Oxford University is to review its disciplinary procedures after an inquiry into the "distressing and humiliating" ejection of an international scholar from university premises, set up after...
Alison Utley reports on plans for a super-university and a refashioned Northumbria. Britain's first super-university came a step closer this week as the University of Manchester and the University of...
One of Oxford University's most vocal critics has opened a bookshop and gallery in the heart of the dreaming spires as a focal point for dissent and attacks on the institution's establishment. Andrew...
Thousands of university and lycée students protested at the unexpected success of the far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in reaching the second round of the French presidential election this week...
Bath University staff and students are worried that spending on academic facilities is at risk after the university spent more than £1.5 million on a house in a Georgian crescent for the new vice-...
Lord Dearing, author of the 1997 report on higher education, has warned chancellor Gordon Brown that he must invest more in education or risk long-term economic failure. Lord Dearing told the House...
Scotland is to wind down the recent dramatic expansion of its further education sector. The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has set colleges' funding package for 2002-03 at £414 million,...
Visas for students from southern India wishing to study in Britain have trebled in the past four years to 3,000 in 2001, according to the British High Commission. An estimated 7,000 Indian students...
Lyudmila Putina, the wife of the Russian president, has condemned proposals by the Russian Academy of Sciences to reform the Russian language. She said the emphasis should be on "maintaining and...
France needs thousands more school-leavers a year to qualify for university places to fulfil the needs of higher education and the job market, according to a report delivered last week to education...
Russia's first major shake-up in scientific funding and focus for nearly 30 years could transform the image of research institutes as the crumbling casualties of communism's collapse. A policy...
The European Commission has admitted that the Sixth Framework Programme for research will be tailored to a limited number of priority subjects. It is expecting to receive 95 per cent fewer...
Three Kenyan universities are being sued by more than 800 former employees who were laid off two years ago in a staff reduction programme ordered by the government. The 814 administrative, semi-...
US senator and former vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman has called on American universities to make sure students - particularly low-income minorities - graduate on time. To help achieve...
New York's bustling pedestrian traffic has come to a standstill in Times Square, where a crowd is deliberating the proposition: "If Pete sells a 6in pizza for $6, how much should he charge for a 12in...