An investigation into claims by former Luton University professor Nick Tiratsoo that he was unfairly rejected for a redeployment post in a biased selection process was "a fudge", according to...
The recently discovered cache of previously unpublished photographs of The Beatles at Dundee University is also a treasure trove for its sister university across the Tay, St Andrews. Two years ago,...
Persuading students to invest in postgraduate business study is no easy job, especially with so many providers. Institutions are increasingly investing the huge sums of money and meeting the exacting...
Europe's largest and most advanced internet-based video-conferencing network for further and higher education was launched in Wales this week. All 37 Welsh universities and colleges will be able to...
Opponents of the potential liberalisation of higher education are mobilising following the launch of a Department of Trade and Industry consultation paper on the General Agreement on Trade in...
Medical students are being deterred from choosing a career in forensic pathology by the scandals arising from the illicit retention of children's organs in Bristol and Alder Hey and the closure of...
The ill-fated monarch of England, Henry VI, exhibited all the symptoms of schizophrenia, according to a psychiatric researcher, writes Steve Farrar. The nature of the affliction that blighted the...
It is a battle that never ends, a constant conflict that pits two of Africa's most feared predators against each other on an almost daily basis. Yet although a team of zoologists has found groups of...
Swiss university rectors are drawing up a framework for a national quality-assurance system that is likely to inform similar moves in neighbouring Austria and Germany. The Conference of University...
European universities are to shun so-called "cafeteria courses" as they devise a credit transfer and accumulation system that will drive ministers' dream of vastly increased student mobility across a...
Waikato University is to apologise to the Jewish community for the anguish caused by its handling of the case of a researcher accused of Holocaust denial. An independent inquiry by Bill Renwick,...
Thirteen-year-old Maddie Gordon first thought of going to university when she was ten. She is not the only one. The fingers flipping through university ranking magazines are getting smaller as...
The Cypriot government is to reconsider a decision to prevent private colleges from becoming universities due to the expected impact that joining the European Union will have on student numbers....
Morocco's private higher education institutions have been given until December 2003 to phase out programmes run in collaboration with overseas universities. The higher education ministry is caught...
The suicides of two sisters have highlighted the growing pressures facing Turkey's young people as they scramble for a coveted university place. The sisters killed themselves with a shotgun in a...