Bavaria has boosted its bid to become Germany's "elite" university state after Edmund Stoiber, the regional prime minister, unveiled a set of courses to rival Harvard University. Ten elite courses...
Syria has banned Turkish students who want to study religion from its private schools as part of a crackdown on radical Islamic groups in the aftermath of last November's al-Qaida suicide attacks in...
The numbers of young women wearing headscarves, young men sporting beards and people selling religious tracts on Morocco's university campuses are higher than ten years ago. But there are signs that...
Spanish universities face sweeping changes after voters brought the Socialist Party to power in a surprise victory after the Madrid bombing. The socialists have promised to increase funding and to...
Lambert's proposal for a new stream of funding for business-relevant research is vital, argues Alan Reed. When the government publishes its ten-year investment framework for science and innovation...
'Who can communicate in a language that's the love child of post-structuralism and the Institute for Learning and Teaching? Lots of people, apparently' I'd do anything to avoid work, except go to...
The annual earnings received by Sir Richard Sykes as rector of Imperial College London - some £250,000 last year, placing him second in the league table of vice-chancellors' pay - do not form the...
Congratulations to students at Warwick University who have snatched back the record for the world's largest pillow fight from a US upstart. The students first claimed the record three weeks ago, with...
The lunch for female achievers hosted by the Queen earlier this month was graced by just one English vice-chancellor - Bernadette Porter, rector of Roehampton, University of Surrey. Dr Porter, who is...
Researchers from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen last week began sea trials of a prototype turbine platform that they hope will revolutionise the renewable energy industry by generating tidal...
Monday Courtesy of an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, I'm en route to New York to interview Richard Foreman, the avant-garde writer and director. Foreman is virtually unknown to UK...
According to my university student union, I am a racist. For two years before starting my masters degree, I worked for an anti-racism charity, and as an undergraduate I was active in tackling racism...
The UK could profit from the US' politicking with basic biomedical research, says Roger Pedersen If you've seen the movie The Graduate, you'll remember the scene in which the financier walks over to...
Education is right to nurture sport as it widens access and fosters personal growth, says Deian Hopkin Almost 50 years ago, a 25-year-old student doctor ran the first four-minute mile, at Oxford...
... or dealing with the media. Tim Birkhead offers a few tips on how to keep those scientific credentials intact You are completing your PhD when you have just had the good fortune, good supervision...