The University of Wi****ersrand has protested at the failure of organisers to involve it in security arrangements for a meeting to be addressed by Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres. South African...
Universities across the developed world need to respond to student complaints, an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development study suggests. The study, part of the OECD's programme on...
A student aid fund set up for families hit by the September 11 attacks has handed out almost $1 million (£640,000) in loan relief and scholarships over the past ten months. More than 50 partners of...
News Colleges go deep into higher education territory Features Hello out there: Colin Pillinger asks if there is life on other planets Vive la union : European universities link up to create joint...
A year after the September 11 terrorist attacks, US students consider international educational exchanges significantly more important than they were before that date, says an Institute of...
Tuition fees of €500 (£317) a semester - to take effect in 2004 - have provoked a hostage crisis in the city of Hamburg. Fees are so controversial in Germany that when the government of Hamburg...
An overseas recruitment campaign and simpler entry procedures have helped raise the number of foreigners studying in France, even though the agency set up to attract overseas students has admitted...
New Zealand universities are using the government's fee stabilisation deal as a bargaining card to delay legislation that would allow the government to set maximum limits on tuition fees. The...
Have you noticed that there are fragments of audio tape flapping in the wind? They can be found all over the place. The fact that music can cross boundaries is well known, but this is physical......
Matt Barr is prepared to die. The 21-year-old art student at Brighton and Hove College is a peace protester, part of a British delegation preparing to go to Baghdad, where they intend to act as "...
It was a title that could not fail to catch the eye - "Nitrous Oxide and William Shakespeare". Was laughing gas to be revealed as a secret ingredient in the Bard's comedies? Alas, no. The paper, to...
Far from stifling invention, Cambridge will thrive under a unified IPR policy, insists Alec Broers In the past, Cambridge University has been criticised for failing to commercialise its best...
Initiatives to give students a career boost may be failing those most in need, argues John Brennan If you were born on the wrong side of the tracks and you haven't become a professional footballer or...
Although not implemented until 2006, the European directive of November 2001 on workplace discrimination has altered everything and has made voluntary retirement a national issue. University unions...
Dentists of the future must learn to soothe as well as sedate, says new guidance for dental degree providers, and in doing so they have to get to know their patients. This year, a regulatory change...