A director-general is to be appointed by the Russell Group of research universities as part of a "step change" in its lobbying ahead of the Government's 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review. The group...
Lecturers' unions and vice-chancellors warned against universities sponsoring new city academies as it emerged that four institutions are in talks with the Government about sponsoring schools, writes...
Sir Richard Sykes, rector of Imperial College London, leapt to the defence of nuclear power this week as academics debated whether public emotion is constraining science, writes Anna Fazackerley. At...
An employment tribunal has ruled in favour of a group of staff at London Metropolitan University who claimed that they were unfairly dismissed when the university tried to put them on new, inferior...
Universities may be forced to squeeze the number of medical school places they can offer unless they can train more academic clinicians, a conference heard this week. Medical academics attending the...
There may be more rain than snow and no slopes or chairlifts in sight but Manchester University aims to be a training mecca for ski-resort bosses. A new World Academy of Sport Executive Centre,...
New industrial laws pushed through the Australian Parliament last week will make life "hellish" for university administrators, according to academic legal experts. Andrew Stewart, professor of law at...
Greenhouse-gas emissions at US universities are soaring - largely because of a long-term shift to energy-intensive science and technology, greater deployment of personal computers and demand for air...
Professors at Japan's Kyoto University are giving lectures to primary school children in subjects ranging from biology to computer technology. Rival universities have dismissed the initiative as a...
Presidents of Paris' inner-city universities say they lack the resources they urgently need to renovate faculty buildings to comply with legal safety standards. In spite of emergency finance for...
Private Sri Lankan higher education institutes linked to UK universities are being screened for quality after concerns about substandard courses. There are 30 British higher education institutions...
By 2008, 124 million Chinese will be old enough to enter higher education, placing unprecedented strain on universities, according to figures from the Ministry of Education. "In the next 15 years,...
African higher education leaders this week welcomed the UK's first grant towards the revival of African universities. But they view the £200,000 awarded to the Association of Commonwealth...
A visit to Africa has left Bill Rammell feeling inspired at the continent's commitment to spreading knowledge For almost a decade our Government has focused relentlessly on education. When you get...
Learning is much like a journey to work: filled with bad weather, tangled tights, blocked bins and delays. Well... almost I do my bit for the planet by cycling to the station. But does the planet...