Market forces that might one day make human cloning a profitable engine of social change have been proposed in a speculative study by economists. Gilles Saint-Paul, professor of economics at the...
Five hundred university leaders gather in Salamanca, Spain, today to map out the future unity of Europe's universities as a follow-up to the Bologna Declaration of June 1999. The convention is...
The Department for Education and Employment should be disbanded to allow a radical rethink of higher education policy, the Association of University Teachers said this week. Launching the union's pre...
The Argentine government has decided to withdraw financial support for Argentine studies at St Antony's College, Oxford, worth £186,000 per year over ten years. The decision revokes a UK-Argentine...
South Africa's Human Rights Commission is to investigate initiation rites after a student at the University of Stellenbosch was knocked down and killed while walking along a highway with a group of...
Plans to shorten the time spent by students in higher education in Austria by reducing bureaucracy have sparked a clash between university authorities and the education ministry. The ministry wants...
Regulations controlling intellectual property rights need to be radically overhauled to ensure the free exchange of knowledge, according to John Howkins, chairman of the Collaboration and Ownership...
Aberdeen University has won £1 million to launch a training package in e-commerce technology in September. The computing science department has attracted funding from the Engineering and Physical...
Students who are the first in their families to go to university will be helped by a new online service launched last Friday by Manchester-based entrepreneur Anthony Wilson. The uni4me project is the...
Budding entrepreneurs in Spain have gone off the internet. Ninety per cent of ideas presented to investors at business school IESE's New Business Forum in Barcelona last year were e-businesses. This...
The launch of SuperJanet4 means the first stage of the high-speed network's transformation from a higher education research tool to the backbone of a national e-learning grid has been completed....
A new biotechnology innovation centre owned by the Royal Veterinary College is to offer accommodation for up to 20 companies in central London. The London BioScience Innovation Centre, at the Camden...
The Institute for System Level Integration (which brings together the engineering and computing expertise of four Scottish universities) has been given $500,000 (£350,000) of software to make its...
Nottingham Trent University is strengthening its bid to become a "truly entrepreneurial university" by appointing an enterprise company with a board of business leaders. The company, to be known as...
The aims of science and business frequently clash. David Packham calls for an improved code of practice. Earlier this month, the government announced that £15 million of public money was to be made...