MPs launch early day motion on international students
By . A cross-party group of MPs has launched a fresh bid to get international students removed from the UK’s net migration target. More...
Mena snapshot puts Texas A&M at Qatar in top spot
By . Qatar and Lebanon are the top performers in a snapshot of what a new ranking for universities in the Middle East and North Africa could look like. More...
Baroness Blackstone criticises ‘lousy’ private colleges
By . Students enrolling at ‘lousy’ private colleges should not be allowed to access public funding, a former education minister and vice-chancellor has said. More...
Funding for Scottish universities 'held back'
By . Scottish universities have accused the Holyrood government of ‘holding back’ £21.5 million of funding for the sector. More...
Grant letter: funding stable, but uncertainty for next year
By . University funding levels will remain broadly similar next year to those announced in 2014, the government’s annual grant letter has today confirmed. More...
Undergraduate applications hit record number, says Ucas
By . But experts warn numbers are disguising fall in part-time and mature applicants. More...
University staff back revised USS reform plan
By . Staff at pre-1992 universities have voted by two to one in favour of accepting plans to end the country’s largest private final salary pension scheme. More...
Racial profiling on campus: debate reignited
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed. The debate over racial profiling – already a hot topic on many US college campuses – gained renewed attention this weekend when Yale University police briefly detained a black male student. Black students and faculty members at many campuses charge that racial profiling is a fact of life for them, but this student’s experience immediately attracted wide attention. His father is a New York Times columnist who has written about racial profiling and whose Twitter feed attracts many eyeballs. More...
FT Global MBA Ranking 2015: London Business School claims second place
By . London Business School has continued its climb up the Financial Times’ Global MBA Ranking, claiming second place in the 2015 table. More...
Burns’ work translated by Chinese scholar
By . As Burns Night is celebrated around the world, the work of Scotland’s national poet is being brought to a new audience.
Li Zhengshuan, a professor of English literature at Hebei Normal University in China, has embarked on a project to translate the poems of Robert Burns into contemporary Chinese. More...
