Terrorists are targeting Colombia's public universities in the conflict between leftist guerrillas and rightist paramilitaries. Last month, car bombs near Bogotá's Universidad Nacional de Colombia...
Conferences help the US to chat to Europeans about antipathy to American policy, Dorothy Zinberg writes. The invisible college of the Middle Ages, often thought to have given rise to the British...
Princeton University revives its Scottish connection on June 22 and simultaneously salutes the end of a remarkable chapter in American education. After almost 14 years as Princeton president, Harold...
Roskilde University Centre, the University of South Denmark and the Panum Institute - Copenhagen University's faculty of health - are among Danish universities tightening security following threats...
Germany's Social Democrat education minister, Edelgard Bulmahn, has scored a victory in her fight to introduce performance-related pay for university professors after the cabinet approved her reform...
Heriot-Watt University and a leading venture management group have forged a £12 million partnership to encourage academic spin-off companies. The five-year agreement is between Heriot-Watt and...
Online scholarly books and journals are still suffering from a credibility problem despite having moved towards more acceptable quality standards, according to a Canadian study that gauged academic...
Why is there no warning carried with drugs that researchers say increase the risk of suicide? Philip Fine reports. A simple question continually nagged David Healy. For years, the...
It is obvious that animals remember. When food is abundant, birds and mammals hoard it in caches and can retrieve it days, weeks, even months later when it has become scarce. But because they cannot...
Olga Wojtas squeezes into a hotel room to hear a nurse's tale of further study. The workshop title, "Perspectives of Adult Learners", seemed pretty standard. The workshop was not. It was held in a...
Rising demand for educated workers and higher individual expectations have encouraged more young people to seek a university degree or similar qualification, according to the latest review of...
Unison could scupper the pay deal for all university staff as the union heads for make-or-break talks at its annual conference on Sunday. The deal, which could see some lecturers' salaries rise by 5....
South African president Thabo Mbeki this week came to Glasgow Caledonian University to name the Govan Mbeki health building in honour of his father, a veteran of the fight against apartheid. Govan...
Light-emitting wallpaper, computer systems for older people and fish immunology are among 11 Scottish projects to share more than £8 million from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. This...
A simulation laboratory to teach clinical operative skills has opened at the University of Liverpool. It allows students to learn intricate operative procedures by watching demonstrations on video...