Finland's 30 polytechnics are to offer postgraduate degrees for the first time from autumn 2002 in a bid to boost industry. The ministry of education, together with the assessment board in higher...
Mario Fregoni, professor of wine-making in the agriculture department of the Catholic University of Piacenza, is taking the fizz out of French national prestige with a broadside straight at the...
Three universities on the shores of Lake Geneva have agreed to a restructuring that will enable cooperative research and teaching programmes. The universities of Geneva and Lausanne and the Ecole...
A plan to cut the number of South Africa's Afrikaans language universities from five to two has been met with resistance. If proposals from a government advisory committee are accepted, three...
A small public university has begun a scholarship programme for gay students whose parents refuse to provide them with financial support, writes John Marcus. The aid plan was begun at the instigation...
After at least ten suicides in as many years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has admitted problems with its campus healthcare system. MIT's action comes as US students admit to greater...
Canadian academics are showing a greater willingness to speak to reporters and are increasingly grooming for the cameras, according to media trainers. As a growing number of niche publications and...
A researcher at the University of Sunderland has shed light on the disappearance of a highly profitable section of the publishing industry - girls' comics. Mel Gibson, awarded a PhD for her research...
A computer games specialist from the University of Abertay Dundee is to head a mission to investigate Japanese expertise in the field. Jim TerKeurst, lecturer in computer arts, will lead a team that...
Online business-education company UNext laid off 135 employees last week - nearly half its workforce. The company is in partnership with the London School of Economics and the universities of...
Only 20 per cent of UK universities clearly highlight their e-learning facilities on their websites, according to a review. Mel Collier, library director of Tilburg University in the Netherlands and...
£1m business brains The Higher Education Funding Council for England launched a £1 million "brains into business" scheme with the Department for Education and Skills and the Department of Trade and...
The University of Cambridge and Rolls-Royce are extending their long term partnership in a deal that will finance a new gas turbine research centre in Cambridge. The rolling five-year agreement is...
Strathclyde University researchers are working on a simple and cheap oil-drilling technique that could extend the production lifespan of North Sea oil wells. Scott MacGregor and Steve Turnbull of...
The Australian cybersquatter who lost his rights to the domain name www.university-of-oxford. com after a complaint by the University of Oxford remains undeterred by the ruling from the World...