Think globally, urges Ischinger
Many higher education institutions in industrialised countries are focusing too heavily on funding problems at the expense of international mobility, the director of education at the Organisation for...
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Bid to halt decline in UK Erasmus participation
Europe is to offer more financial and language support to revive interest in mobility scheme. Ian Mundell reports Declining involvement in the Erasmus student mobility programme is worrying the...
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Art courses look to develop Islamic crafts and supply staff for a growing industry
Times Higher reporters investigate the changing face of higher education in the United Arab Emirates The first students about to graduate from a fine art course at Sharjah's College of Fine Arts will...
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Colleges take first steps to go co-ed
A female's desire to study engineering could lead to the breaking down of the gender divide. Anthea Lipsett reports When Sarah Mohammed Al Ameri found she could not study engineering at any of the...
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Minister who set up tech institutes out of own pocket urges generosity from state
The United Arab Emirates' ÌÇÐÄVlog Minister, His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, is pushing the Government for more money to finance the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCTs)....
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Women eye up graduate job market
The students at the all-female Zayed University, clad in black abayas , are discussing job opportunities. Those wanting to go into banking or teaching will have no problem, they reckon, but employers...
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Learning to love the workplace 1
When the ÌÇÐÄVlog Minister holds meetings with the business community, it is natural for work-based learning to be high on the agenda. But Bill Rammell's meeting in Sheffield this week was...
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Stick to what matters 2
When is an academic not an academic? When he or she is having an identity crisis, according to some at the ÌÇÐÄVlog Academy's conference this week. There are now so many different roles to...
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Disruptive politics must be allowed to muscle in
Oxford alumni Mathew Humphrey and Marc Stears are a 'protected' species when it comes to animal rights protesters - a status they find problematic We have become "protected persons". As alumni of...
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David Runciman: tired and emotional, they shriek and wail
This is the World Cup when the tournament stopped being simply a festival of football and became the festival of the fan. No longer was it enough merely to watch the matches on TV with a few friends...
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Outsider dealing
The Department for Education and Skills is, after all, on the lookout for a former vice-chancellor to replace Alan Wilson, who is standing down as director-general for higher education in September....
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Word imperfect
One syllable can make all the difference. To much amusement at the ÌÇÐÄVlog Academy's conference this week, its chief executive, Paul Ramsden introduced Colin Campbell, Nottingham University'...
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Slowly does it
Confirmation that the election for the coveted post of general secretary of the University and College Union will not be held until February has been met with heavy hearts by some union officials....
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Roo'd awakening
Even degree ceremonies are being exploited by the rest of the UK to capitalise on England's sorrow at its team's World Cup defeat. Belfast-born TV presenter Eamon Holmes, who was this week awarded an...
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If we want winners, there will be losers
The world cannot afford to tackle all its dire problems, so we are going to have to make some tough decisions, says Bjorn Lomborg Nobody wants to be the bad guy. Nobody wants to say that one...