The US Secretary of Education has demanded that US universities be held more accountable for their costs and the success or failure of their students while promising a "robust national dialogue",...
When the Boston archdiocese suffered a child-abuse scandal similar to the one at Gonzaga University in the 1990s, it delivered a near-fatal wound to the Catholic Church. But the crisis prompted the...
A university head allegedly molested boys in the 1960s, writes Jon Marcus Church officials at a Catholic university in the US Pacific Northwest have admitted that they covered up the alleged sexual...
An Italian sociology professor has been accused of swindling about 1,000 Italian police officers out of fees for a bogus course to acquire credits for a university degree. A year ago, Italy's Union...
Australia's new anti-terrorism laws are affecting serious research on Islamic fundamentalism, writes Geoff Maslen. A respected academic who won one of Australia's biggest research grants has been...
French scientists are furious about alleged government plans to gain control over the forthcoming Research Evaluation Agency. The mounting protest is the latest in more than two years of revolt...
Israel's seven research universities will remain closed when the new academic year begins next month unless the Government hands over more than 350 million shekels (£44 million) that have been cut...
The belief that academics can speak only in their expert field stifles debate before it begins, argues Roy Harris. Freedom of speech is often regarded as imposing some responsibilities on those who...
I did think of writing about a document someone from somewhere gave me recently entitled Supporting Students with Learning Differences and Disabilities but didn't want to spoil your enjoyment by...
University students in the US are posting videos of their professors delivering lectures without asking for permission from the lecturers. One such victim is Judith Thorpe, whose lecture at the...
So much for free speech on campus. The head of legal services at Sunderland University has had access to a website titled "itspublicknowledge" blocked. A further irony: the site is all about the...
The rumour mill is already busy in the build-up to Oxford University's big vote on its governance reforms, which is set for mid-November. Academics fear that if the reforms are defeated, the...
Greenwich University has had a swift rethink over exactly which workshops it should be offering its academics. The "Programme leaders' workshop" that the university had advertised has been cancelled...
The Thinker - Rodin Royal Academy of Arts, London. Until January 1, 2007 Thought doesn't draw attention to itself. It is usually about something else. We cannot even see thinking taking place....
Autobiographers have an unsettling tendency to embroider the facts of their lives, says John Sutherland. Jane Eyre comes round on television as often as the World Cup, and with almost as much...