Two weeks before Australian federal elections, vice-chancellors, deans of education, academics, students and the various scholarly academies have demanded that whichever party wins make education its...
Butterworth A student leader at South Africa's Eastern Cape Technikon has been shot dead in an incident believed to be linked to student council elections. Washington DC ...
France has for the first time published university league tables that measure student success and assess how effective individual universities are in overcoming student's social disadvantages. The...
As tensions escalate in the Middle East, a consortium of 22 universities around the Mediterranean has been formed to supply distance-learning courses to students in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon...
A new course in the study of Islam at Amsterdam's Free University is to train students to become spiritual "carers" rather than imams because the university fears interference from Muslim groups...
Posh Spice, Calista Flockhart and other emaciated female icons of western culture may not be a bad influence after all. A study suggests that the stereotypical images of women portrayed in the media...
Salford University musicians have launched a website on which they can showcase their work to record company talent-spotters. The site aims to meet a growing demand from commercial operators for...
A key ingredient of green tea may provide protection from arthritis. Sheffield University scientists have found that an anti-oxidising enzyme - epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG - seems to halt the...
Two telecommunications experts in Northern Ireland have developed a technology that could cut the cost of internet access while boosting reliability and speed. Next week, Gerard Parr, of the...
Clare Broom has taken up the post of pro vice-chancellor for planning and development at the University of Plymouth . Geraldine van Bueren , professor of international human rights law at Queen Mary...
Dartington College of Arts will confer honorary awards on: artist Ewart Johns ; John Bull , vice-chancellor of the University of Plymouth; Marcus Davey , chief executive of the Roundhouse; Rose...
The microbe of the moment, Bacillus anthracis , is an effective killer and a born survivor. Its toxin is notoriously swift and usually deadly. Symptoms appear within days and, if breathed in, it is...
Education secretary Estelle Morris this week conceded that the plethora of hardship funds, childcare grants and funds-for-students-called-Grant has become unmanageable. In her first higher education...
It is not really done to foul your own nest, but maybe Ralf Dahrendorf felt - he was abroad and speaking German - he could get away with it. Last week, during a presentation on 100 years of social...
Paul Marsden, the Labour MP in the firing line for opposing the bombing of Afghanistan, may have dropped out of higher education but the experience seems to have done him no harm. Mr Marsden studied...