Talks on the future of the university system have got under way at the French education ministry, where all representative bodies, unions, committees and associations have been invited to help draw...
Ireland's expanding private college sector has been dealt a second blow within a year by Northern Ireland education minister Michael Ancram's announcement that fees and maintenance grants for...
Retired professor and art expert Anthony Melnikas, the veteran researcher accused of cutting pages from a Vatican manuscript with a penknife and later attempting to sell them to a rare book dealer,...
At tiny Lesley College, in the shadow of Harvard University, an anthropologist has been lecturing his audience about the impact of eye contact and body language - and how to dress for television...
Improving the health of Filipino divers is the aim of research under way at Bangor University's department of radiography education. Decompression sickness is a major problem among Asian divers who,...
A student's brainwave has given dairies an electronic nose for business. It also won him the Business and Technology Education Council student of the year award. Nicholas Aikenhead saw an...
Researchers at Southampton University are investigating whether the seeds of osteoporosis are sown in early life. The Wellcome Trust has awarded more than Pounds 40,000 to the Medical Research...
Seven scientists are plunging to earth in an overloaded hot air balloon. Six of them must jump out if the balloon is to be light enough for just one to float to safety. But who should be the lucky...
Thes reporters look at the increased pressure for improved childcare in universities. Public service union Unison is taking Oxford Brookes University to an industrial tribunal as part of its campaign...
Glasgow Caledonian University has launched the country's first accelerated postgraduate degree for physiotherapy. A qualification to practise physiotherapy usually comes through a three-year degree...
The Scottish Office is pressing for an increase in part-time education amid calls for a better deal for part-timers in terms of student support and course quality assurance. Ed Weeple, Scottish...
Thes reporters look at the increased pressure for improved childcare in universities The experiences of those who run existing campus-based childcare facilities and the parents who use them...
Thes reporters look at the increased pressure for improved childcare in universities. Three unions have teamed up to launch a campaign for more workplace nurseries in universities and colleges. The...
Public sector laboratories are braced for 12 months of introspection following the Government's publication of its timetable for reviewing each one by the end of the year, writes Aisling Irwin....
Better late than never. The best part of a decade since it was first proposed, the Oxford Master in Business Administration course will become a reality next autumn with the arrival of the first...