The red-tape prize is set to go to teacher-education departments, writes Claire Sanders. Michael Driscoll, vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, said: "The volume of inspection and level of...
Students are working longer hours during term time than ever before and it is adversely affecting their studies. Moreover, under-represented groups are disproportionately affected, a study says. John...
The Royal Society has announced the election of 42 new fellows and six foreign members from the fields of science, engineering and technology. John Barrow, professor in the department of mathematics...
Oxford Brookes University faces a compensation claim that could approach £1 million from osteopathy students who say it did not equip them properly for a career. Students who joined the osteopathy...
THES reporters survey a worrying human rights situation in Latin America One teacher or lecturer in Colombia has been killed every week so far this year according to Fecode, the country's teachers'...
THES reporters survey a worrying human rights situation in Latin America A Guatemalan appeals court has overturned the conviction of a suspected author of the plot to kill academic Myrna Mack Chang...
Nude models at a US art school have voted to join a union as a means of forcing the university to pay attention to professional hazards such as cold rooms and charcoal dust. Administrators at Moore...
An Italian student magazine has been inundated with complaints about academics who neglect their teaching duties to spend large amounts of time on contract work in private universities. University...
The president of a Christian university in the Southern US has resigned after a student journalist assigned to write a profile about him discovered that he had never received his claimed masters...
Canada's Institutes of Health Research will accept funding applications for embryonic stem-cell research despite the lack of a definitive legal framework.
Police who found a cache of arms in a student's room at the University of Nairobi, said some had been used in robberies. The main suspect is still at large.
The European Commission has launched a biotechnology website for debates about the field and related issues. It also includes a database of experts, a library and other information. Detail: http://...
Italy's National Research Council, National Astrophysics Institute and the Italian Space Agency are under emergency government administration pending reorganisation. Last week, the head of the...
Students in Côte d'Ivoire's second largest university town protested against the invalidation of this academic year because of disruption caused by civil war.
The Conservatives' latest plan to win votes serves neither higher education nor society, says Margaret Hodge Last week saw another bungled attempt by the Tories to recapture voters' confidence. As...