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 ÌÇÐÄVlog, 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...
While the government considers whether to allow top-up fees as a solution to the financial crisis facing universities, it is easy to forget why Labour introduced tuition fees. Thank goodness, then,...
An update has arrived from the search for the world's most outstandingly obscure journals. Jonathan Adams, managing director of consultants Evidence, was called in to validate the publications...
An email has arrived from Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and spiritual founder of University College London, who is campaigning against the speed of its proposed merger with Imperial College London....
Christopher Todd Brown is suing the University of California, Santa Barbara, after it refused him a masters degree. Mr Brown included the phrase "**** you" in the "disacknowledgements" section of his...