Russian TV weather presenters - chosen more for their attractiveness, femininity and legs than meteorological expertise - are to get scientific training with the help of the UK Met Office College. "...
All of Tennessee's public colleges, including six universities and 12 community colleges, will shut on Wednesday after state legislators failed to set a budget. The separate seven-campus University...
The Santa Lucia Foundation is to contribute €60 million (£38 million) towards laboratories for the new European Brain Research Institute in Rome. The institute, whose president is Nobel-winning...
The president of the Central Africa Republic has appealed to Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for immediate aid to pay staff at the country's National University. Lecturers, who have received no...
The University of Toronto has received a C$45 million (£19.7 million) endowment for the humanities and social sciences from its chancellor, Henry Jackman. The donation represents almost a third of...
A region of Turkey devastated by war is to be home to a new university. Bilkent University, one of the country's leading private institutions, plans to build a university in the predominantly Kurdish...
A draft European Union directive that would have forced universities to release research data for immediate free commercial exploitation has been toned down after critics pointed out that it would...
The tin of tomato paste, its label gaudily decorated with a Neapolitan peasant girl in traditional costume and a smoking Vesuvius in the background, looks authentic. "This is the kind traditionally...
The Central European University, founded and funded by US financier and philanthropist George Soros to promote western values in the former Communist bloc, is to broaden its intake to include the...
The first German-language university in central Europe for 57 years is to open in Budapest in the autumn. The region has lacked such an institution since the German half of Prague's Charles...
Tens of thousands of Indian students will miss out on higher education this year because there are not enough places. University admissions opened this week amid warnings of impending chaos if the...
New Zealand's student loan scheme is to be revamped as public concern over spiralling debt grows. Two options are on the table - tweaking the current system to limit individual debt, or replacing it...
Deborah Eyre, the newly appointed director of Warwick University's National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth, does not have fond memories of her school days. "I did not really start to enjoy...
June 2001 An email from the vice-chancellor announcing cuts in philosophy posts (from eight-and-a-half to five) puts me on the spot. I have been teaching at Middlesex since 1972 and, as a friend...
The British Society of Animal Science held its annual conference in York this year. While the conference seems to have gone well overall, it transpires that there were some snags. Apparently, York...