Academic access to Turkey's Ottoman archives, which could shed light on Armenian claims of a genocide, is being manipulated by the authorities. The Turkish government has disputed motions in European...
Young Australians from urban areas are far more likely to attend university than those outside the big cities, according to a team of researchers with the federal education department. The main cause...
As Japan's academic year gets under way, university heads are growing worried that a greying population could eventually force universities to recruit students rather than select them. In the past...
The United States government plans to charge international students a fee to fund an anti-terrorism monitoring system that will keep track of their addresses and academic status at all times. To pay...
Argentina will introduce legislation to restrict student entry to the country's universities. Rising student dropout figures, overcrowded lecture halls and saturated labour markets, especially in...
The rain in Spain may fall mainly on the plain, but what about the rain in the Thames Valley? Farmers, insurers and others need to know, and a start-up company from Reading University's Centre for...
The University of Abertay, Dundee, is joining forces with information technology giant NCR to encourage more software engineers to study and work in Scotland. To mark the launch of the partnership,...
Higher education is facing a cultural crisis as young people grow up with increasingly multisensory systems of communication, an expert has warned. Walter Stewart, director of global marketing,...
Global digital radio networks offering "sound vitamins" for the elderly could help slow ageing. An international research project funded by the European Union has been launched to test a system that...
Ulster University has teamed up with Greenmount College of Agriculture and Horticulture to offer Northern Ireland's first degree programme in information technology tailored for the agricultural and...
Academics researching city life will find many out-of-print or hard-to-find texts, some republished for the first time in 30 years, at an online academic archive of urban writing and images launched...
Southampton Institute's business school is at the hub of an international network of students that spans Mexico, the United States, Finland and Ukraine working on marketing projects. The scheme...
Glasgow Caledonian University has created the first Scottish retail chair in partnership with Scotmid, one of the country's leading co-operative chains. Caledonian Business School has appointed...
A strategic alliance including the nine universities in the Yorkshire and Humber region has been launched in collaboration with Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency. The universities...
Anglia Polytechnic University has won a national prize for innovation in work-based learning. The New Learning Opportunities Award, sponsored by NIACE, the national organisation for adult learning,...