Two London universities have announced a joint £10 million health and engineering initiative. The aim is to combine the resources of Queen Mary, University of London, and City University to develop...
An American teacher at a Siberian university who was deported after managers sacked him for criticising the way English was taught has won a court case ordering his reinstatement. Tomsk district...
The Vatican has mobilised Catholic university students in support of its demands that the new European Constitution include a reference to Europe's "Christian roots". Pope John Paul II spoke to a...
The largest reform of Turkish higher education since a 1980 military coup has been put on hold. The architect of the reform package, education minister Erkan Mumcu, has, in a surprise move, been...
Geographers from Dhaka University are giving 100 of Bangladesh's leading non-governmental organisations the high-tech tools they need to stop HIV and Aids spreading into the country from neighbouring...
The University for Peace in Costa Rica has overcome a culture of indifference to meet the twin challenge of expansion and global development set by UN secretary-general Kofi Annan. The university (...
Huang Minxiang, , from Fuzhou, who confessed to the bombings at Beijing and Qinghua universities on February 25 that injured nine people, has told police he carried out the attacks "to achieve fame".
Archaeologists from Rome's La Sapienza University have announced the discovery of what they believe are the world's oldest swords. The nine swords, several spearheads and other implements were found...
Thieving northwestern crows steal food more "politely" from their immediate kin than from birds that are less closely related to them, according to scientists in the US, writes Natasha Gilbert. The...
Eighty-year-old Aldo Paramatti last week discussed his final thesis for a degree in philosophy at Milan University, bringing his score to three degrees. Mr Paramatti received degrees in engineering...
The European Commission has launched an online guide to higher education opportunities available to students across the European Union. The Ploteus internet portal indexes all institutions and...
The European Investment Bank plans to lend €35 million (£23.7 million) to help Austria's Danube University Krems complete a €70 million expansion, transforming the institution into an international...
An e-library designed to give researchers from former Soviet republics access to electronic journals and databases is now online. Researchers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan,...
Turkish pediatrician Ihsan Dogramaci, 88, the only surviving signatory of the 1946 charter that created the World Health Organisation, has received his 26th honorary degree. The degree in medicine...
A proposed teaching academy can unite institutions and faculty to promote excellence, argues Cliff Allan The higher education landscape is changing as a result of the recent white paper and policy...