The Football Association is leaving no stone, or turf, unturned in its strategy to win back the World Cup - or any major international trophy for that matter. It has turned to the science of surfaces...
The Natural Environment Research Council admitted last week that it could have handled last year's financial crisis better. The council was called before the Commons science and technology committee...
A yellow honeycomb logo represents a network that has rapidly established itself in UK higher education over the past three years. Through its work with staff to aid and improve their teaching it has...
Wood mice use a "Hansel and Gretel" approach to find their way around while out exploring, according to Oxford University researchers, writes Natasha Gilbert. David Macdonald and Pavel Stopka of...
A drop in recruitment of overseas students to universities in New Zealand and Australia due to the Sars epidemic could have a devastating knock-on effect for the institutions' incomes. The...
The University of Wi****ersrand is close to appointing Rhodes scholar and mathematician Loyiso Nongxa as its first black vice-chancellor. Professor Nongxa is currently acting vice-chancellor of the...
The Italian government is to finance 3,500 extra Socrates/ Erasmus scholarships, bringing the total to 14,000. It will also more than double research grants to a total of 8,000. The €75 million (£26...
Mauritanian security forces have arrested students and university lecturers regarded as sympathetic to the Ba'ath Party of Saddam Hussein. Police claim pro-Iraqi elements in the university were...
The City Hall has launched a trilingual website for foreign students who want to study in and around the French capital. It advises on general and academic life in the region, learning French, visas...
The Thai cabinet has approved new funding of Baht464 million (£6,776,000) for research and development of biotechnology projects, to be administered through the National Centre for Genetic...
Two groups of Croatian doctors and nurses are to take a specially designed 14-week course in emergency medicine at the University of Melbourne.
Malaysia's private institutions of higher education are to be responsible for the quality of their own courses under a new self-assessment scheme introduced by the National Accreditation Board.
Italian rectors have opened a Brussels office to help universities to make the most of European Union projects and to maintain contact with decision makers.
Academics in Thailand are trying to break new ground in the study of regional history to defuse national rivalries. They blame an outbreak of anti-Thai rioting in Cambodia's capital city and a rift...
Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's honeymoon period is over, say the country's university lecturers. They say he has broken promises to increase their pay and is, instead, following...