By John Elmes. The French education minister has announced plans to create a unique digital database for degree qualifications, which aims to simplify the task of verifying job candidates’ academic ability to employers and to save a significant amount of government money. More...

By John Elmes. Women in Leadership conference host says schools must ‘deconstruct’ curricula to combat gender bias. More...

By John Elmes. Ed Byrne, president and principal of King’s College London, believes that any university not exploring the world of distance education will find itself in “real trouble” because no institution is “immune to disruption”. More...

By Natasha Turner. With Regent’s University London the latest to offer the US-style of undergraduate education, Natasha Turner looks at how courses are being received elsewhere. More...

By Victoria Halman. Victoria Halman investigates how employers view the growing trend for graduates to take a second qualification to help them land a first job. More...

By Chris Havergal. Register now to attend the THE Young Universities Summit on 5 to 7 April 2016 Universities in the Middle East and North Africa have been told to stop “apologising” for their relative youth. More...

By Chris Havergal. A preoccupation with technical skills means many Middle Eastern graduates lack broader knowledge and understanding, according to university leaders who called for a re-imagination of liberal arts. More...

By Chris Havergal. With huge spending power and thousands of employees, what could one of the UK’s largest banks possibly learn from students. More...

By Chris Havergal. The voice of academics must not be lost from university governance as institutions around the world shift towards a corporate model of leadership, a conference heard. More...

By Chris Havergal. Nearly half of the richest applicants to postgraduate degrees expect to rely on their parents for funding, while as few as one in eight students from poorer backgrounds can say the same. More...