An Austrian petition is calling for free access to state-run educational institutes and more funding for student grants. The petition, which was launched by Austria's student union, also seeks the...
The rectors of Rome's three state universities have lashed out at spending cuts on higher education in this year's budget. The cuts coincide with a sudden surge in enrolments after years in which...
The first fully implantable biochip has been developed by Cambridge University scientists to monitor aspects of a person's metabolism from within their body. A prototype device to allow diabetics to...
With an average weight of 60g, it is small wonder that the BBC's Walking With Beasts overlooked the Paleocene's micromammals in favour of hulking mammoths, smilodons and giant sloths. Yet the 50...
Scottish higher education spin-out companies have been pitching for more than £15 million at the fifth annual Connect investment conference, which plays matchmaker between new ventures and investors...
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council will publicly launch a pioneering national website on research expertise at a knowledge-transfer conference later this month. Shefc is co-hosting the...
An online translating and interpreting service offered by Queen's University Belfast has scooped an award in the province that will take it to national finals in London later this month, writes Olga...
Thomas Bingham , senior lord of appeal in ordinary, has been appointed high steward by the chancellor of the University of Oxford . The Scottish Executive has appointed: Noni Cobban , researcher in...
Ted Davis , professor of experimental physics at the University of Leicester, has been made an honorary citizen of Nice . Mark Dyer , a senior circuit judge and honorary recorder of Bristol, has...
The Scottish Funding Councils for Further and Higher Education have at last announced the successor to their joint chief executive, John Sizer, who retires at the end of the year. The delay sparked...
The University of North London has a new students' union website showing photographs of happy students while the words "politics" and "representation" float around the screen. Very nice. Until you...
Queen's University, Belfast, has launched a £150 million fundraising campaign with a poem composed by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, a Queen's alumnus and staff member. It has a recurring refrain of...
The election of Graeme Catto as the president of the General Medical Council is a double victory for King's College, London. Professor Catto is vice-principal at King's and dean of the Guy's, King's...
If one can assess the quality of a restaurant's kitchen by examining the state of the toilets, then the service provided by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service must be amazing. Its...
Scotland's enterprise and lifelong learning minister, Wendy Alexander, has come under fire. Following her recent visit to scientific establishments in Finland, Tory MSP David Mundell questioned her...