With few African countries able to afford research universities, a developmental focus for the Commonwealth should be creating regional research institutions for clusters of countries, the 16th...
Project offers unrestricted access to the internet, reports Stephen Strauss A Canadian university research project has begun to strike a blow against the mounting efforts by authoritarian governments...
China has overtaken Japan in research and development spending, making it the world's second highest national research spender, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has claimed...
Members of institutional review boards at US universities continue to have financial conflicts of interest, raising questions about their objectivity when evaluating the ethics and safety of research...
Protest stopped after 53 days as Security Council is forced to hear about the repression in Belarus. Vera Rich reports Alexander Kazulin, the former rector of the Belarussian State University, last...
A Californian student struggling to pay his university tuition fees has offered patrons an investment he says is a sure thing: himself, writes Jon Marcus. Ron Steen, who is 19, wants someone to...
Physics professor Metin Tolan of Dormund University is taking a professional interest in the film Casino Royale - because he conducts scientific analyses of the Bond movies. Professor Tolan's...
Demand from students for online courses at Open Universities Australia could soon outstrip the supply from current providers. The OUA, the Australian equivalent of the UK's Open University, is a...
RAE changes, foundation degrees and widening access will be critical to UK economic success, says Bill Rammell I have the best job in Government outside the Cabinet. That was forcefully brought home...
After teaching in a university for more than 30 years, I will soon reach retirement age. But why should I be compelled to go? I like my students; I enjoy doing research. Being forced to retire is...
Most would make do with a carriage clock. But Peter Knight has received perhaps the most bizarre retirement gift in higher education history. The former vice-chancellor of the University of Central...
So much for spreading season's greetings to all and sundry. The Christmas cards sent via e-mail from Universities UK state "this communication is strictly confidential and legally privileged..." And...
How far would you go to plug your university? Lisa Fisher, brand manager at Sheffield Hallam University, took three months off work to explore the wonders of South America. She packed only a passport...
The vice-chancellors of Sussex and Brighton universities, Alasdair Smith and Julian Crampton, raised laughs with their honesty at the Society for Research into Higher Education conference last week....
Once an academic, always an academic. The Latvian president, who until 1999 was a psychology professor at the University of Montreal, is to spend the Christmas break writing a book on Latvian folk...