Two new research centres are helping to redefine Jewish studies and rescue it from the academic ghetto, write Griselda Pollock and Eva Frojmovic If not yet at the heart of the British university,...
University-branded goods are big business in the US - but it's a different story in the UK. Kate Worsley looks for the bottom line on what a logo is worth in profit and image The last time the...
By cracking the code of a PoW's wartime diary, a mathematician gave a woman a glimpse into her husband's torment and passion. Karen Gold reports In the dining room of the Savoy Hotel, still standing...
In her new book, Marianne Elliott draws on her experiences of growing up a Catholic in Belfast to trace the forces that have fused the country's politics with religion. Anne McHardy reports For...
John Davies chooses some broadcasting highlights (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week While Channel 4 is still focusing on doctors' mistakes (see Sunday and Tuesday), BBC1 presents medicine...
Author of the controversial report published this week on Britain's multi-ethnic future, Bhikhu Parekh argues that we should learn to value our cultural diversity and consign to history attitudes...
(Photograph) - Tina Romanay has her eyes examined at City University's new optometry department, which has moved to Bath Street, next door to Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. Photograph by JOEL CHANT
Police have closed the women's department of the Afghan University in Peshawar, Pakistan, claiming it is located in a residential district where commercial, business and higher education activities...
Bolivian undergraduate students on law, psychology, sociology and economics courses at the Universidad Mayor de San Sim"n have been granted equal say with their professors in appointing teaching...
Australia's new university graduates have mixed feelings about the quality of teaching they received. A survey of 1999 graduates found that only two in five rated their teaching as good. They were...
Administrative staff at the Association of University Teachers' headquarters clearly feared an outbreak of verbal diarrhoea when a fax machine jammed, blocking all incoming messages. A memo was...
Plans are under way for Slovakia's first Romany university, to be founded in Kosice. The university will have 11 faculties, with tuition conducted in Romany and English. The United Nations, European...
The student loan default rate in the United States has fallen below 7 per cent for the first time since official records began. The proportion of borrowers who defaulted within 12 to 24 months after...
Two university rectors were suspended in Romania after allegations that their institutions were awarding degrees illegally. The two are Dolphi Drimer of the Ecological University in Bucharest and...
Virtual universities built without redesigning the basic structures of institutions are doomed to failure, according to new research, writes Alison Utley. James Cornford, of Newcastle University's...