The armed takeover of Russia's last independent national television channel, following a boardroom coup, has provoked a storm of criticism the world over. The forced imposition of new management at...
Afghan women plan to defy the Taliban ban by setting up their own university in Pakistan. Bernard Leeman reports. The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan has launched a challenge to...
Students at some Russian universities are being forced to act as unpaid labour, cleaning up campuses and turning out for demonstrations to please local politicians. Earlier this month, busloads of...
The Spanish government has unveiled plans to abolish national university entrance exams and to introduce a test for would-be lecturers. Other changes in the long-awaited proposals for the...
A Swiss foundation that aims to enhance Geneva's role in international cooperation, solving problems relating to peace, human rights, equitable social relations and sustainable development, has...
Academic access to Turkey's Ottoman archives, which could shed light on Armenian claims of a genocide, is being manipulated by the authorities. The Turkish government has disputed motions in European...
Young Australians from urban areas are far more likely to attend university than those outside the big cities, according to a team of researchers with the federal education department. The main cause...
As Japan's academic year gets under way, university heads are growing worried that a greying population could eventually force universities to recruit students rather than select them. In the past...
The United States government plans to charge international students a fee to fund an anti-terrorism monitoring system that will keep track of their addresses and academic status at all times. To pay...
Argentina will introduce legislation to restrict student entry to the country's universities. Rising student dropout figures, overcrowded lecture halls and saturated labour markets, especially in...
The rain in Spain may fall mainly on the plain, but what about the rain in the Thames Valley? Farmers, insurers and others need to know, and a start-up company from Reading University's Centre for...
The University of Abertay, Dundee, is joining forces with information technology giant NCR to encourage more software engineers to study and work in Scotland. To mark the launch of the partnership,...
Higher education is facing a cultural crisis as young people grow up with increasingly multisensory systems of communication, an expert has warned. Walter Stewart, director of global marketing,...
Global digital radio networks offering "sound vitamins" for the elderly could help slow ageing. An international research project funded by the European Union has been launched to test a system that...
Ulster University has teamed up with Greenmount College of Agriculture and Horticulture to offer Northern Ireland's first degree programme in information technology tailored for the agricultural and...