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New study adds to evidence that student reviews of professors have limited validity.
The Lars Løkke Rasmussen government is moving to cut funding for universities and the student financing system and increase political control over higher education institutions.
Ask people what’s wrong in American higher education, and you’ll hear about grade inflation.
The government's policy focus on reducing net migration is causing unnecessary harm to the UK s international education sector one of the UK s biggest services exports This report asks how through better informed policy the UK can attract more students in a growing and increasingly competitive global marketplace
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is putting $35 million towards a pair of software institutes that will build the tools necessary for 21st-century research.
Scholar says overseas outposts cannot compete with universities abroad without delivering a ‘superior’ service
Americans embraced the marketisation of higher education, with profit-making colleges and debt-laden customers. The result has been corruption and failure
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Doctoral courses are slowly being modernized. Now the thesis and viva need to catch up.
At first glance, the most innovative universities in Europe don't appear to have much in common. Some are Catholic schools, some are secular, others are state-run and some are private. One is 920 years old. Another has been an independent institution for less than a decade. They’re scattered across the continent, some in large cities, others in rural areas.
A new study of a novel undergraduate program at the University of Texas (UT), Austin, has found that giving college freshmen the opportunity to do research as part of their coursework significantly increases their chances of completing college and graduating with a science degree.
It is essential that computer programming to be taught in schools will lead to improving children’s ability to think logically and creatively.
Has teaching been the poor cousin of research for too long?
Control, surveillance and thought manipulation: there is an undercurrent of 1984 in today’s academy, doublethinks Eric Blair
Study suggests saturation point of higher education expansion is some way off.
Have you heard the latest wisecrack about Harvard? People are calling it a hedge fund with a university attached.
Johns Hopkins and MedImmune team up to train scientists
If you had a university degree back in 1972, you were likely to earn 20% more than those without one. Today, that number has soared to 70%. But not all degrees will give you the same retu...
