Fierce competition for staff in the run-up to the research assessment exercise is making it difficult for universities to fill job vacancies, employers reported this week. A quarter of higher...
British students are continuing to shun universities in other European countries, according to figures from the Europe-wide student exchange scheme. Despite rising numbers of students from other...
Researchers at Wolverhampton University are working on the next big thing in computers - pervasive computing. The future lies in small networks of intelligent wireless systems, says Elena Gaura,...
Researchers are under such pressure to publish papers in top journals that they are being driven to fraudulent practices, it was claimed last week. Leading academics argued that more researchers were...
Authorities in French-speaking Belgium will extend consultation on a new law limiting the number of foreign students enrolling on undergraduate courses including veterinary medicine and physiotherapy...
A mistake in the scoring of the principal university admissions exam has thrown the whole process into chaos only days before US high school students were to learn whether they had been admitted to...
A study by the Mexican Academy of Sciences has revealed a deeply entrenched culture of cheating among a large proportion of scientists, who place ethics way down their list of priorities. Forty per...
Research institutions in the Czech Republic that fail to come up to scratch will face closure under planned changes to the way science is funded in the country. A Research and Development Council...
In the wake of angry nationwide protests, Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France, has said he is prepared to improve the Contrat Première Embauche , the young people's employment contract...
Medical research into brain-damaged HIV patients at Gothenburg University's world renowned Sahlgren Academy has been on hold since last autumn after the US National Institutes of Health suspended...
A World Bank report has urged governments in Africa to resist the idea that expansion of higher education exacerbates the brain drain problem, reports Wachira Kigotho in Nairobi. David Bloom,...
After years of enrolment growth, the number of local and foreign students taking MBAs in Australia has dropped by more than 20 per cent since 2003. The trend is not unique to Australia. Business...
Fiction should be about telling good stories, not championing scientific accuracy, insists Philip Pullman Robert May, the former chief scientific adviser to the Government, in his recent article in...
V For Vendetta In cinemas nationwide The reviews of V for Vendetta have been pretty much "C is for crap". The movie adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Lloyd's graphic serial/novel looks doomed for the...
For months, the Liberal Democrats could not find anyone to champion higher education despite their eagerness to make their stance against top-up fees a trump card. But now, everyone will want the job...