After the gold rush
Ireland's economic boom brought equally impressive growth in higher education enrolment. But in a chillier fiscal climate, what awaits the Celtic Tiger's universities? Hannah Fearn reports
Ireland's economic boom brought equally impressive growth in higher education enrolment. But in a chillier fiscal climate, what awaits the Celtic Tiger's universities? Hannah Fearn reports
Britain's one-year masters is proving a sticking point in the Bologna Process, but the equivalence issue is raising difficult questions about length of study for other degrees, too. Hannah Fearn...
Outstanding Support for disabled StudentsBrunel UniversityBrunel's Disability and Dyslexia Service set up support services for students with learning differences and for those with mental-health...
Winners of nine grants from a controversial Foreign Office-funded programme to help combat terrorism have been announced. Last year, The Times Higher revealed that the Economic and Social Research...
Byzantium
UK universities are missing a "golden opportunity" to set up campuses in the Middle East's Gulf states, according to an expert on higher education there. Chris Davidson is concerned that UK...
The British Academy2008 Postdoctoral FellowshipsForty-nine 2008 Postdoctoral Fellowships have been awarded by the British Academy across the humanities and social sciences, of which twelve are listed...
Jeffrey Richards revels in Piers Brendon's vivid evocation of a liberal Empire with an irreconcilable paradox at its heart.
INDIAN PM CRITICISES STATE OF ACADEME Most of India's universities are "below average", according to the nation's prime minister, Manmohan Singh. Speaking at Mumbai University, Mr Singh called for an...
Britain is gripped by an unfounded "moral panic" that it needs to produce more home-grown science graduates to keep the economy competitive, the director of a six-year, £5 million science and society...
Books on Fire
European universities will need to shrink by 2020 or recruit large numbers of overseas students to adjust to demographic changes, researchers have said. A paper in the journal International Higher...
British Council makes the move from teacher training to supporting a cultural dialogue. Nick Holdsworth reports. The British Council is to change the focus of its work in Moscow after a period of...
Conference hears that the right pitch is key in luring demanding overseas 'consumers'. John Gill reports
The World University Rankings 2007 are online here Martin Ince reveals the winners and losers in The Times Higher -QS World University Rankings 2007. The world's top ten universities are in the UK or...