Overseas students must be targeted and educational tourism promoted if progress is to be made towards a fully fledged University of the Highlands and Islands, according to a new strategic plan. The...
Many universities are "woefully unprepared" for new disability rights laws and risk prosecution, lecturers' leaders and disability groups have claimed. From next week, all education providers must...
Gene patenting and academic intellectual property rights will be probed by a group of senior scientists and patent experts in a Royal Society investigation, writes Steve Farrar. The working group has...
They have survived for 400 million years and have been dubbed "living fossils". But a leading scientist has warned that the coelacanth may succumb to extinction because of human interference unless...
Beatlemania has returned to Bangor University 35 years after a visit from the "Fab Four". Previously unseen film footage of the Beatles arriving in Bangor by train in 1967 was screened at the...
An Open University graduate has handed back his degree certificates in protest after he failed to get chartered engineer status. Chris Addis finished his honours degree before realising that the...
Plans to introduce a Welsh baccalaureate in secondary schools and colleges in Wales next year have attracted the interest of Whitehall, writes Tony Tysome. According to Jane Davidson, the Welsh...
Aspiring members of the Institute for Learning and Teaching are having applications returned with a request for an extra £10 and more information despite beating the deadline before the introduction...
Weasels might not seem the ideal creature to have as a pet but the Romans may have preferred them to cats, writes Steve Farrar. Bones excavated from the city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by the...
Cambridge's ancient system of governance is ripe for change, but its academics fear their influence will be eroded by administrators and the governing council. Phil Baty listens to the rumblings of...
Ten MBA students are suing their university after it quadrupled tuition fees three months after they were accepted on the programme. They argue that the University of British Columbia should not...
A case of sexual harassment at the open learning University of South Africa (Unisa), involving council chairman McCaps Motimele and former English professor Margaret Orr, has ended with the chairman'...
Being a former member of the Clinton administration seems to have become a prerequisite for running US universities, writes John Marcus. Richard Celeste took office this summer as president of...
A researcher has been accused of stealing trade secrets from a US university laboratory, the second such case in as many months. Yin Qingqiang was arrested while trying to pass through a security...
Nigeria is combating a dearth of academic books and journals through a national virtual library project that is set to serve 18 study centres across the country. The Nigerian minister for education,...