A government report has found that US universities have shifted their financial aid, presumably to attract more students with high entrance exam scores to improve their rankings in league tables....
Idyllic images of Canada's snow-capped mountains, golden wheat fields and sparkling lakes are hampering efforts to attract tourists, skilled workers and inward investment, according to a marketing...
Up to 100 of the 500 Russian students in China have ignored education minister Vladimir Filippov's advice to come home to escape the Sars virus.
Iraq's students have been advised to return to their studies on Saturday, but it is unclear how many of the country's universities will be able to function.
Burmese academic Salai Tun Than has been released after serving 18 months of a seven-year sentence for staging a one-man demonstration in support of human rights and democracy. He was on hunger...
The Algerian government is attempting to attract back some of the 66,000 academics who left the country between 1994 and 1999.
The first woman to head a Vatican academy was nominated last week by Pope John Paul II. Letizia Pani Ermini, professor of archaeology at Rome's La Sapienza University, became president of the...
The European Commission and the World Bank are to inject emergency funding into Palestine's university system, which has been facing heavy financial pressures during the past three years of conflict...
France's elite Institute of Political Studies plans to break an educational taboo by increasing fees by up to three times, but with safeguards to protect poor students. Richard Descoings, director of...
The Conservatives would ditch the dogma and deliver a fair deal for students and universities, insists Damian Green A future Conservative government's pledge to scrap Labour's tuition fees and get...
Our country must be the only one in which passengers never know from which platform their trains will leave - if they leave at all Why is it that the nations that led the 'high-tech' war cannot move...
Saturday Yesterday, the World Health Organisation website showed only two recorded cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) in Malaysia, fewer than in the UK. But Singapore is nearby, so it...
Lawyers have long been described as blood-suckers. Now Canadian researchers have identified exactly how. At next week's vampire conference, Sarah Swan and Sharon Sutherland of the University of...
Oxford University has not ruled out appointing an insider as vice-chancellor, despite speculation that its selection committee would follow Cambridge's lead by looking abroad. But a well-placed...
Are you worried that modern genetic technology - offering the scope to breed humans to order - poses new problems? Think again. At last week's meeting of the Human Genetics Commission (page 9),...