Some students have three times as much cash available to be spent on them as others, in spite of paying exactly the same Pounds 1,025 tuition fee, new figures show. Statistics compiled by university...
North Birmingham College has joined the growing ranks of education institutions facing employment tribunals under new laws designed to protect whistleblowers. Ian Walker, a business studies lecturer...
Suicides among the bright young things of Oxford and Cambridge attract a great deal of media attention, but are the rates in fact any higher than for students elsewhere? Claire Sanders reports In...
KNIGHTS: George Alberti, president of the Royal College of Physicians, for services to diabetic medicine; John Beringer, lately chairman, Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment, for...
Students with dreams of creative internet careers can examine courses through a bilingual European guide. Where to Get Multimedia Training in Europe covers courses in 16 European Union countries....
Romanians lost their traditional construction skills under communism, especially after former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu took power in 1964. He banned brick-kiln firing, lime-mortar rendering and...
A 90-year-old retired general of the elite Alpini mountain troops has graduated in political science at Turin University, earning top marks for his thesis on relations between the United States and...
Malaysia's national accreditation board has ruled that students enrolling for masters degrees in private universities must have at least a first degree or its equivalent. The minimum entry...
A police operation to apprehend clients of street prostitutes netted the man who performed Canada's first heart transplant. Wilbert Keon is to step down as director-general of the University of...
Culturally specific terms in education can be minefields for even skilled translators, says Pieta Monks. Pity the Soviet translator of a booklet about a collective farm designed to show western...
Britain remains by far the most popular destination for United States students doing academic work abroad and their numbers are increasing. But several non-traditional destinations have seen even...
One of the most northerly academic institutions is the Inuit Arctic College in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. At 63 degrees north, only Arktikum in Lapland is closer to the Arctic Circle. Arctic...
British universities are to prosper from grants under the European Commission Connect initiative, which will spend E8.4 million (Pounds 5.3 million). Sixty selected projects are supposed to combine...
Belarussian students on courses deemed socially in demand, such as teaching, law and social work, have to sign papers agreeing to go where ordered on graduation or forfeit their diplomas. The system...
Yuri Bandarzheuski, former rector of a medical institute in the Belarussian city of Gomel, faces charges of having taken bribes to let students through entrance exams. But the prosecution case can...