Contrary to fears in the science community, the size of a research team's grant cheques is unlikely to have a heavy impact on the outcome of its research rating in 2008, writes Anna Fazackerley....
Applied research will receive much greater recognition among the panels for physical sciences and engineering in the 2008 research assessment exercise, writes Caroline Davis. Universities will be...
How many social scientists will be good enough to qualify for the new superstar research ranking in the 2008 research assessment exercise? writes Anthea Lipsett. The question is still being asked by...
The Belarus Government has announced widespread closures of courses in the humanities and social sciences, mainly in private universities. It said the country had an oversupply of newly graduated...
Five leading Paris-based higher education establishments are to share resources and co-ordinate their policies to increase their collective influence at home and abroad. The presidents of the...
A 22-year-old mathematics student at Bologna University who was shot dead as he left an exam seems to have been the victim of a crime of passion. Riccardo Venier was hit five times. A man who had...
The European Commission's life sciences and biotechnology action plan includes an independent cost-benefit analysis of the "consequences, opportunities and challenges... of modern biotechnology" for...
A US postgraduate programme in homeland security is to be launched to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York. So far, 70 students have applied for 25 places on...
Austria's policy of accepting into higher education any home student with a basic high-school leaving certificate has come to an end after a European Court ruled that equal rights must be applied to...
The student-to-staff ratio in Australian universities has fallen for the first time in more than ten years. Brendan Nelson the Education Minister, has claimed the credit despite having cut federal...
Swedish student unions are protesting against universities and colleges selling students' personal information to recruitment agencies, unions, book clubs and marketing companies. Under Swedish law,...
A small private university well away from Japan's centres of population has become the latest victim of the cut-throat competition for undergraduate students. Hagi International University,...
More students than ever are members of the Communist Party of China, figures released on the 84th anniversary of the party's foundation show. Official sources announced that last year 2.42 million...
Could university authorities have stopped a former student carrying out the London bombings? Simon Lee reflects In the middle of our graduation festival last week, the mass media wanted urgent...
In academia, degrees, titles such as professor, doctor and fellowship of esteemed societies mean a great deal more than becoming a Dame I've never understood the British honours system and, in spite...