Plans for a new year party in the philological faculty of the Turkmen State University produced an unpleasant surprise for the dean; he was criticised on state TV for "ignoring national traditions"....
Serbia's academics have discovered that replacing a highly political piece of legislation - the 1998 University Law - is insufficient to reform a Communist-era system that fell victim to the...
Nashville Decades of court-ordered desegregation and racial quotas at Tennessee's public colleges and universities are set to end after the settlement of a 32-year legal action. Quotas will end...
Two former rectors of the University of Palermo face demands for the return of €8 million (£5 million) for hundreds of allegedly unjustified promotions and pay increases. Mass promotions in...
The British Library Newspaper Library's catalogue of more than 50,000 newspaper and periodical title holdings in Colindale has been published on the web. The catalogue includes all United Kingdom...
CERAM Sophia Antipolis, the French graduate school of management and technology, and the Entrepreneurship Centre of Cambridge University have agreed to cooperate in teaching and research. The aim of...
Apple has refocused on education in the European market, launching a strategy at BETT2001 in London this week. The computer company, which is suffering from falling sales, has created two European...
Washington state's largest private scholarship programme is being established through a $100 million (£66.5 million) gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. A partnership between the...
Freefund.com - a commercial website that gave students free access to information on scholarships and bursaries - has folded its business in the UK following "financial difficulties". The company was...
The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee has upgraded its website to broaden its appeal and to provide easier access for staff and students to university activities. Among new features are pages...
A graphic design expert has used digital technology to "democratise" art in a year-long project at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. Marty St James, a video artist and senior...
Wales is on track to export entrepreneurial education across the globe by launching a unique online enterprise college. The £6.5 million venture is being set up by Glamorgan University in association...
Sir Christopher Frayling says art and design practitioners are still victims of a Victorian hierarchy. At my very first meeting of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (as it was then...
Whatever else the first Blair administration is remembered for, its devolution of power to new assemblies and parliaments in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh is guaranteed a place in the history books...
An independent and open inquiry into the health effects of depleted uranium munitions is an appropriate project for the Royal Society. And it is possible that the group, being led by Brian Spratt,...