Higher education has little to look forward to if the conservative Howard government is re-elected when Australians go to the polls tomorrow. After slashing almost Aus$2 billion (Pounds 670 million)...
A United States court has sided with a student who claims she has a reading disability and should have been given extra time to complete the examination for her lawyer's licence. Marilyn Bartlett, a...
Indonesia's students are back on the streets with a new slogan: bring down the price of rice and bring down new president B. J. Habibie. It is just four months since they helped topple President...
Expansion is over for France's universities. After a decade of rapid growth they face at least five years of stability. The emphasis will be on developing research and technology, and renovating...
Some of the gloss has rubbed off the University of Phoenix, the private university network seen as a threat to United States higher education. The university's parent company, Apollo Group Inc, has...
Serbian academics who refuse to accept legislation that has given the government day-to-day control of the universities are risking dismissal from their jobs. A new university act, introduced last...
Israel's national student union this week intensified its campaign for lower tuition fees by calling on its members to rebel. Half-page advertisements in all the leading newspapers encouraged...
Dutch universities are preparing to face more cuts from the new government. Heads of many universities fear for their future under education minister Loek Hermans, who is expected to carry out a...
Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet Edited by Fay Sudweeks, Margaret McLaughlin, and Sheizaf Rafaeli published by AAAI Press/MIT Pres, 320pp, Pounds 29.50, ISBN 0 262 69206 6 The...
Steve Grand got only two A levels but enjoyed crystallising DNA and "running amok with radioactivity" in the school science labs. The self-taught biologist decided to create a real ecosystem within a...
An online mentoring scheme in the United States could help reduce the number of women students who drop out of engineering and science courses. MentorNet aims to link 5,000 female students with...
An initiative to develop high-quality education and skills, improve business competitiveness and enhance the quality of life for local people in the North-east by exploiting information age...
The University of Edinburgh is running the first UK-based Cisco Networking Academy Programme, a joint venture between Internet hardware maker Cisco Systems and the education sector. The university's...
A project to establish a "virtual" reading group on learning and teaching in higher education has won a grant from the Staff and Educational Development Association. The project, managed by Paul...
Should students be given grades or just marked as pass or fail? A researcher at Brighton University has tested this question on two groups of students and found that withholding grades appears to...