University fundraisers are turning to role-play training sessions at American-led "masterclasses" to learn how to woo rich potential benefactors, writes Phil Baty. Two top US professionals are being...
Twenty-two Coventry University graphic design students boycotted their final-year degree show last week and instead issued a long catalogue of grievances. The self-styled Coventry 22, most of them...
A more global market threatens British dominance in overseas education Britain and the United States have slumped as first choices for study among young people from predominantly Islamic countries, a...
Britain faces an unstoppable tide of immigration regardless of legislative barriers, an Oxford University academic warned this week, writes Claire Sanders. Steven Vertovec, director of Oxford's new...
Academics are alarmed by the practical emphasis in the long-awaited curriculum for the new social work degree and by the lack of information about funding. The degree replaces the two-year diploma as...
Leading UK scientists have rejected the introduction of a grace period during which inventors could disclose aspects of their research before filing for a patent. In the Royal Society's response to...
Staff at Nottingham Trent University's private partner college, the European School of Economics, have resorted to extreme measures in order to get paid. At the London campus of the ESE, staff have...
Up to 150 students at Ankara University's theology faculty failed their exams because a headscarf ban kept them from class.
Plans for a pan-European research council to help the continent compete with the US for the fruits of future advances have divided leading figures in UK science. Research council chief executives met...
Italians take their food so seriously that they are founding the first university devoted to gastronomy. "Food, eating, are basic to human existence yet gastronomic sciences have never had academic...
Prime minister Tony Blair wants 50 per cent of 18 to 30-year-olds in higher education by 2010. Yesterday, Iain Gray, Scotland's minister for enterprise, transport and lifelong learning, revealed that...
Russian higher education is subject to more bribes than any other sector except healthcare, according to Georgiy Saratov, a former aide to President Boris Yeltsin. The number of payments and gifts to...
Colombia's constitutional court has ruled that students following lectures on ethics and Roman Catholic morality at university are no longer obliged to reveal their religious beliefs, after a...
A bid to introduce positive discrimination for Roma at Slovakia's Comenius University has led to racism claims by activists. The top three Roma applicants will be admitted to the medical faculty if...
South African education minister Kader Asmal is fighting an impassioned defence of his bold restructuring of higher education after cabinet accepted his plan for large-scale mergers. The number of...