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...
The Korean cloning scandal could not have happened without the West's compliance, argues Robert Laughlin Here in Korea there is tremendous soul-searching, hand-wringing and blame-assigning over the...
I sometimes worry that I'm not English because I don't have a shaven head, tattoos and a compulsion to punch people. Actually that last one is not true. I am just too much of a coward to indulge it....
News that John Rushforth is to leave the Office for Fair Access to follow Sir Howard Newby, outgoing chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, to the University of the West...
What is going on at the Wellcome Trust? The organisation is now one of the biggest players in biomedical research, with a budget to rival that of the Medical Research Council. The much talked about...
For those of you who missed it - this week's big news is that Sir Menzies Campbell, ageing sprinter and Liberal Democrat MP for North East Fife, has won the leadership election. After a tough battle...
PILGRIMAGE - THE SACRED JOURNEY The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Architecture, until April 19 The growth of religious extremism and hostility in the modern world is alarming. It is partly founded on...
The unions' move to a ballot over industrial action in their quest for better pay is premature, writes Ucea chair Geoffrey Copland Vice-chancellors have been left disappointed and disillusioned by...
Paranoia about Muslim 'extremists' has seen the West trample on the very rights it claims to uphold, argues Abdul Wahid Is there an "extremist" under your bed? Worse still, a Muslim one? The...
The prospect of paying for his kids to get poor teaching leads Tim Birkhead to rethink the need to train lecturers It is remarkable how having one's own offspring at university changes your view of...
If drizzly old Blighty is getting you down, get networking and do your homework on research hot spots. But don't plan for a one-way overseas trip - you may want to come home, says Harriet Swain...