Making an impact in research can mean a variety of things - from changing the direction of a field of study to capturing the attention of a bored teenager who thought science was nerdy, writes Anna...
A UK university education is one of the least affordable in the world, according to a study by a North American think-tank. Although the UK comes 14th out of 16 countries surveyed, its low ranking...
Australia is failing to meet demand for local graduate professionals because it relies too heavily on skilled migrants and fee-paying foreign students, a study has found. Monash University...
Al-Hassan Conteh, president of the University of Liberia, plans to kickstart a cash injection into his university with a fundraising conference at the University of Pennsylvania next week. Dr Conteh...
The domination of English and Afrikaans in South Africa's universities poses a threat to indigenous languages, according to a report commissioned by the Education Ministry. Use of African languages...
Graduates of China's expanded university system are increasingly facing difficulty finding work. Many have started to look for jobs that might have been considered beneath them. Others opt to stay on...
Israeli politicians are seeking to separate the announcement of a new university in northern Israel from the crisis facing the country's higher education. Movie mogul and arms broker Arnon Milchan...
Plans for a manned Mars landing have moved a step closer as Russian space scientists announced an ambitious experiment into the stresses the crew of a mission would be put under. "Mars 500" is...
State universities are worried that fear of public attention may discourage donations from corporations and alumni, as the foundations through which they give money come under scrutiny after several...
For nine months, Paul Mackney and Sally Hunt have negotiated for a merged union with real clout at the bargaining table The annual council of the Association of University Teachers will next week...
If the best institutions are those where open debate is encouraged, however controversial, those in the UK are world leaders British academics increasingly take it for granted that the US has a...
There are some periods of history on which the serendipitous archaeological discovery of a tiny object can cast a narrow but intense beam of illumination into a dark corner where the absence of a...
The sands and slot machines of Blackpool offered few pleasures to the Labour Students at last week's National Union of Students conference. Not one Labour hopeful was elected to the prime NUS vice-...
Meanwhile, Labour's tactic of publishing individual chapters of its manifesto before producing the whole document may well give the party time to correct an unfortunate design glitch. A headline...
One of the fiercest critics of the perceived decline of academic standards, the Daily Mail , can always be relied on to expose student cheating. So when a study on the proliferation of student "ghost...