The European Parliament has agreed a budget of e16.2 billion (£10.1 billion) for the Sixth Framework Programme on research but is ringfencing the money so that it will not be spent on ethically...
Pakistan has ordered its academics to seek government approval before they contact counterparts in India or accept invitations to conferences or seminars. An education ministry directive, which...
Ottawa Canada has opened up its academic jobs market to the world after the government announced that universities could now advertise all vacancies simultaneously in Canada and abroad. Qualified...
Blair asserts his European credentials Prime minister Tony Blair was confronted by about 50 anti-war demonstrators as he left the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham...
Brown joins push for euro vote Chancellor Gordon Brown has reassured cabinet colleagues that he wants to join the euro, as Tony Blair today warns that Britain cannot afford the tragedy of another...
US educators do not expect a fall in international student exchanges because of this autumn's terrorist attacks. University study-abroad officials surveyed by the Institute for International...
Turkey's higher education authority (Yok) has stepped up its campaign to keep Islamic influences off university campuses in the wake of September 11. Yok's 20th anniversary this week was marked by...
A 25-day strike over pay by Israel's senior university lecturers could be over within days as academics weigh an offer from the finance ministry of a 4 per cent wage increase and compensation for...
One of Australia's oldest universities is facing bankruptcy and is seeking a A$10 million (£3.7 million) advance from the federal government to overcome its financial crisis. Dozens of academic and...
Professors in Germany will be paid according to performance after the German parliament agreed a reform of their pay and conditions of service. Between a quarter and a third of the salaries of the...
Women make up only about a quarter of Europe's professors and less than one third of researchers, according to a report from Eurostat, the European Union's statistical agency. This contrasts sharply...
Scientists hunting for gender-bending chemicals thought to be responsible for feminising fish, rising breast cancer incidence and falling sperm counts may have missed the wood for the trees. Research...
Solid evidence of the Romans' bid to turn beer-swilling Britons into urbane, wine-quaffing citizens has been unearthed by archaeologists. A vast complex of vineyards in the Nene Valley in...
The International Film School Wales at the University of Wales College, Newport, has secured two years of core funding from HTV, the BBC and S4C. Among the projects to benefit will be a short course...
Further education colleges and higher education institutions in Wales are being linked in an integrated national video network funded by Education and Learning Wales and the European Regional...