Ditch your assumptions, says Anna Fazackerley, the UK has a lot to shout about when it comes to early career researchers, and there's not a comfy shoe in sight Higher Hopes We all know the stereotype...
The Middle East Studies Association and the American Association of University Professors have accused the Government of Iraq of doing little to ensure the safety of academics and have claimed that a...
The Irish Government has announced its biggest ever investment in science - at least €3.8 billion (£2.6 billion) over the next seven years. It is hoped that industry will contribute at least €2.5...
Cologne University has banned all Coca-Cola products from its campus after joining an international protest against the US soft drinks giant. The universities of Bonn and Wuppertal are likely to...
The University of South Australia was incorrectly described as the University of South Africa in the second reference to the institution in a story about Cranfield University (June 30).
The best-organised student movement since the apartheid era has had mixed success in its bid to change university investments. Jon Marcus reports Some 40 US universities have agreed to disinvest in...
An Austrian court has ordered the country's first private university to revoke an honorary degree it awarded to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Imadec University in Vienna gave the...
State support for Japan's 80-plus denationalised universities is about to be slashed further - by ¥60 billion (£300 million) over the next five years - as part of the finance ministry's ¥11.4...
Geoff Maslen reports on government moves to thwart extremism Melbourne and Sydney universities are considering proposals from the federal Education Department that they train Islamic clerics. The...
University staff in New Zealand can look forward to a pay rise after the Government admitted that the sector was underfunded. Academic staff will receive an extra 3 per cent, taking pay awards to...
Many scientists from the developing world who now live in the West want to share their technological expertise with their countries of origin. But too often they are thwarted in their attempts, a...
Universities are being criticised for investments linked to the Sudanese Government, which has been accused of genocide.
Academics grumble that students' parents are aggressive. But Raphael Salkie feels they aren't aggressive enough So our students' parents are getting aggressive, demanding to know how their children...
Here is Gary Link-Up. He is a very rare Englishman because he has actually scored in a penalty shoot-out. He is hosting a post-match discussion with Alan Handsome, Alan "land one on him" Shearer and...
Vice-chancellors were not exactly trumpeting their appointment of Alasdair Smith to the chair of the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association this week. Smith is embroiled in an industrial...