Australian vice-chancellors are seeking an independent national body to be responsible for audits of university quality systems. Their committee has proposed forming a private, non-profit firm with...
Academic staff at the University of Botswana struck for a day this month with support staff and students joining the action in solidarity. Since the university was formed in 1982, there have been...
Students in 60 German university towns have launched a nationwide petition demanding a definitive ban on student fees. It calls for "fees-free study" and demands that the ruling Social Democrats (SPD...
(Photograph) - Greek students wave Greek flags at a checkpoint dividing the island during a protest to mark the anniversary of the declaration of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The island...
Israel's Council for Higher Education will decide next week whether to grant a licence to Inter College, Derby University's franchise partner in Israel. Avi Bitan, general manager of Inter College in...
The Italian government has approved a bill that radically curtails academics' freedom to engage in private work, sets much higher workloads and imposes unprecedented evaluation, controls and...
Some of the great masterpieces of the golden age of Italian cinema have been painstakingly restored and can now be projected in close-to-original quality, thanks to Italy's National School of...
In the United States, most institutions have made preparations to head off the millennium computer bug, with one notable exception - universities. According to a US department of education report, at...
(Photograph) - Storm force: Graham Field and Paul Spugeon have been developing Lego Mindstorm kits that enable children to build robots from bricks, including a central intelligence brick with its...
The BBC has hired the University of Leeds to help train its managers in digital media. Leeds has developed an MA in media management, to be taught partly over the internet, designed to help middle-...
Twelve leading scientific and scholarly publishers are collaborating on a reference-linking initiative that will change the way scientists use the internet for research. The initiative will allow...
* A consortium of universities in the Northeast has secured Pounds 1.7 million from the Higher Education Funding Council to encourage more young people to enter higher education.
The University of Warwick has teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States to launch a business management centre that will specialise in electronic commerce. The $40 million centre...
A two-year dental training partnership project that uses video, computers and the web to deliver course material any time, any where has been launched in Manchester. The DentalTec project is a...
A specialist lawyer has warned Scotland's universities to guard against complacency over the ownership of potentially lucrative ideas from staff and students. Fiona Nicolson, who heads the...