Dance and drama students will have the chance to join new courses leading to nationally recognised qualifications and possibly attracting financial support. The six new courses, known provisionally...
If the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts is to succeed overall, it must dare to fail on specific projects. So recommended the House of Commons select committee on science and...
Another senior academic has made false claims about prestigious academic qualifications. Kurt Ziebeck, former head of physics at Loughborough University, has been falsely describing himself as a...
Cricklade College has sacked its principal Richard Evans for "bringing the college into disrepute". But the troubled Hampshire college stands by its decision to dismiss the whistleblower who brought...
Suzi Clark, the communications chief sacked by Middlesex University after a row over freedom of speech, has settled her claim for unfair dismissal. Ms Clark fell foul of vice-chancellor Michael...
Helena Kennedy's trip to Macedonia this week in advance of the Sarajevo stability pact conference will have been a good challenge for the QC's celebrated sense of fairness. Ensuring that the British...
Sunday It is not every day that a Swiss mountain-resort hotel becomes home to Iranian ayatollahs, mullahs and members of the judiciary and prison services. Heads turn as the ayatollahs and mullahs...
Sir Robin McLaren, former ambassador to China, becomes chairman of the college council of Royal Holloway, University of London, in August. He succeeds Sir Robert Andrew. Stephen O'Brien, chief...
The Royal Academy of Engineering has given fellowships to: Anthony Ball, director of materials engineering, University of Cape Town; Yvonne Barton, chairman of British Gas Asia Pacific Pte Limited;...
Old verbs gotta go We seem to be losing something of our sense of obligation, according to research on changes in grammar since 1961. A database being compiled at Lancaster University shows striking...
Next month the Rising Sun, indelibly associated with Japan, is likely to be finally recognised as the country's flag despite anxiety that it smacks of 1930s' nationalism, which peaked in the second...
African students at the universities of Rabat and Casablanca in Morocco protested to the university authorities that they became the victims of racist propaganda after a private television station...
Iran's state television has reported that a detained student leader admitted exiled dissidents were behind the violence during the worst unrest in the country since the 1979 revolution. Several taped...
A United States company that planned to bring in 1,500 US and Japanese students for the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games is suing the organisers and Australian Olympics minister Michael...
Kazakhstan is spending $1 billion on its new capital city while education is in decline, writes Ruth Cherrington It is just over a year since the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan officially...