France's biggest student social insurance society, tainted by fraud and corruption and the subject of official investigations for the past two years, has been relaunched with a new name and statutory...
Darijusz Ratajczak, a Polish history lecturer, has been dismissed from his post at the Opole University and banned from academic teaching for three years. A university disciplinary commission ruled...
It is becoming apparent that the government's decision to exclude higher education from plans to restructure post-16 education through the Learning and Skills bill is a serious shortcoming (page 4)....
Andrew Oswald's Soapbox article last week calling on the Universities Supperannuation Scheme to increase members' pensions has attracted a flurry of support (Letters, opposite). Staff at universities...
Was the world declaration on Education For All more than a vision? asks Angela Little on the eve of the declaration's review Next week in Dakar, Senegal, 900 educationists, donors, non-governmental...
Extra government funds will be channelled into three major science initiatives in sustainable land use, post-genomics and information technology if advice from the research councils is followed. The...
South African education minister Kader Asmal has launched an attack on "global universities" that see developing countries as no more than new markets. Delivering the address at a four-day conference...
Funding chiefs are to recognise the burden of accountability faced by institutions. A report commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England will suggest ways of rationalising...
Top-rated research departments could lose their 5* grade if they fail to provide adequate research training, funding chiefs have warned. Research funding would be explicitly linked to the quality of...
A lecturers' union has called for an immediate halt to the research assessment exercise because of "inherent discrimination", writes Harriet Swain. The call, from the Association of University...
Overseas and European Union students are in the majority at three London higher education institutions and make up more than 40 per cent of the student body at five. Higher Education Statistics...
Universities and colleges that fail to maintain an adequate operating surplus should raise their targets, the funding council announced last week. At present, the Higher Education Funding Council for...
Royal Holloway College, London is attempting to bring science to life for secondary pupils by staging its own murder mystery. More than 100 Year 10 students will be presented with the gory details of...
The Scottish Trades Union Congress this week unanimously backed a motion from the Association of University Teachers calling for codes of conduct on student employment to be agreed between...
An equal opportunities action group is to be established by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals and the Standing Conference of...