THES reporters look at the new Roberts report on the assessment of research The funding councils have asked universities to help them develop threshold standards for delivering postgraduate research...
About a quarter of all students in UK higher education may be from overseas by 2025 - double the current proportion, the British Council has predicted. The change could force institutions to rethink...
Government policies on skills and innovation will not create an economy capable of competing effectively in the global markets, according to a new report. Robert Taylor, media fellow with the...
Medics with disabilities should be welcomed by the health service, says Anne Tynan. "The attitude was to cure disabilities," David Du Bois, associate professor specialising in disability issues at...
Fault lines are emerging between England and post-devolution Scotland in higher education and health, according to the principal of Dundee University. Sir Alan Langlands, former chief executive of...
The European Union's Fulbright-style international exchange programme may be delayed by a looming political battle over funding. A row between the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers...
The Irish government has been forced to ditch plans to bring back tuition fees. Instead, it will invest more in schemes to help students from lower socioeconomic groups get into higher education. The...
Europe's protectionist focus on public-financed universities would lead to stagnation, the head of the Australian-based Global University Alliance warned last week. Terry Hilsberg accused Europeans...
Student fees are likely to rise for the first time since 1999 under a new regime announced in the New Zealand government's budget. From this year, the government will set the maximum fee that...
A private medical school in the Cayman Islands graduated its first doctors this month as part of a bid to prevent the islands' would-be doctors leaving for overseas. St Matthew's University School of...
A student is suing a California college for limiting public speaking to three designated "free-speech areas" in the latest of a series of disputes involving freedom of expression on increasingly...
Some US universities are blocking Chinese students from attending summer programmes because of a fear of severe acute respiratory syndrome. Harvard University has also banned them from graduation...
Australian students will be limited to the equivalent of five years' full-time study if they are admitted to a government-subsidised place after January 2005. Under the learning entitlement system,...
Britain's commitment to Europe was not mentioned in the white paper, yet it is key to success, says Juliet Lodge. Discussion of a new constitution and the timing of Britain's potential adoption of...
Since winning scarce resources is what matters, UUK is unlikely to do anything to rock the government policy boat. Higher education policies are diverging at enormous speed under devolution, which...