Medical schools should consider introducing psychometric tests into selection procedures, University of Nottingham and the Oxford Consulting group researchers say. Early findings from a seven-year...
How can students turn pulling pints into key skills? Tony Tysome looks at the latest approach to work experience. Students, university careers officers and employers are being encouraged to rethink...
Progress and tradition could go hand in hand in China but only if reformists will let them, Wang Gungwu argues. The Indian regional elections went well for the Congress Party in November, but perhaps...
Half the 800 graduating students at the Federal University of Benin, Nigeria, were prevented from attending their degree ceremony by armed soldiers, who cordoned off the area to forestall a...
A court in the Norrland district of northSweden has increased the sentence on Daniel Berner, a member of the neo-Nazi network Nordland, and confirmed the sentence of Karolina Matti, a PhD student at...
Almost 40,000 personal files and records documenting forced labour in the former Hermann Goering steelworks during the Nazi period have been found in an anti-aircraft gun bunker in Linz. Historian...
The search by Australian universities for non-government sources of income is affecting their choice of chancellors. Universities are increasingly looking to corporate chiefs to don their chancellors...
The China Scholarship Council is improving arrangements for Chinese students and scholars to study overseas and for foreign students to study in China. More than 1,709 students and scholars have been...
A small college in the American South has bowed to pressure from civil rights groups and cancelled a course that argued slaves were content with their lot. The course, called "North Carolina History...
The World Bank is investing heavily in farming extension education in universities across sub-Saharan Africa to break the link between poor agricultural practices and chronic food shortages. Ghana's...
The Netherlands' Leiden University is making a bid for independence. Leiden chairman Laurens Vredevoogd wants to free the country's oldest university from government control and develop it as a top-...
Details of the controversial reform to reorganise university studies around three, five or eight year courses have been released following student unrest and calls for clarification from the newly...
Four years of war have devastated Bosnia's universities: thousands of students and lecturers have quit, courses are out of date, and damaged university buildings remain in disrepair. Not only does...
European Commission officials have denied a claim by the Italian higher education ministry that it is about to drop infringement proceedings against Italy over an issue concerning the country's 1,500...
The subject was ancient, the style postmodern. Cornelius Holtorf gained his archaeology PhD from the University of Wales, Lampeter with a paperless thesis presented on a CD-Rom. He chose his medium...