Australian universities have been told not to treat India as another market from which to attract fee-paying students. Glyn Davis, chair of Australia's Group of Eight research-intensive universities...
Academic freedom is under threat in even the most modern democratic nations, John Sexton, president of New York University, warned this week. He told a joint meeting of the New York-based Scholars at...
US universities that accept federal funding must allow military recruiters on their campuses even if they object to the military's ban on openly gay people, the Supreme Court has ruled. The court...
Sweden's education ministry is drawing up plans that would effectively force universities and colleges of higher education to investigate every allegation of cheating by academic staff. The...
European education ministers are this week considering how to persuade governments in southeastern Europe and the western Balkans to give universities more autonomy and allow more co-operation with...
University lecturers in Thailand are playing a key role in undermining the popularity of Thaksin Shinawatra, the Prime Minister. Academics have queued up to denounce the Prime Minister after his...
French students are threatening more protests over job contracts that allow people under 26 to be fired more easily after President Jacques Chirac this week backed their introduction. The student...
The American Association of University Professors has protested that FBI apologies are inadequate for the behaviour of two sheriff's deputies assisting the bureau's Joint Terrorism Task Force after...
Tuck Business School at Dartmouth College is to offer up to 12 MBA scholarships for European students.
Government shortsightedness and contempt is destroying our once-great education system, argues Peter Atkins The combination of misunderstanding, pettiness, shortsightedness and contempt that drives...
There are 21 copies of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto on our library shelves and 13 copies of Capital . The shelves are pretty much where they stay. From time to time, I glance at how many have been...
How much might Natfhe members be offered to be bussed into old universities past jeering Association of University Teachers' picket lines? It is a prospect raised by one vice-chancellor who...
Ever-more imaginative names for university libraries have been dreamt up to impress potential students: "learning resource centres"; "learning labs"; "advanced study facilities" (OK, we made that one...
It seems the Tories have not forgotten about science after all. Ever since Robert Key, the generously sized choral-singing MP for Salisbury, was moved from the post last year, no one in the party has...
Officials at the Higher Education Funding Council for England have revealed that as part of their annual conference next month, there will be presentations involving students to show "HE in action"....