Police battled with hundreds of demonstrators in Istanbul last week as a court heard appeals by eight students against jail sentences of up to 18 years for their part in protests against higher fees...
BUILDER's bum is not the only damaging stereotype of the construction industry. A survey of construction students in Leeds has uncovered entrenched prejudice that could be an obstacle to harmonious...
Ragging restraints at Indian universities are likely after a southern court sentenced a former medical student to life imprisonment for beheading a fresher. The court heard that the first-year...
The number of doctoral students of Ashkenazi (European and American) origin at Israeli universities is four times higher than the number of students of Sephardi (African and Asian) origin. This is...
Eleven United States higher education organisations have thrown their weight behind a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the military's policy of banning openly gay servicemen and women. The 4,380...
After 18 months of strikes, bans and protest marches, Australia's universities have at last concluded their first round of grand-scale pay bargaining. Academics and general staff have gained an...
Philip Greenspun has complained publicly about the cost of tuition almost since the day he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982, writes Jon Marcus. Now an Internet...
ONTARIO has instructed universities and colleges to arm students with the facts about the job prospects of each course. The move is in response to high unemployment and student default on government...
The number of Irish students seeking university places in the United Kingdom this year has dropped sharply, partly because of the introduction of tuition fees from September. Last year, 11,213...
La Sapienza in Rome, Europe's largest university, is in dire financial straits and will have to cut spending drastically if it cannot get special funding from the state. Giuseppe D'Ascenzo, who was...
Food technology students and their professors at Florence University's faculty of agriculture are producing the first wine in Italy to bear an official university label, and they plan to do the same...
Four United States students who travelled to Kosovo in solidarity with Albanian-speaking students in the troubled Serbian province have been jailed. The students - named as Daniel Perez, Teresa...
(Photograph) - Show of support: Serbian students in Pristina make the three-fingers sign and display a portrait of Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadjici in a protest against a deal allowing Albanians...
People are staying healthier - and therefore living longer. As a result we need more doctors. Another 1,000 medical school entrants a year is proposed, an increase that would involve upping medical...
ACCESS to education is perhaps the greatest key to equitable social mobility and the breakdown of the class division still evident in Britain. It is reasonable to ensure that those who benefit most...