Brussels, 03 Sep 2004 Europe's incoherent research infrastructure is preventing mobility and putting European research at risk, according to the Chief Executive of the European Science Foundation,...
Brussels, 03 Sep 2004 An international symposium on justice and healthcare and the trend towards predictive medicine will be held in Brussels, Belgium, on 22 and 23 November. The symposium will be...
Paris, 03 Sep 2004 Images Hurricanes are one of those forces of nature that can only fully be captured by satellite imagery. For Hurricane Frances, currently thundering towards the United States...
A venture to involve aboriginal Canadians by taking classes to remote communities and giving them a final say on curriculum and research has led to a dramatic rise in numbers of enrolments. The ten-...
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Complicated visa rules and concern about a hostile welcome have deterred international students from enrolling at US universities, Jon Marcus writes. The proportion of foreign students at US...
Turkey has warned universities that student demonstrations on their premises will be regarded as "terrorist or anarchist activities" and that anyone taking part will put their scholarship at risk. A...
Aptitude tests will be introduced from 2006 onwards to select students for entry to Ireland's five medical schools, Education Minister Noel Dempsey has said. He accepted the report of a working group...
President George W. Bush has called for an end to the kind of preference in American university admission widely believed to have benefited him and other well-connected students. So-called legacy...
European education ministers will consider plans to raise standards of doctoral programmes across the Continent when they meet in Norway next May. The Bergen meeting, which is part of the Bologna...
A petition urging a posthumous retrial for a Croatian minister executed for alleged collaboration with the Nazis during the Second World War has been signed by 120 academics and scholars. Mile Budak...
With growing global competition for students, the UK can't afford to rest on its laurels, says Tessa Blackstone At the start of a new term, British universities will welcome more international...
It's a hard life being a vice-chancellor. Not only do they have to make do with the dwindling amount of cash in the institutional pot, but they also have so many different people to please - students...
C. Duncan Rice, Aberdeen University's principal, wanted an explanation when he discovered that Lori Manders, director of external affairs, would not be attending an important senior management...
Some 140 law students at the University of London faced an unexpected early end to an exam on Tuesday last week after a bomb threat to Senate House forced an evacuation of the building. An...