Lecturers have condemned an attempt by Goldsmiths College to find a £1,000-a-day job for the Oxford politics don Vernon Bogdanor. Professor Bogdanor's proposed appointment as visiting professor at...
University staff are being stifled and demotivated by government-driven micromanagement that could damage the international reputation of British higher education, a government task force has warned...
Humble lichens have long been silent witnesses to humankind's impact on the environment. Now for the first time scientists have coaxed these organisms into revealing the extent to which climate...
Scientists have found a significant association between the use of chlorine dioxide as a disinfectant in the domestic water supply and the incidence of severe congenital heart defects in infants,...
The National Health Service is offering student bursaries and providing salaried placement years for degrees, signalling a new government strategy to plug healthcare skills gaps. The NHS is to...
Half of ߣߣÊÓƵ's academics are at risk of psychological illness as a result of extreme stress and over-work, a national survey has said. In the survey, staff reported a variety of health problems...
When Scott McLennan began his academic career delving into the history of the earth's surface, he never thought he would eventually be joining a Nasa Mars mission. Now Professor McLennan, from the...
The coveted US internet domain suffix .edu may be opened up to thousands of non-university education institutions later this year. Educause, the non-profit academic body that took over the...
A university degree increases an American's lifetime earnings by nearly $1 million (£630,000), a US Census Bureau report says. University graduates earn almost twice as much as non-graduates. People...
Monash University's stand-in leader has dismissed claims that the institution's reputation has been damaged by the accelerated departure of vice-chancellor David Robinson, writes Geoff Maslen....
Doubling the government stipend that Russian students receive is one proposal under discussion in Moscow, where the modernisation of university funding is high on the political agenda. Boosting...
The European Commission has decided to invest €200 million (£125 million) more in a European equivalent of the Fulbright programme. Erasmus World will open universities in the European Union to...
An ߣߣÊÓƵn academic whose sacking early last year for claiming that he had been ordered to raise the marks of two students resulted in an international boycott of the University of Wollongong has...
As a result of international pressure, the East Jerusalem offices of Sari Nusseibeh, president of the University of Al-Quds, re-opened on Monday after he promised to refrain from acting on behalf of...
Students at Benin's national university are threatening to boycott lectures when the next session begins in October. The action is a protest against the arrest in March of two student union leaders...