The training of 'creative thinkers' is threatened by cost-cutting, says Tony Tysome Drama academics fear that funding changes to their discipline could undo much of its development and growth of the...
The Royal Shakespeare Company, once at the cutting edge of drama, needs to remake its case as an institution worthy of academics' attention, a researcher and former RSC employee argues in a new book...
US universities and colleges are increasingly formalising the workload that falls to the spouses of their presidents by putting them on the payroll. Nearly a quarter of presidential spouses surveyed...
Poor pay, corruption, inadequate government funding, student unrest and high staff turnover are taking their toll on Zimbabwe University. A month-long strike by lecturers and other workers at the...
South Africa's universities are facing an identity crisis after changes to the sector that have reduced the number of institutions from 36 to 23 and introduced new names for many universities. A...
The Irish government is considering taking legal action against the European University of Ireland (EUI) which operates out of an accommodation address in a run-down part of Dublin. The company has a...
Spanish stem-cell research is likely to get more encouragement from the incoming socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, following the confused and sometimes hostile stance adopted by...
The conviction of a Moscow arms control researcher for high treason has raised fears of renewed Soviet-style restrictions on academic freedom and foreign links. Igor Sutyagin of Moscow's USA-Canada...
François Fillon, France's new minister for education and research, has given in to researchers' demands to restore axed jobs. Last week he announced the creation of 1,550 tenured posts between now...
Chinese students are to be issued with handbooks to help them cope with psychological problems as part of a drive to tackle a growing problem of mental illness in young people.
A Scottish prince and a Czech university deputy rector are among the members of the Czech Republic's Association of the Unaffiliated, the newest political party to take part in this year's European...
Political leaders from Italy and Croatia have discussed plans to set up an Istrian University in the heartland of Croatia's ethnic Italian minority.
Security agents clashed with students and lecturers on the streets of the Liberian capital during protests over nonpayment of bursaries and scholarships and months of salary arrears. United Nations...
A one-year English-language medium MBA programme is to be launched at St Gallen University in the German-speaking zone of Switzerland in January 2005.
Margaret Sharp anticipates an easy ride for the higher education bill in the Lords - but Offa remains a sticking point With Easter past, the higher education bill comes to the Lords for its second...