Scotland's pioneering student complaints system, launched for a trial period last year, has not overwhelmed the independent reviewer appointed to consider appeals. There were fears Colin MacAulay QC...
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts has been swamped with applications for its dance, acting and music courses despite being dogged by financial and management problems in the past. According...
London-based Trinity College of Music and the Laban dance centre are to merge, giving students from the two disciplines the opportunity to collaborate. Under merger plans, the two institutions will...
Education is not always helpful in alleviating the problems caused by conflict and sometimes even exacerbates the situation, an Ulster University expert has warned, writes Olga Wojtas. Alan Smith,...
Football may be the ultimate symbol of Scottish machismo, but a Stirling University research student has uncovered evidence of women playing football as early as the 1600s. Jessica Macbeth, a PhD...
The first national strike by higher education staff and students was expected to close or disrupt most of Australia's 40 universities this Thursday. Tens of thousands of members of the four staff...
'Congratulations - you've just killed a book' is the slogan posted in Italy's universities in a bid to curb wholesale photocopying of books by students and academics, writes Paul Bompard. The...
The Russian physicist being tried for selling secrets to China is to put academic freedom in the political spotlight by standing for election to the state parliament on a protest ticket, writes Nick...
Two senior members of the Portuguese government have resigned amid allegations that they abused their positions to secure a place at medical school for the foreign minister's daughter. Diana Martins...
Princeton University is fighting to keep an endowment worth more than $500 million (£300 million) after the donor demanded it be returned to his family's foundation. William Robertson, heir to a...
Two centuries of Russian academic excellence could be squandered in the rush to standardise higher education across Europe, academics have warned. Leaders of Russia's top universities voiced their...
Arnold Schwarzenegger was not the only winner in the California elections. Opponents of a proposal to prevent public universities from collecting information about the ethnic origins of individuals...
The proportion of the US population pursuing higher and further education is falling behind other industrialised countries, according to the Education Commission of the States. The non-partisan body...
Student complaints have prompted a Macedonian university to pulp a new politics textbook written by three of its professors because it described Nato and the US as the "world's leading terrorists"....
Plans to privatise Hungary's universities and higher education colleges have raised fears of job losses and a narrowing of the range of subjects on offer. The country's Trade Union of Higher...