Academics can strike it rich when they commercialise their innovations, but is it best to seek professional help or go it alone? asks Jessica Shepherd Researchers who make millions of pounds from...
The world's leading medical journal editors have rejected proposals for stricter rules governing the publication of research sponsored by pharmaceutical companies. The international committee of...
The student union at Middlesex University has complained to the Commission for Racial Equality about the university's plans to close its history course, which threatens the future of its black...
One of London's leading medical schools has warned that it faces potential ruin if the Government reneges on major hospital redevelopment plans. The Government has confirmed that it is reconsidering...
Edinburgh University music students and researchers now have access to rare harpsichords dating from the 16th to the early 19th century, thanks to retired London doctor Rodger Mirrey. He has donated...
Initial teacher training in Wales is set for a radical shake-up that could bring a 50 per cent cut in student numbers, writes Tony Tysome. A report commissioned by the Welsh Assembly published last...
Doncaster College is the latest further education institution to declare plans to bid for university status. David Gates, its principal, confirmed this week that the college was aiming for a...
Almost half the Chinese students who took a English language test required for permanent residency visas in Australia failed, despite having completed their courses over the previous 12 months. Last...
Hong Kong's gradual move away from the British system of education and toward American and mainland Chinese models is leading to a proliferation of associate degrees. By 2009, university degrees will...
The New Zealand Labour government's pre-election promise to abolish all interest charges on student loans will come into effect on April 1 this year. Opposition politicians have called it "free money...
President George W. Bush has used a gathering of university presidents to launch a $114 million campaign to expand the teaching of Arabic, Urdu and Farsi. The goal of the National Security Language...
Undercover agents for animal rights organisations have produced damning video footage of animal abuse unrelated to scientific experimentation in a US university laboratory. But the revelations have...
Members of the panel who will decide which German universities will be named the country's five "elite" institutions have rejected suggestions that political manoeuvres have skewed the process. A...
France's National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) is in crisis following the resignation of its president, the appointment of a successor, the dismissal of its director-general and a mass revolt...
Israel's acting prime minister has put higher tuition fees back on to the political agenda as the country prepares for a general election. Finance minister Ehud Olmert argued that increased fees...