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AustraliaAssaults may batter marketA series of physical attacks on foreign students have left Australia dangerously close to sanctions that could lead to the collapse of its international student...
AustraliaAssaults may batter marketA series of physical attacks on foreign students have left Australia dangerously close to sanctions that could lead to the collapse of its international student...
Free, immediate and permanently available research results for all - that's what the open-access campaigners want. Unsurprisingly, the subscription publishers disagree. Zoë Corbyn weighs up the...
Publishers see every download of a pirate copy of a textbook as a sale lost. Now they are fighting back against the bookaneers, writes Rebecca Attwood
Many hope that higher education will help pull the UK out of recession. Matthew Reisz assesses the growth potential in the sector's resources
Kevin Fong bemoans science's continuing inability to secure its future
Camilla Power finds emotional modernity is the legacy of co-operative breeding
China is hungry for Western-style universities, not least to fuel its economy. Phil Baty reports on the efforts to uproot corruption and bureaucracy and build a dynamic and vibrant world-class system
?= Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCESDarwin Studies: A Theorist and his Theories in their ContextsBy M.J.S. Hodge, senior fellow in history and philosophy of science, University of LeedsAshgate, £...
UK institutions seeking to consolidate their position overseas are discovering Malaysia's potential. John Gill reports from Kuala Lumpur
EDUCATION- Boys and Foreign Language Learning: Real Boys Don't Do LanguagesBy Jo Carr, senior lecturer, School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, Queensland University of Technology, and...
One government department is at loggerheads with another over cuts in funding for students studying second degrees, it emerged this week.Correspondence leaked to Times Higher Education reveals that...
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILThirteen projects will share more than £300,000 under the Science and Heritage Research Clusters Scheme. The other winners were listed last week.Award winner: A.M...
The University of Wales, Lampeter has named Medwin Hughes vice-chancellor, as part of plans to merge the institution with Trinity University College to create the University of Wales: Trinity Saint...
Committee cites downturn in calling for Government to drop participation targets. Hannah Fearn reports
The profession must take small steps to build its standing, a study has found. Zoë Corbyn reports