Lecturers' union leaders were celebrating a breakthrough this week in efforts to resolve their dispute with employers over pay and conditions. But the celebrations looked like being short-lived, as...
Colleges are stemming the flow of drop-outs and are helping more students to gain qualifications, according to figures from the Further Education Funding Council. The FEFC's performance indicators,...
The Queen has delivered a stinging rebuke to Leicester University for failing to take "due regard" of her legal role as its arbiter of disputes. She also criticised the university for "discourtesy"....
A researcher at a private laboratory near Cremona faces a sentence of three months in prison and a fine of ¤205 (Pounds 133) for allegedly cloning a bullock from the blood cells of a bull....
Swedish universities will be able to take 10,500 extra students in 2001 and 2002 with extra money in the 2000 budget for education and research, earmarked for natural sciences and technology. The...
Freshers at the University of East London have a good excuse if they are less than fresh at the moment. Halls of residence on their flagship new Pounds 40 million docklands campus have an...
A management move to shed 100 academics as part of a Pounds 25 million restructuring plan at Queen's University, Belfast has fallen short of its target by more than 20. The university set September...
Cambridge University is to shake off its image as solely science-led to challenge its rival Oxford's perceived superiority in the arts, writes Phil Baty. Cambridge vice-chancellor Alec Broers in his...
'It is the practice for students who achieve a fail grade to be offered a multidisciplinary masters rather than a postgraduate diploma' Students who fail masters degree courses at Middlesex...
Melton Mowbray College governors have commissioned an independent investigation into Whistleblowers' revelations that the college has recruited suspected illegal immigrants as students. The decision...
As universities strive to snare paying overseas students, academics can get caught in an ethical trap. Harriet Swain reports. You have been seconded from your university to teach at a private...
Italy's cabinet has backed the founding outside Turin of the country's branch of an Italo-French university agreed last October. The French campus is in Grenoble. Enrolments in the bilingual...
University Technology Malaysia is to train 15 military officers in ballistics and explosives under an agreement with the Malaysian defence ministry.
Students taking part in a five-month anti-fees strike at Mexico's National Autonomous University have demanded the rector's resignation and negotiations. The university, with 268,000 students, is the...
Academics at the University of Hull raised concerns about an MA programme in security studies on which seven high-ranking Indonesian army officials were studying last year. Student campaigners also...