More than 1,500 Singaporean students are expected to enrol with Scotland's Interactive University, generating an anticipated £6 million over the next three years, writes Olga Wojtas. The news was...
American university students remain largely cloistered from international affairs in spite of wars and worldwide terrorism, according to a study. The report, from the American Council on Education,...
French education minister Luc Ferry has told universities to attract more foreign students, and to use their increased powers to strengthen their public-service ethos. He said they had to resist...
South Africa's technikons (polytechnics) are to be renamed universities of technology in a repackaging exercise that has also established identities for new institutions created by a dozen mergers...
The education committee of the Slovakian parliament is to reverse September's law abolishing tuition fees for external students. The legislation gave students the right to study free and banned...
New Zealand universities are setting student fees for 2004 within limits they criticised when they were announced earlier this year. Although the government's hope that rises would be less than the...
A fourfold jump in the number of students seeking access to higher education in other countries by 2025 is predicted by researchers from IDP Education ߣߣÊÓƵ - from 2 million this year to 7.6...
Loyiso Nongxa's appointment as the first black vice-chancellor of the University of the Wi****ersrand is a South African success story, writes Karen MacGregor in Durban. Professor Nongxa, who had a...
One way to ensure cash for higher education is for each generation to invest in the next, argues Rob Marris Whether top-up fees will have the positive effect on university funding suggested in the...
Britain's best-known female scientist has hit back at her critics after a Nobel laureate attacked her latest book in this week's THES . Philip Anderson begins his review of Oxford professor Susan...
Funding chiefs look set to sidestep the government's controversial proposals for further concentration of research as set out in January's higher education white paper. The move represents a near-...
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu is about to take up his first academic appointment. The former general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, who was awarded the peace prize in 1984 for his...
High levels of a fungal toxin have been found in organic maize products sold in British shops, prompting top scientists to question the safety of this increasingly popular approach to agriculture....
MPs and charities are calling on the government to ringfence cancer research funding amid fears that millions of pounds that could help find a cure is being spent on red tape. The Department of...
Senior academics at Leeds University have voted in favour of national bargaining, undermining threats by the elite Russell Group, of which Leeds is a member, to set its own pay. The university's...