Labor opposition has warned universities that it will ban top-up fees and full-fee places for Australian students if it wins this year's federal elections. Under last December's changes...
South African opposition MPs say government policies are driving medical graduates overseas and that new legislation will speed up their flight. The Democratic Alliance has called on the government...
Efforts to attain the Department for International Education's Millennium Goal of universal primary education by 2015 may be threatened by the international flow of trained teachers. While there is a...
Helen Clark, New Zealand's prime minister, has promised a review of academic programmes aimed at ethnic groups after an opposition attack on university admission procedures that favour Maori students...
Australia's experience of tuition fees means England has little to fear, writes Grant Harman. The Labour government's income-contingent variable fees plan for English universities is moving...
Speculation is intensifying as to who will head the new Office for Fair Access if the higher education bill becomes law. Millionaire philanthropist Sir Peter Lampl has told Charles Clarke, the...
While the Association of University Teachers deploys one of the most provocative weapons in its fight against the proposed new pay framework (an exam and assessment boycott), lecturers' union Natfhe...
The embryonic Justice Sector Skills Council is so confident that it will receive ministerial approval by the end of the month that it has found itself premises on Gray's Inn Road in London. The new...
Nepotism would appear to stalk the hallowed halls of the Geological Society of London. The current issue of the society's magazine Geoscientist contains a feature on Portland stone lavishly...
Warwick University students this week launched an attempt to recapture the world record for the largest pillow fight ever. Earlier this month, 967 Warwick students set the mark, but it was soon...