Talks later this month between conservationists and Club Mediterranée may seal the fate of the last colony of one of the world's rarest birds. The holiday village company wants to develop an area...
Asunción Paraguayan students this week demonstrated over poor government funding for education, health and social programmes, excessive military spending and political corruption. Wellington A...
Austria's education minister expects that the introduction of university fees will reduce the number of students by 70,000. Elisabeth Gehrer has implicitly accepted the premise of a study by the...
German student organisations have called for the resignation of education minister Edelgard Bulmahn after she supported charging fees for students who take more than 13 semesters to complete their...
Canadian university revenues are booming but students say the extra money has done nothing to lessen their financial burdens. Revenues rose 15.7 per cent between 1998-99 and 1999-2000. Fees rose 9.8...
Nigeria's university commission has withdrawn a licence granted to former dictator General Ibrahim Babangida to establish the private Heritage University in northern Nigeria. It is the first time a...
For the first time in Australia a chancellor at one university and a vice-chancellor at another have been forced out of office in the same week, writes Geoff Maslen. The University of Sydney senate...
An international boycott imposed on the University of Wollongong after one of its senior academics was summarily dismissed in February has been lifted following a federal court decision last week....
UK universities can now access an ecology and botany collection comprising 29 journals and more than 1 million pages put together by Jstor, the scholarly journals archive. It is the third digital...
Universities and software process development companies could hold the key to business survival in the networked economy. More than 2,500 academic and business delegates at a recent Rational-Software...
Foreign academics are boycotting US-based research programmes and conferences in reaction to the arrest of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, a lobby group has claimed. The Electronic Frontier...
Scotland's innovative Institute for System Level Integration is trying to capture the younger generation through a workshop for physics teachers. The workshop is part of a pioneering summer school...
A degree course in mobile computing is being launched by Staffordshire University at the same time as the industry is facing global recession. Thousands of jobs have been shed by multinational...
Despite Crete's climate and an enviable record for publication in international journals - the highest in Greece - the island's university has chronic difficulty in attracting students. Crete's...
Multi-tasking Lindsay Taylor strives to keep her balance and save students from themselves in the third in our series from the grass roots. I have a mental picture of my job that closely resembles...