Nearly one in ten staff at the former Luton University believes that they were subjected to "unacceptable" harassment, an internal staff survey has revealed, writes Phil Baty. The survey, released to...
Lecturers' union accuses health and safety watchdogs of paying lip service to tackling stress, unreasonable workloads and bullying in the sector, reports Phil Baty Stress and other work-related...
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has criticised the proliferation of universities in the country. As president of the republic, his role extends beyond that of a figurehead and he has important...
Study of polemic by bin Laden mentor is crucial to fighting extremist threat, argue academics. Geoff Maslen reports ߣߣÊÓƵn academics and university librarians have protested about the forced...
The right-wing Movement against Illegal Migration is targeting foreign students in Russia, claiming there are too many students from the Caucasus. Last month an Indian student in St Petersburg died...
The European Investment Bank is planning to lend E50 million (£34 million) to Turin Polytechnic to help establish an automotive industry research centre, in partnership with GM.
The Virtual University for Small Commonwealth States is to launch its first two programmes in August 2007, Sir John Daniel, president of the Commonwealth of Learning, announced.
Springer has signed a deal with the Indian Academy of Sciences to publish its ten journals and provide access to their content worldwide online. Springer will distribute the print version of the...
A professor at Dhaka University in Bangladesh was shot dead in an attack at his campus home. Aftab Ahmad was the third professor to have been killedJin recent months.
A Spanish academic has helped transform a fledgling gang in Barcelona into an organisation working for social integration. Carles Feixa, lecturer in anthropology at Lleida University, began work with...
France is to introduce a university pre-enrolment scheme to try to cut the failure rate by helping future students choose the right course. The announcement coincided with a demand from university...
Ontario campus accused of last-minute cost-cutting, writes Philip Fine The province of Ontario has introduced an age discrimination law that will make it illegal to force university staff to retire...
The European Commission has started considering the potential shape of the Eighth Framework Programme for research - which would start in 2014 - even as the final details of FP7 are still being...
Islamic fundamentalism threatens Turkey's universities, the country's President Ahmet Sezer warned last week. Speaking to students at the Middle East Technical University, he said: "You should...
Boris Johnson urges a return to academic scholarships to drive up university standards Not long ago I was giving a speech evangelising the benefits of higher education, as I always do. I stressed...