UK students are wondering why they should stay home when they can study overseas where the sun shines for lower fees. By Steve McCormack. As the British emerge from a long, cold winter, it's not difficult to understand why thousands ...

Canada doubles international students in 10 years The Canadian government has said that last year’s intake of 80,0000 international students represented an almost doubling of the figures for a decade earlier. Embassy* magazine reported that international student recruitment numbers jumped ...

Lincoln, New Zealand’s smallest university, would nearly triple its staff numbers and annual income if a surprise proposal for a merger with the largest Crown research institute, AgResearch, goes ahead. The merger has been touted as creating a university that ...

Green tea, mushrooms cut breast cancer risk Chinese women who ate mushrooms and drank green tea significantly cut their risk of breast cancer and the severity of the cancer in those who did develop it. Min Zhang, from the University ...

Welcome to the first round of Professor Punt for 2009. In reality, Professor Punt is Stephen Clarke, professor of sports statistics at Swinburne University. Due to our publishing deadlines, our tips are a week ahead.

Higher education administrators will have to wait for the May budget, compact negotiations and internal accounting exercises before they can expect a clear picture of where research funding is headed. Speaking at last week’s Australian Financial Review higher education conference, ...

A $2 million feasibility study into the creation of a regional national university may simply be a merger dressed up as federal government policy, critics say. The proposed study by Charles Sturt University and Southern Cross University, both located in ...

Politics matters. In one corner is Kim Carr and Denise Bradley and in the other is Treasury. Julia Gillard is shuffling between the two. The decisions that get made in the next couple of months will resonate for decades, says ...

The higher education sector needs a new rankings system which is broad, ethical and global, says Adam Shoemaker. I believe that years of comparative university rankings will achieve something positive: they will act as a spur for improvement, an irritant ...