The president of a Christian university in the Southern US has resigned after a student journalist assigned to write a profile about him discovered that he had never received his claimed masters...
Canada's Institutes of Health Research will accept funding applications for embryonic stem-cell research despite the lack of a definitive legal framework.
Police who found a cache of arms in a student's room at the University of Nairobi, said some had been used in robberies. The main suspect is still at large.
The European Commission has launched a biotechnology website for debates about the field and related issues. It also includes a database of experts, a library and other information. Detail: http://...
Italy's National Research Council, National Astrophysics Institute and the Italian Space Agency are under emergency government administration pending reorganisation. Last week, the head of the...
Students in Côte d'Ivoire's second largest university town protested against the invalidation of this academic year because of disruption caused by civil war.
The Conservatives' latest plan to win votes serves neither higher education nor society, says Margaret Hodge Last week saw another bungled attempt by the Tories to recapture voters' confidence. As...
"Feeling lucky, Jim?" David Leigh's question was more loaded than a gentle inquiry as to his brother's frame of mind and inclination to gamble. It was a ploy: an opening jab in psychological warfare...
Dame Bridget Ogilvie has had her differences with the Royal Society. She resigned as chair of the Committee on Public Understanding of Science in 2002, accusing the society of fighting a new strategy...
The government may cut funding for student places at newer universities that decide to charge the full £3,000 top-up fee in order to save its higher education policy from collapse, it emerged this...
It takes up to seven years for students to get jobs that pay a graduate premium, according to a study. And those from old universities have a head start over those from higher education colleges and...
Lecturers are demanding the right to refuse to teach students who express racist or fascist views, or who are known members of far-right political groups. The Association of University Teachers is...
Jim Wallace, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, has been appointed minister for enterprise and lifelong learning in the new Scottish cabinet. Mr Wallace, 48, made the axeing of tuition fees...
The UK head of Cambridge University's flagship enterprise partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said he would not be deterred from taking the project forwards by criticism from...
As it cosies up to corporate culture, this government is losing sight of what is true and valuable Drat that Charles Clarke. Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let everyone think he was...