For almost 12 months now I have been directing the Institute of Historical Research, within London's Senate House, a monumental 1930s building that, it is rumoured, would have been Hitler's...
Nato air attacks on targets in Serbia have damaged the faculties of law and economics at the University of Nis, and the medical faculty at the University of Belgrade. Universities have been closed...
The second eruption of Mount Cameroon in three weeks has led to the evacuation of the anglophone University of Buea in the Republic of Cameroon. Students and staff have taken refuge in Douala, the...
Encyclopedia Britannica has halved the price of its standard CD-Rom edition from Pounds 99 to Pounds 49. Since the company was bought by Swiss financier Jacob Safra in 1996, it has fought a brutal...
For the first time in its 98-year history, the Nobel Committee for Physics has appointed a woman - Cecilia Jarlskog, professor of theoretical particle physics at Lund University - as its chair. The...
The Universite Nationale at Bouake in the Cote d'Ivoire has been closed and students ordered to return home indefinitely following clashes between protesting students, those opposed to a boycott of...
Newbury College has finalised a Pounds 9 million private finance initiative that will provide it with new teaching accommodation. The two-storey 8,500 square metre building will include a residential...
* The Open University plans to offer access courses to people who lack formal qualifications but want to enter higher education.
(Photograph) - In a spin: Jim Humphrey, a part-time lecturer at Tonbridge Adult Education Centre, has made a miniature spinning top that he hopes will make it into the Guinness Book of Records as the...
(Photograph) - Smoke signals: Anthony McAleese, a chemistry postgraduate, holds an impromptu tutorial with 13-year-old Isla Ferguson as part of Edinburgh University's work with teenagers for the...
(Photograph) - Leap of faith: one of 12 Plymouth University students who abseiled down the city's civic center to raise money to send a truckload of aid to an orphanage in Romania. Photograph: Mike...
At least seven universities would be denied their university status if they had to apply for the title under tough new criteria proposed by the Quality Assurance Agency. Under confidential plans...
The first concrete steps towards a national post-16 qualifications framework will be taken this month as examinations bodies submit their awards for accreditation. The Qualifications and Curriculum...
A private members bill calling for an independent pay-review body for academic and academic-related staff has received its first reading in the House of Lords. The bill was submitted by Labour peer...
(Photograph) - * Sir Tom Farmer (above), chairman and chief executive of Kwik-Fit, has gone on a treadmill to help launch a five-year, Pounds 5 million development campaign at Queen Margaret...