Njabulo Ndebele, new president of the Association of African Universities, is looking to a brighter future Njabulo Ndebele, new president of the Association of African Universities (AAU), is leading...
* Hussein al-Shahristani , visiting professor at Surrey University, has been appointed deputy speaker of the recently formed Iraqi Parliament. * Karan Bilimoria , founder and chief executive of Cobra...
British universities may miss out on the Singapore market unless they get on the map. Anna Fazackerley reports Singapore is becoming an important target for British universities but those outside a...
Independent schools say that university departments in key subject areas such as languages and science are relying on them to keep undergraduate courses viable in the face of a "calamitous" drop in...
Plans to double European Union spending on research and set up a European Research Council could be killed by budget cuts being considered after the French and Dutch voted against the European...
A businessman who donated £ million to create Imperial College London's Management School is facing fraud charges in the US. Gary Tanaka and his business partner Alberto Vilar have been charged with...
The age-old wisdom that inbreeding should be avoided at all costs has been confirmed as new evidence reveals that British bumblebee populations are declining due to mating with relatives. Scientists...
The decliners What puts students off your university? PLUS National Gallery director Charles Saumarez Smith takes John Carey to task over his latest book, What Good Are the Arts?
Academics at Liverpool John Moores University have called for a public inquiry into the university's decision two years ago to sack transport expert Lewis Lesley for "gross misconduct". In a secret...
More than 80 per cent of Scottish university and college graduates think they made the right choice of institution and course, according to the first report from a five-year longitudinal study of "...
The Government will use the G8 Summit on July 6-8 to seek support for an international science panel to help reduce the impact of natural hazards, such as tsunamis and earthquakes, and advise...
The Government was this week urged to rethink its approach to visa charges as Universities UK warned that increasing costs might deter international students. UUK said that it was "deeply...
Basic science at Scotland's stand- alone agriculture and biological research institutes was under fire this week after ministers confirmed that core funding would be withdrawn from the Hannah...
Men may soon find their female partners have a better grasp of the offside rule in football than they do. A growing army of female footballers is proving that not only can women "bend it like Beckham...
Universities significantly overestimate the number of spin-off companies they generate, according to what is claimed to be the most comprehensive and objective survey of enterprise activity in higher...