The struggle to widen participation in university medicine and healthcare courses was given a boost this week with the announcement of £3 million additional funding from the Department of Health and...
A trade union activist at Liverpool John Moores University was subjected to a series of false allegations of dishonesty and misconduct by her colleagues, the vice-chancellor has ruled. In one...
The University of Central Lancashire is hoping to take over Northumbria University's campus in Carlisle. Uclan said the takeover would take place next August if the details were successfully worked...
Are the English in Scotland the "auld enemy" or "new Scots"? Conflicting views are set to emerge at a symposium next month organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy and...
A global fund to help rebuild Iraq's universities has been launched by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. Mir Asghar Husain, Unesco's director of education policy...
A first-year student has died in an initiation ceremony at Jakarta's Institute for Public Administration. Wahyu Hidayat is thought to have been a victim of the military-style discipline at the IPA. A...
Israeli scientists could benefit from the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme after an association agreement was put to ministers for approval. The deal would allow research teams from Israel...
Six Chinese universities are being linked this month to form the world's largest grid computing project for education and research. The initiative will create a virtual hub capable of 15 trillion...
Moves to make research that is potentially useful for bioterrorism subject to greater secrecy could deter scientists from carrying out controversial projects. Members of an expert panel of the...
The French are turning to a new university to help lead their fightback against American junk food. The Institute for Higher Studies in Taste and Gastronomy - the world's first gastronomic university...
The Turkish government has temporarily backed down on plans to reform higher education in the face of strong criticism from the country's powerful military. Proposals had been drawn up by the ruling...
A student has won a battle to clear her name after being subjected to a child-abuse investigation prompted by her former social work professor. Earlier this month, a Newfoundland court awarded Wanda...
A little after dawn last Thursday, the first strikers appeared outside the front entrance of RMIT University in Melbourne. A swelling knot of students and lecturers hoisted placards and handed out...
The graffiti daubed on the side of the library building overlooking the National University's Che Guevara Square is blunt: "Don't vote in the referendum - revolution is the solution." But today, it...
Many academics see themselves as mavericks who have to go their own way. This outdated view is bad for everyone, says Bob Brecher Are you thinking of ignoring your manager and ploughing your own...