Leading scientists this week accused the Department for International Development of having a "woefully inadequate" approach to research. In a submission to the inquiry into the government department...
Centres of scientific excellence could be created in Scotland drawing on talent from universities, research institutes, government agencies and the National Health Service. The Scottish Science...
The Scottish higher and further education funding councils may have to move from Edinburgh as part of the Scottish Executive's drive to relocate public-sector jobs around the country. Tavish Scott,...
Health services are failing to acknowledge the greater propensity to smoke among people with mental health problems and offering inadequate support to help them quit, an Ulster University researcher...
An online search engine that provides free access to more than half a million academic research papers worldwide is also giving universities a better idea of their total published research activity....
The Joint Information Systems Committee is running plagiarism-busting workshops across the country. At one workshop, 12 participants at Edinburgh's Telford College were each given an essay title and...
Cumbria may have lower than average crime figures, but forensic science students at the University of Central Lancashire never want for practical hands-on experience of dealing with a brutal murder....
Audrey Mullender will be the first woman to head troubled Ruskin College in Oxford when she takes up her post as principal in April. Professor Mullender, currently chair of the faculty of social...
Germany aims to create a university to rival Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard. The ruling Social Democratic Party admits that not even Germany's oldest university, Heidelberg, can compete at a global...
Finnish ministers are about to call time on students who take too long to complete their degrees. A working group said that faster graduation was essential because in the next ten years more people...
Morocco's universities are in the first year of far-reaching reforms that aim to bring them into line with Europe and offer students increased flexibility. While welcoming the changes, lecturers...
Israel's universities have returned to psychometric testing after a year using an admissions system aimed at encouraging students from disadvantaged backgrounds. An evaluation of the system found it...
An attempt by Silvio Berlusconi's government to resolve job discrimination against foreign-language lecturers with a decree issued just as Italy's presidency of the European Union ended has been...
A business-backed lobbying organisation has used a little-known law intended to stop the use of government money for "junk science" to cast doubt on a study on climate change. The government has been...
Europe's largest university will survive for only three more years unless state funding is substantially increased. Giuseppe D'Ascenzo, rector of Rome's La Sapienza University, which has about 150,...