Durban South African universities began to jostle for position after last week's release of a government report urging a major shake-up of higher education. The report, by the Council on Higher...
The value of an honorary degree has been questioned before but rarely has one been rejected in favour of the virtual variety. Friends and former colleagues of social worker Eric Hardy have secured...
Students in southern Brazil are helping 2,200 workers, police and military forces to combat an oil spill described as the country's worst environmental disaster for 25 years. An estimated 25,143...
The threat of cuts and even institution closures is stirring the sleepy, safe world of Japanese academia. Charles Jannuzi and Bern Mulvey report In sharp contrast with Japan's image as a nation known...
Serbian authorities loyal to Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic have stepped up a violent campaign against opponents, according to Human Rights Watch. In the past six weeks, police have beaten...
Anti-prostitution police patrolling top hotels in the capital cities of the two Congos have arrested several female students of medicine and pharmacy who have been slipping sleeping pills into the...
Dusseldorf East German universities have strongly improved their research performance in the past five years and are now competing on a nearly even footing with their western competitors, according...
Rome A long-running feud between two of Italy's most eminent professors has developed into a court battle for slander, with blow-by-blow coverage in the national press. One contender has been awarded...
Growing numbers of young Estonian men want to complete their national service before taking up university places - more than the armed forces may be able to accommodate. The problem has been caused...
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has asked the Copyright Tribunal to review the terms and conditions of the Higher Education Copyright Arrangement instead of entering into...
Peter Mandelson, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, has become the first student of the Northern Ireland Centre for E-Business (NICeB), the University of Ulster's online business centre. Mr...
He may have composed one of the most famous lullabies, but it seems that Johannes Brahms seldom enjoyed a peaceful night himself. Evidence has emerged from a host of biographical references that the...
European visions of an e-commerce-enabled information society may fade away unless Europe addresses serious shortages of physics teachers, according to a leading academic. Ken Pounds, professor of...
Rome A week-long meeting in Rome of more than 300 students from 105 European universities last week failed to meet its objective of drawing up an international "Magna Carta" of student rights. Paid...
A multimillion-pound start-up company based at the University of Essex was launched last week with the aim of removing bottlenecks from the world's global optical networks. Ilotron is a...