Many new students start higher education with almost no idea of what their institution or degree course will be like - which makes them more likely to consider dropping out, a study has found, writes...
Students and faculty at some of the top universities in the US are taking action in support of low-paid workers. Some 350 janitors, cleaners, landscapers and painters at the University of Miami went...
An Austrian student union is taking legal action against Graz Medical University on behalf of a student who is demanding compensation for loss of future earnings because of a lack of lectures. The...
Geoff Maslen reports from Melbourne on how academic freedom is being threatened by new sedition legislation ߣߣÊÓƵn vice-chancellors are alarmed by government efforts to tackle terrorism by...
Canada's universities got a cold shower of fiscal thriftiness from its new government's first budget last week. Spending plans announced by the Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper contrast...
Dominique de Villepin, the French Prime Minister, is leading a national debate on strengthening links between universities and employers. The debate was announced at the end of March by President...
Russia must target spending on the most promising areas of pure research if it is to retain a leading role in international science, Vitaly Ginzburg, the Nobel prizewinning physicist, has told...
Europe's universities are riddled with "rigidities and hindrances", the European Commission says in a strategy document published this week that calls for "immediate, in-depth and co-ordinated change...
Close friends of former University of Toronto professor Ramin Jahanbegloo fear he may have been tortured since his arrest at Tehran airport. Mr Jahanbegloo, now head of the Cultural Research Bureau,...
Hundreds of students at the University of Namibia are refusing to eat compulsory breakfasts introduced to improve attentiveness and reduce yawning in lectures. The students say the N$12 (£1) a day...
Croatia is to establish a university in the northern coastal city of Pula to help meet student demand. Education Minister Dragan Primorac says the country's 160,000 undergraduates are only half the...
The Swedish Government has refused to extend the residence permit of Russian biologist Andrei Zamyatin, arrested on espionage charges while working at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences...
The granting of degree-awarding powers to the (private) College of Law may be the thin end of a very significant wedge. The failure of Buckingham University to grow into an institution on the scale...
Chaminda Jayanetti, a final-year student, urges lecturers to continue their action for the good of academe Almost eight out of ten students oppose the exam boycott. Ouch! I don't envy the tutor who...
This country appears to have a strange and growing fascination with "best-of" lists. Barely a week goes by without a television programme describing the top something or other - films, sit-coms,...