University cutbacks have led to the loss of specialist knowledge of Asia, which is undermining diplomatic efforts to combat terrorism, say academics. A third of institutions that conduct research in...
A degree course that provides pathways to careers in the performing arts for people with severe learning difficulties will be launched next year with National Endowment for Science, Technology and...
Oxford University has referred the case of Andrew Wilkie to its disciplinary panel, known as the visitatorial board. Professor Wilkie's dislike of Israeli policy led him to reject an Israeli student...
Charles Clarke urges universities to innovate and embrace e-learning to prepare students for the 21st century The generation who grew up with the internet, emailing and text messaging is now in...
Dumbing down, quantity versus quality? If you feel a Victor Meldrew coming on, remind yourself it's not the world that's decaying, it's you Either Russell Grant or some group of policy advisers - the...
June 2001 They are interviewing me for the position of lecturer: "So, when are you intending to submit your PhD thesis?" I shuffle uneasily in my seat before replying: "Erm, sometime in September."...
Delegates at a recent conference hosted by Scotland's Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning have solved one of those tricky questions that has troubled thinkers for years: how long is a piece of...
So much for the new, improved "light-touch" quality assurance regime that was supposed to herald a new era of public accountability. The first of the new audit reports - on University College...
Greg Walker, a professor of medieval English at the University of Leicester, has got into the groove to assess the literary merits of the latest club mixes. He has reviewed the lyrics to some trance-...
Next week sees the culmination of the lengthy but thrilling - and costly - consultation to decide on a new name for the merged University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of...
The European Commission has launched a research project to combat what may be the continent's most dangerous source of pollution, the accidental release of 5,000 tonnes of biologically active...
Universities in Yorkshire and Humberside are to be given £11 million to set up a chain of showrooms from which to sell their research. Six Centres of Industrial Collaboration (CICs) will be based in...
Negotiations have stalled in a dispute over the withdrawal of a job offer at a Canadian university after the academic in question leaked an independent report into the case. David Noble, professor of...
The Macedonian government has agreed to legalise the ethnic-Albanian unofficial University of Tetovo. Changes to the law on higher education were to be put to parliament later this month. Education...
Italy is trying to catch up with other countries in the development of distance learning. A committee of academics is to evaluate and, if suitable, authorise courses offered by state and private...