The government has launched a raft of proposals designed to help women carve out careers in science, engineering and technology. Trade and industry secretary and minister for women, Patricia Hewitt,...
Proposals for sweeping reforms to the structure of Welsh higher education came under fire this week from vice-chancellors and union leaders. Heads of member institutions of the University of Wales...
Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities are today celebrating Burns night by launching research for an electronic archive dedicated to the languages of Scotland. There are already electronic libraries of...
More productive partnerships between schools, colleges and universities are vital to boost student demand for higher education. That is the message coming from the responses to a ÌÇÐÄVlog...
Young people from ethnic minorities are more likely to live at home as undergraduates because of fears about co-educational universities, according to a new survey. As a result, they are more likely...
The legacy of a 7,000-year-old metal-mining and smelting centre is still polluting the neighbouring environment. A team of British researchers has found that copper mining in southern Jordan, which...
Lists of endangered species designed to protect flora and fauna may themselves be condemning a substantial proportion of plants and animals to extinction. Australian botanist Mark Burgman, of...
A proposal from Cardiff University and the University of Wales College of Medicine for a multi-million pound "virtual genetics" knowledge park for Wales was unveiled this week. The Wales Gene Park...
More than one in three Australian undergraduates fails to complete their three and four-year bachelor degrees within six years and at least three in every ten are unlikely ever to graduate, new...
New Zealand universities are predicting growth of more than 20 per cent in international student numbers this year, due to a low exchange rate, agreements with Chinese universities and a flood of...
An international bond-rating agency has reported that the recession and concerns about terrorism will cut revenues from tuition, private contributions and income from investments at American...
United States secretary of state Colin Powell is pushing for more money for the prestigious Fulbright programmes in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington. Precise...
Catholic theology professors at Prague's Charles University must overhaul and modernise the way their faculty works to avoid closure, university rector Ivan Wilhelm has said. The long-running dispute...
The arts will play a greater part in mainstream university studies following an agreement signed last week by education minister Jack Lang and culture minister Catherine Tasca. The agreement brings...
The South African government is facing fierce resistance to its efforts to streamline higher education, with one university going to court to stop an ordered merger and another successfully fighting...