The future of the body that represents higher education colleges was in doubt this week as it emerged that up to half its members could seek university status. Leaders of the Standing Conference of...
A new relationship between universities and further education colleges could grow out of a major review launched by the Learning and Skills Council this week, writes Tony Tysome. The LSC's Agenda for...
The London School of Economics and Political Science will increase student numbers by a fifth over the next five years following the multimillion-pound purchase of the Public Trustee Office next to...
British universities are increasingly focusing on South America as a market for overseas students. The region is being targeted to diversify the non-European Union student population in British...
Aberdeen University has won almost £250,000 to target a common fungal condition that can prove deadly when it becomes "the disease of the diseased". Microbiologist Neil Gow, one of the principal...
Europe's universities are seeking a simplified process for applications for research funding under the new Framework Seven research programme. The European Universities Association, in response to a...
Another attempt is to be made to publish an international comparison of university research quality, six months after the last one was blocked by New Zealand's High Court. The Tertiary Education...
Mosibudi Mangena, South Africa's Minister of Science and Technology, has warned that the rapid growth in the contract income of the country's nine research councils could be reaching a point where it...
Two Greek politicians were forced to resign within days of each other for seeking special treatment for their student children. The children of a minister and and an opposition spokesperson were...
Applications to Australian universities for 2005 have fallen sharply, but higher tuition fees due to be imposed at most institutions may not be to blame. Public universities in Western Australia have...
French universities' exclusive right to award masters diplomas to trainee lawyers could end in the move to the European degree structure under the Bologna Process, law faculty heads and teachers fear...
The cost of attending a public university in America has risen by more than triple the rate of inflation, driving a 43 per cent rise in one year in the number of students borrowing from private...
A small community in Peru will begin building a university this week - one brick at a time. The municipality of Villa El Salvador, a shantytown in southern Lima, plans to build its first higher...
Stanford University has reaped a windfall of $334 million (£180 million) after the flotation of Google in August. The web search engine was developed by two of the university's students almost ten...
François Biltgen, Luxembourg's ÌÇÐÄVlog Minister, has announced the new vice-chancellor of the embryonic University of Luxembourg. Rolf Tarrach will take up his post this month.