When academics think of European Union funding, they often cite the European Commission's framework programmes, but another EU institution, the European Investment Bank, is playing an increasingly...
Ontario has too many students for too few university places. Stephen Strauss explains. The news that Ontario, Canada's most populous province and home to upwards of 40 per cent of its university...
Only a year after its combative president stirred worldwide controversy with remarks about the academic qualifications of women, Harvard University has replaced him with the first female chief...
The debt incurred by American law school students to pay escalating tuition fees is deterring them from work in social-service jobs, which pay lower salaries than private-sector jobs at high-priced...
Fake institutions in the US will soon face criminal charges, but Britain has yet to take the issue seriously, says Geoffrey Alderman. Within a few days of taking control of the US Congress, the...
I did something terrible the other day. I taught a group of students. I gave them a new interpretation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four . I know I shouldn't have done it but, the thing is, I...
Fingernails were chewed to the quick at Universities UK's winter reception. Organisers were delighted with the attendance at its annual event: the Houses of Parliament's terrace marquee venue was...
The student experience was a hot topic at the UUK event, something the London School of Economics is keenly aware of. Last May, a senior lecturer in government told prospective students at an open...
Talking of students, most young female students would be offended to be compared to a male rugby player. Not so Katy McLean, who recently debuted for the England Women's Rugby team. She is in the...
Meanwhile, Sheffield Hallam University is keen to raise the fitness of its less sporty staff. To improve wellbeing and motivation, the health and wellbeing faculty is introducing a "jolly little...
Montenegro's National Security Agency looks set to become a model of erudition. Its new statutes require that all employees have a university degree. They will need it because they will have to live...
Many of the Arab nations have been blessed with vast reserves of oil and natural gas that became the dominant engines of the economic change that occurred during the past century. That, of course, is...
If academe is to tackle plagiarism, it must begin to levy tougher penalties on cheats and reward the honest, argues Sunny Bains. It doesn't pay to be an honest student. Early penalties for plagiarism...
The trend for close elections will continue as new technology changes the nature of politics, says David Runciman When George W. Bush and Al Gore in effect tied in the contest for US President in...
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