AUT says schools must fuel growth The Association of University Teachers has estimated that an extra 670,000 student places must be created to reach 50 per cent participation by 2010. This would...
Much of the government's effort to expand higher education will focus on demand - increasing the number of people with the qualifications and aspirations to progress beyond school. It recently...
Oxford academics are freed from legal gag The High Court has upheld the freedom of Oxford University academics to criticise a philosopher's controversial book, despite the fact that the university...
Victims of workplace bullies are often the most popular members of the office, according to research at Hull University. Psychologist Penelope Smith-Lee Chong said her results had come as a surprise...
Gene therapy, the holy grail of the post-genome era, aims to render drugs and surgery unnecessary, altering the faulty genes in patients' cells by adding replacement strands of DNA. So finding the...
A team of American marine biologists has formed an unlikely alliance in its exploration of the dark waters under the frozen Antarctic sea ice. A film crew of 15 Weddell seals, which was initially the...
The Medical Research Council is "particularly successful" in building on intellectual property arising from its research institutes, a report has found. Its income stream from such activities grew...
A leading Scottish entrepreneur has urged students to enter a competition aimed at creating the future stars of Scotland's digital economy. Chris van der Kuyl, 32, president of Vis Entertainment,...
An appeal board at one of Spain's largest public universities has downgraded a recently appointed professor after a protest lodged by a colleague once seen as a leading ideologue of the Basque...
The European Union's Tempus programme, set up to aid the transition process in former eastern bloc countries, could be extended to universities in the West Bank and Gaza. Universities in north Africa...
Istanbul Turkey's courts are to decide whether a speech by US linguist Noam Chomsky in the southeastern city of Diyarbakyžr, monitored by local police, broke the law by supporting a Kurdish state and...
Eight of Spain's scientific bodies have said the system for funding biomedical research is in "chaos", with some projects deprived of expected state support for up to seven months. The associations,...
France's education minister Jack Lang has set up a commission to investigate racism and revisionism that for years have plagued the University of Lyon-III, Jean-Moulin. The Universities of Lyon-II...
US higher education leaders believe overcoming campus parochialism should be their chief post-September 11 imperative. Delegates to the annual conference of the American Council on Education...
Reactions to proposals to slash the number of South African universities from 36 to 21 through closures and mergers have ranged from positive to outright rebellion. The proposals keep formerly white...