Any attempt to build moral and ethical teaching into a history degree is likely to run into significant problems, warns Christopher Haigh, who chairs Oxford University's faculty board of modern...
The problem-solving prowess of a primitive single-celled organism could soon be helping design communication networks, transport systems and public utility distribution. Scientists have found that...
Managers at Aberdeen University may resort to compulsory redundancies in a bid to shed about 80 posts because they have given staff too little time to go voluntarily, union leaders fear. The...
An "extraordinarily important" series of medieval maps known as the Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes has gone on display for the first time at the Bodleian Library in...
MPs are to grill higher education funding chiefs over whether they should have intervened earlier to rescue the ill-fated e-university project - as a leading expert questions the value of the venture...
Inadequate planning and a reluctance to break with tradition are hindering universities from exploiting the potential of e-learning, a senior academic has warned. Mary Malcolm, professor of lifelong...
Britain's success in recruiting overseas students places too much emphasis on attracting the wealthy who can afford full fees at the expense of the poor who need more scholarship support, MPs heard...
Ministers have pledged to provide up to £3 million a year to foster links between UK universities and their counterparts in developing countries. Hilary Benn, the international development secretary...
The head of one of India's largest pharmaceutical companies has established a £250,000 bursary scheme to help students from developing countries to study at Cambridge University, writes Paul Hill....
Armed tax police have raided British Council offices in Moscow and eight of its other centres across Russia in a dispute over earnings from English-language teaching. The move, which is an apparent...
Academics and other staff at Otago University have been issued with pre-emptive suspension notices 24 hours before they were due to walk out in protest at stalled pay negotiations. Unions are...
Human rights pressure group Scholars at Risk has expressed concern at an order from Saparmurat Niyazov, president of Turkmenistan, that invalidates all degrees received outside the country since 1993...
A Russian arms control researcher jailed in April for 15 years for spying should be released pending a retrial that meets international standards of fairness, according to human rights groups. "Igor...
The European Investment Bank is to lend €35 million (£23 million) to develop the campus of the postgraduate Danube University Krems in Austria. Krems, Europe's only state university for further and...
Poland faces its first potential indictment before the European Court of Human Rights after the deportation last month of Ahmad Ammar, a Yemeni PhD student of law at Poznan University, for posing an...