Women suffering stress over the Christmas dinner and men fighting with one another is nothing new during the festive season in Scotland, a Dundee University professor has revealed. Callum Brown,...
A rates revamp could save Northern Ireland's two universities more than Pounds 5 million a year, it has emerged. Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University are exempt from the local rates...
Drummond Bone, vice-chancellor of Liverpool University, has been appointed president of Universities UK. He will replace Ivor Crewe, who is vice-chancellor of Essex University, on August 1. Professor...
A law that aims to bring higher education in Serbia closer to European norms is scheduled to come before the Serbian Parliament early next year. The reforms are critical to Serbia's inclusion in the...
South African universities are under fire for paying some of their vice-chancellors more than President Thabo Mbeki, especially as those who are paid the most head smaller institutions that are...
Italian taxpayers unable to choose between church and state may be given a third option when they complete their tax returns. Existing tax law allows them to allocate 0.8 per cent of their direct tax...
Russia's Orthodox clerics tend to view the internet as a potential weapon of Satan, but Andrey Kurayev, who is also a lecturer at Moscow State University, wants to find the web a patron saint. Mr...
The US Federal Elections Commission is investigating allegations that 12 universities broke the rules governing electoral campaigning by hosting filmmaker Michael Moore (pictured) and his anti-Bush...
Brazil plans a massive expansion of distance learning in 2005 to address a teacher shortage and make education more accessible. The Government plans to spend R$20 million (£2.6 million) on distance-...
Australia's main foreign student recruitment agency is to abandon non-profitable markets and consolidate its activities in the main source countries. Facing its third loss-making year, IDP Education...
Student protests over proposals to increase the cost of government-backed loans have earned the Kazakh education minister a presidential dressing-down and have cost his deputy her job. Plans...
Four containers packed with laboratory equipment, reference books and student textbooks valued at $6 million (£3.08 million) are due to arrive in Iraq by the end of the month as part of an...
The European Union and Israel are to negotiate a higher education agreement under a draft general action plan under discussion between Tel Aviv and Brussels. Talks will aim at synchronising EU and...
The Australian National University is to sue insurers to gain higher compensation after a bushfire destroyed much of its Mt Stromlo Observatory almost two years ago. Negotiations with insurers have...
More than 1,500 students at the Benin University, many in their final year, have been expelled over the past two weeks in a clampdown on forged school leaving certificates and other irregularities.