New Zealand universities are setting student fees for 2004 within limits they criticised when they were announced earlier this year. Although the government's hope that rises would be less than the...
A fourfold jump in the number of students seeking access to higher education in other countries by 2025 is predicted by researchers from IDP Education Australia - from 2 million this year to 7.6...
Loyiso Nongxa's appointment as the first black vice-chancellor of the University of the Wi****ersrand is a South African success story, writes Karen MacGregor in Durban. Professor Nongxa, who had a...
One way to ensure cash for higher education is for each generation to invest in the next, argues Rob Marris Whether top-up fees will have the positive effect on university funding suggested in the...
Britain's best-known female scientist has hit back at her critics after a Nobel laureate attacked her latest book in this week's THES . Philip Anderson begins his review of Oxford professor Susan...
Funding chiefs look set to sidestep the government's controversial proposals for further concentration of research as set out in January's higher education white paper. The move represents a near-...
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu is about to take up his first academic appointment. The former general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, who was awarded the peace prize in 1984 for his...
High levels of a fungal toxin have been found in organic maize products sold in British shops, prompting top scientists to question the safety of this increasingly popular approach to agriculture....
MPs and charities are calling on the government to ringfence cancer research funding amid fears that millions of pounds that could help find a cure is being spent on red tape. The Department of...
Senior academics at Leeds University have voted in favour of national bargaining, undermining threats by the elite Russell Group, of which Leeds is a member, to set its own pay. The university's...
CRUNCH TIME Unions and employers lock horns in the final meeting on pay ALSO Madeleine Albright talks about her academic and political past in international relations and gives her views on America's...
Bristol University was fighting an outbreak of bacterial meningitis this week after three first years and a second year contracted the disease. All four were admitted to hospital and in a stable...
Sussex University has received a £1.5 million windfall after the Court of Appeal ruled in its favour over a tax case dating back to 1973. Sussex had submitted a claim to recover VAT on overheads...
In last week's THES ("Contract sparks row over IP rights", page 8) we said that Richard Lambert was carrying out a review of Cambridge business links for the Treasury. In fact, his remit is to review...
Thames Valley University is to merge with Reading College to create the UK's most advanced hybrid further and higher education institution. The merged institution, which bills itself as a "vocational...