Oxford University plans to reveal the academic performance of students graduating from each of its 30 colleges in an official annual table after The Times Higher reported concerns that the unofficial...
Paris. A full government ministry for higher education, research and technology, an elected high-level scientific council, and a stronger research role for universities are the main recommendations...
Thabo Mbeki, the South African President, has signalled to Tony Blair that the rehabilitation of Africa's run-down universities should be high on the agenda at next year's Scotland summit of the...
Rome. Italy's Pisa University is helping to develop a contender for the 2007 America's Cup to challenge the reigning champion, the Swiss yacht Alinghi . The university has signed up with +39, one of...
German and ߣߣÊÓƵn rectors and vice-chancellors have held talks in Canberra on university priorities in the two countries, including future developments in teaching and research, and issues...
Stavanger University College will become Norway's fifth official university on January 1, the Prime Minister and the Education Minister announced. It is Norway's first new university since the...
The Belarusian Academy of Sciences has no president for the first time in its 76-year history. Alexander Lukashenko, the country's President, insists on being the only person in the country with the...
An agreement between Albania and Greece to produce joint university textbooks in history, geography and economics is at risk. The attempt to defuse contentious issues between the two states by...
A computer technician at the University of Georgia was apparently so upset at the result of the recent US presidential election that he shot himself at New York's Ground Zero.
Melbourne. ߣߣÊÓƵn higher education faces more upheaval as John Howard's re-elected Government pushes ahead with more reforms that will strip the states of their remaining powers over universities...
Graz. An Austrian newspaper campaigning for the homeless has set up a project that will allow those living on the streets to attend university lectures. The Graz-based newspaper Megaphon says...
A Europe-based consortium is seeking money to build a polar research ship as the European Commission considers promoting studies into the North Pole. If the commission approves the idea of a...
Buenos Aires. A former rector of the University of Buenos Aires faces up to six years in prison for not declaring eight properties in the US, adding to the woes of Argentina's biggest university....
Africa has had great universities. Higher education on our continent stretches back to Ancient Egypt, where the temples imparted knowledge not only to Africans, but also to many of those who were to...
Depression has set in since George W. Bush won another four years, but every cloud has a silver lining. Last week began rather well. One of my PhD students passed his viva, my group was shortlisted...