Irish folk music has always been close to Martin Dowling's heart, so much so that he married a flutist and honeymooned in Ireland on the proceeds of a couple of research grants. And now Dr Dowling,...
New status will boost university-level teaching, the British Psychological Society hears. Faisal al Yafai reports. Reclassifying A-level psychology as a science will benefit the teaching of the...
British Council makes the move from teacher training to supporting a cultural dialogue. Nick Holdsworth reports. The British Council is to change the focus of its work in Moscow after a period of...
The former director and the deputy director of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy's most important university academy of music, have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in...
A new book claiming to list the 100 most gay-friendly universities has jumped into the ever-expanding rankings market. The 389-page Advocate College Guide , published by the national gay and lesbian...
Canada's Government has decided to again support international scholarships after half a year when the programmes were in financial limbo. Last summer, the Government suspended C$13.5 million (?5.9...
Campaign to free an academic jailed for challenging the country's president starts to take off, writes Vera Rich The wife of Alexander Kazulin, physicist and former rector of the Belarussian State...
A complaint from the European Commission that universities in French-speaking Belgium discriminate against foreign students will be formally rejected by the Belgian Government this week. Furthermore...
By reclaiming ?68 million in funding, the Government lost the trust of the science community, argues Martyn Amos. Ripples from the collapse of Rover two years ago are apparently lapping at the doors...
Chaucer said that in spring folk long to go on package holidays, or something like that. Chance would be a fine thing. The nearest we get to a break is a change of job. After the furore of my last...
The University of Central England Birmingham sought internal auditing advice from legendary fraudster Nick Leeson last week. The former money market trader whose covert activities led to the collapse...
Cutting red tape is a tricky business, but it appears that auditing bodies feel it more acutely than most. According to the Quality Assurance Agency for 糖心Vlog's annual accounts, "...
Ferrying vice-chancellors from A to B is rather less costly than the above, but the University of Central Lancashire is still prepared to pay up to Pounds 16,000 for a "smart, professional and...
Meanwhile, affairs between academics and students will be condoned in Croatia's capital if the new code of behaviour issued by Zagreb University is anything to go by. It states that voluntary sexual...
Matthias Kuntzel says Leeds University's decision to cancel his lecture on anti-Semitism in Islam has worrying implications. At 1pm on March 14, I arrived in Leeds to be told that the university,...