United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan hopes the offer of more than $100 million (Pounds 64 million) in grants for African universities from four prestigious American philanthropic organisations...
A new report has urged the Australian government to work more closely with India in the development of information technology products. The report by Australia's overseas export organisation Austrade...
The benchmarking statements for 22 subjects just produced by the Quality Assurance Agency (back page) are not easy reading. But no one can claim that they have been wished on academe by a hostile...
Business and management course suppliers will have to adapt to the growing shortage of top educators, predicts Paul Danos The booming global economy demands well-trained and confident business...
The new quality assurance system set out for universities this week is "dangerously prescriptive" and could mean, in effect, a national curriculum, say its critics. The Quality Assurance Agency has...
Benchmarks cover 22 subject areas, ranging from six pages for accounting to 32 pages for law. They make explicit the "techniques and skills" expected of graduates and "the intellectual demand and...
The rector of a university in La Paz, the Bolivian capital, is threatening legal action to block government plans to open a new university on terms that he claims breach constitutional guarantees of...
United Kingdom spending on academic staff is among the lowest in the developed world, the Association of University Teachers revealed today on the eve of its annual council meeting, writes Phil Baty...
The Islamic An Nahdah party won the student council elections at Birzeit University last week with 1,388 votes (22 seats) over the pro-Fatah Jerusalem Bloc, which secured 1,0 votes (20 seats).
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH www.ma.hw.ac.uk/ RSE/index.htm Wellcome Trust Research Workshops The Royal Society of Edinburgh invites applications for grants of up to Pounds 2500 in support of...
The Malaysian government is introducing a scheme for parents to save money for their children's higher education. Parents can save on a monthly or daily basis.
Students clashed violently with riot police on the campus of the University of Jordan as elections were held for the university's student council on April 25. Ten arrests were made. The majority of...
The number of Chinese students applying for overseas study has reached unprecedented proportions, according to the Chinese ministry of education. Parents are prepared to spend their life savings on...
A molecular Achilles heel of the deadly bug that causes tuberculosis has been exposed. Scientists have been able to render Mycobacterium tuberculosis harmless by blocking the formation of a single...
Heriot-Watt University and Limerick Institute of Technology are to sever their links after being accused of "dumbing down" university-validated courses at Limerick. Both institutions deny the...