Universities have given a cautious welcome to a watershed report on the future of New Zealand's higher education institutions. The Tertiary Education Advisory Commission has advised the government to...
Nigeria's university community has welcomed legal action in the United States against three of the country's former military rulers. Generals Ibrahim Babangida, Muhammadu Buhari and Abdulsalaami...
South Africa's student financial aid scheme, which this year will spend R600 million (£26 million) supporting more than 81,000 needy scholars, is to be reviewed under education minister Kader Asmal's...
Norway is to increase the maximum grant available to full-time students by almost 20 per cent to NKr80,000 (£6,200) a year -but there are strings attached. Currently, students receive 30 per cent of...
A dawn raid has ended a two-day student occupation of several faculties at Rome's La Sapienza University, Europe's largest campus. Leftwing students were protesting against a 70 per cent increase in...
The Gulf states are in search of a university system that keeps pace with their prosperity and populations but does not destroy their Arab heritage, a Unesco conference in Oman heard last week. The...
Strikes and demonstrations by students and staff at universities specialising in arts and human sciences have highlighted their growing indignation at lack of resources. Last week, 1,300 students and...
Austrian education minister Elisabeth Gehrer has presented the final proposals for the planned introduction of tuition fees for all students from autumn. According to the plan, students from Austria...
An international network of universities is preparing a series of special online courses largely geared at the Asian market. A meeting of the ten members of the Global University Alliance in...
Tim Hutchings, online learning programme manager at the University of Glamorgan, reflects on the launch of Europe's largest online learning initiative, Enterprise College Wales. </a>
Italy is launching a project for teaching art restoration and conservation through the internet. VIRartis (Virtual Art Restoration Training and Information School) will offer courses aimed at...
Researchers at the University of Teesside who are studying age discrimination warn that companies should employ older workers now to safeguard their future. Catherine McCauley-Smith, who is managing...
Higher education should embrace the "constructive possibilities and achievable development" offered in the middle ground of the knowledge economy, according to Sir David Watson, director of Brighton...
Heriot-Watt University is rolling out its e-learning Scholar system to an international audience. It believes the move could boost overseas student recruitment to the United Kingdom. This is the...
User-centric forum Paul Priestman, founding partner in the award-winning design agency Priestman Goode, will give the keynote speech "What can digital media design learn from physical design?" at the...