The race equality watchdog has joined a growing list of institutions accused of racism by former Greenwich University lecturer Suresh Deman. The THES reported last week that Mr Deman, a business...
Competition among America's elite institutions for the best students has taken another twist with last week's announcements by Stanford and Yale universities that they will drop their early...
Tim Wilson is to take over as vice-chancellor of Hertfordshire University next year when Neil Buxton retires after 15 years. Professor Wilson, a former rugby coach, has been at the university since...
Labour backbenchers are threatening a revolt over top-up fees amid fears that higher tuition charges will deter young people from poor families, writes Alan Thomson. More than 90 Labour MPs have...
The government must plough an extra £9.6 million a year into higher education, as well as £7.9 million in one-off capital expenditure, if careers services are to meet graduate employability...
The prospect of a life spent inside an ivory tower has never appealed to Malcolm Grant, pro vice-chancellor of Cambridge University. He has a string of outside interests including being a barrister...
Targets are to be set detailing the numbers of poorer people universities must recruit in each English region, funding council officials confirmed this week. A document to be published soon...
A Cambridge University college has expressed "distaste" for top-up fees as the university prepares to restate its position on the issue. Cambridge is today expected to oppose the charging of...
Protests at Kabul University led to violent clashes with the police this week, leaving at least one student dead and sparking more demonstrations and the occupation of the university. The first major...
One of the largest probes into the possible existence of extrasensory perception has found no evidence of the phenomenon despite the involvement of ,856 participants. The Mind Machine experiment,...
Harvard University has cancelled a lecture by Oxford academic and poet Tom Paulin after complaints about his criticisms of Israel. Mr Paulin had been due to speak to the English department last night...
Australia's first private university spin-off from a public university has been praised as an original that could start a trend. The UK Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, which tracks...
Students at Voronezh University in Russia have set up a vigilante unit to protect overseas students from racist attacks by local skinheads. Muggings of students of non-European origin by local...
Beijing's Tsinghua University has banned first-year students from taking personal computers into dormitories because of fears they will lurk late into the night in internet chatrooms. The university...
How should research be assessed? Gareth Roberts urges those who have an opinion to contact his review panel Researchers, policy-makers and higher education managers face a collective challenge. We...