A demand for a stronger student voice at the higher levels of European higher education decision-making was due to be presented to European Union education ministers in Brussels this week. Jack Lang...
The decision by Israel's university heads to ban political activity on campuses in the first week of the academic year failed to deter the country's Israeli Arab students from their long-term...
Dropout rates among postgraduate trainee teachers increased dramatically in the first two years of Labour's administration, according to the latest figures. The proportion of students who started...
Television star Ross Kemp, the student-elected rector of Glasgow University, has resigned four weeks after a no-confidence vote from the Students' Representative Council. Students questioned Mr Kemp'...
* An independent body will be set up by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust to look after the proposed UK population genetic database. The move follows the first round of public...
The Royal Society has called for a change in the law to allow researchers to carry out human embryo research to develop stem cell therapies. Its call was condemned by the pressure group Campaign...
The University of Warwick has become such a successful venue for conferences that it is having trouble finding a home for all the hospitality trophies it has won. Its latest award for "hospitality...
Universitas 21, a British company formed by 18 universities worldwide, is reported to be in negotiations with a major American corporation following the collapse of its partnership with Worldwide...
Women are more likely than men to go into jobs from Scottish sub-degree courses, while men are more likely to go on to further study. Some 45 per cent of female diploma recipients take a job. But...
York University was struggling to stay in operation this week following the worst flooding in the city for more than 400 years. Staff and students were being asked not to take baths and to keep loo-...
Thirty-nine of Eastern Europe's leading universities and colleges have signed a declaration calling for greater recognition and support for liberal arts education in the region. The "declaration of...
A network of enterprise hubs linked to local universities will soon be providing support to entrepreneurs and start-up businesses across southeast England. According to Anthony Dunnett, chief...
Peter Denyer, the Edinburgh University professor who founded the spin-off "camera-on-a-chip" Vision Company, has helped found another spin-off that aims to become the world's leading provider of...
The millennium year will be remembered as the period in which Italian universities took to online teaching with gusto. As the academic year began in Italy's 65-odd state universities, from the Alps...
Online students at the University of Phoenix get better results than their counterparts who physically attend classes, according to its former president. Jorge Klor de Alva last month told the Fusion...