Funding chiefs are monitoring reforms to student complaints procedures at the University of Central Lancashire after a blind student with one leg suffered unnecessary distress over the handling of...
Kilted bartenders, emulating Tom Cruise's bar-room skills in the film Cocktail , are the stars of the newly launched Strathclyde University student business start-up, Liquid Assets. The professional...
Breaking up is not so hard to do for lifelong learners. A survey carried out for the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education has found that the proportion of lifelong learners in the...
Babies are born with an innate ability to tell the faces of different primates apart. Research has shown that at six months an infant is as adept at differentiating between simians as they are humans...
While all armies march on their stomachs, the fourth crusade was led by its belly to one of the most shameful episodes in medieval warfare. The chain of events that prompted a Christian army to...
Methods to protect the active ingredients in drugs and to detect cancers using light have won the research councils' business plan competitions. Last week, scientists from Nottingham University and a...
Germany's leading companies are to launch an elite university for young managers in Berlin in October, which they hope will compete with Harvard University and the London Business School. Eighteen...
Irish universities claim they are losing out in the competition for top-class international academics and students because of visa and work permit red tape. And they say that bringing in academics...
Israel's university campuses are reflecting the political upheaval created by Palestinian suicide bombers and Israeli army incursions into towns across the West Bank. Issues of freedom of speech and...
A deal to implement the European Union's €16.2 billion (£10 billion) Sixth Framework Programme on research from January 2003 was finalised on Wednesday. All of the European Parliament's main...
The University of Michigan law school acted legally when it took race into account when deciding which students to admit, a federal appeal court ruled this week. The court overturned an earlier...
One of the key architects of Russia's education modernisation programme has called for international cooperation for reform to step up a level. Viktor Bolotov, Russia's first deputy minister of...
Engineers at the University of Naples have developed a "submerged floating tunnel", which is anchored to the sea bed and which they claim overcomes many of the structural and environmental problems...
Australian universities have experienced a 14 per cent jump in enrolments this year with an estimated 835,000 students expected on campus. The unprecedented increase of more than 100,000 students...
The New Zealand government faces paying students and the University of Otago more than NZ$15 million (£4.6 million) after the High Court declared that the decision to cut funding to the university's...