North of Kuwait City towards the Iraqi border, the road rises over the Mutlaa Ridge, a sandstone scarp that provides the only relief in the flat desert landscape. Here, the final, bloody and one-...
Nobody can dismiss the impact of communications technologies and private provision on global higher education, argues Brenda Gourley. "Unbundling" and "outsourcing" are two words that have become...
Addis Abba Two students have died in clashes with Ethiopian riot police at the University of Addis Ababa in protests over how the university is guarded. The government told students to end a weeklong...
One student died and at least 28 were injured during three days of riots at the University of Zimbabwe last week. Inadequate grants and political tensions were blamed for the clashes, which began on...
Nationwide student protests over cuts to higher education spending in Australia descended into violence at the University of Melbourne last week. The National Union of Students had called for the day...
American tobacco companies are attempting to lure university students into becoming smokers, according to two studies. The studies, both by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, suggest...
A Canadian philosophy professor is aiming to minimise the risks of advances in biotechnology and genetic manipulation by introducing an ethical dimension. At the University of Guelph, where scores of...
Salzburg University has unveiled plans for an extensive campus that should help strengthen the reputation of the city - the birthplace of Mozart - as a centre of culture. The city of Salzburg has...
Moscow's universities, which once attracted students from across the Soviet Union, are struggling to recruit from outside the city's immediate vicinity. Under the Soviet regime, about 25 per cent of...
Rodolfo Zich, rector of Turin Polytechnic, has accused Italian private industry of investing too little in scientific research. "Private investment in Italy is weak," he said at the inauguration of...
Spates of e-road rage are forecast if the popularity of shopping over the internet keeps growing at its current rate. The prediction is just one conclusion of a detailed report on the impact of e-...
Retail therapy: John Clare, chief executive of the Dixons electronics stores, has announced funding for a new chair of entrepreneurship and innovation in Edinburgh University's school of management...
Forget Dolly the sheep - researchers at Glasgow and Edinburgh universities are developing new software to allow animation and games companies to "clone" real people to create realistic animations....
The learning landscape will be refashioned by technology to deliver much more "just-in-time" knowledge, delegates at the 20th world conference on open and distance education heard. Lecturers standing...
Academics need to take stock of their role and support public interest in history, writes Simon Ditchfield. There is nothing like a good crisis to concentrate the mind. The closure of Luton...