A resolution supporting foreign lecturers, who claim breaches of European employment law by Italy's universities, failed to win a debate in the European Parliament last week, but is expected to have...
A number of universities in the territories run by the Palestinian Authority are facing a severe funding shortfall. Palestinian universities are private bodies and have little or no state support....
Jack Miller gets his Toronto University class underway by turning off the lights and telling his students to close their eyes. If students monitor their feelings better, they will become better...
A proposed goods and services tax (GST) threatens Australian higher education funding, according to the national academic union. In a submission to a senate inquiry into the tax, the National...
The walkout by Cambodian lecturers and high-school teachers last month was a firebrand protest. Hundreds of them assembled at the education ministry in Phnom Penh with paraffin and a pile of used...
The US Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether public university faculty staff can sue for age discrimination in a case involving more than 30 professors in Florida and Alabama. Lower courts have...
Get a life, virtually speaking. Tony Durham traces the often rugged history of virtuality The word "virtual" is used for many things which are not quite what they seem. But it probably found its way...
Computer arithmetic is not a fast-moving field. World conferences on the subject happen only once every two years, which in "internet time" is like waiting for Halley's comet to come round again....
(Photograph) - To celebrate its 125th anniversary, the Institute of Physics has launched a campaign this month to demonstrate how physics has changed our lives
Get a life, virtually speaking. Hazel Burke explores the sociable side of a virtual campus Bill is a student. It is 10pm on a Saturday night. Where is he? Let us guess. He is checked in at the Log...
Educators are now grappling with the real issues created by the emergence of digital spaces, David Squires reports. Below, Hazel Burke explores the sociable side of a virtual campus Virtual worlds...
The Open University is to invite independent producers to make programmes for the channel in competition with its own production department. Under its new agreement with the 糖心Vlog Funding...
The 1980s and 1990s have seen the effect in Britain of carrot-based funding for universities and colleges. First cuts in university budgets drove colleges out into the world market in search of fee-...
Is our culture dumbing down? There is a dominant view in this heated debate that those who complain are bitter about easier access for more people to higher education and to a culture that was...
The government has announced that there are to be league tables for local authority social services as there are for schools and hospitals. The news came just days after the Universities and Colleges...