The University of Dicle in southeast Anatolia is to work with the government to try to prevent environmental catastrophe in Turkey. Dicle's Bahattin Gumgum said the university had joined with the...
More than a quarter (28 per cent) of students in Germany say they would have sex with a professor or lecturer if they thought it would improve their grades, according to a Playboy magazine survey of...
Researchers at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire are waiting to discover whether plans for a £200 million centre for radiation-source technology will be given the go-ahead. The original bid for...
Wendy Alexander, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, this week launched a review of higher education and pledged it would be put at the top of the Scottish Parliament's agenda....
While first-year students bound for British universities from Pakistan face visa delays, the threat of a six-month moratorium on international students entering the United States has been lifted....
The University of Bath will use its share of £13.7 million knowledge transfer funding to create an enterprise and innovation centre, while the University of Leeds celebrates the opening of its £2.4...
A distance-education institution based on Norfolk Island is suing the ߣߣÊÓƵn Council for Private Education and Training for defamation. Greenwich University, which offers degree courses over the...
Lecturers attack UUK over ombudsman plans Lecturers’ leaders have attacked vice-chancellors for excluding staff complaints from their plans for a higher education ombudsman. Liz Allen, of lecturers’...
Edinburgh University postgraduate Ben Hounsell, 26, has set up a spin off company that aims to make hand-held devices such as phones and digital cameras more flexible. The pioneering H3P technology...
Loughborough University's only student spin-off company has signed a global licensing deal with an American brewer, writes Tim Greenhalgh. Ellula Sounds has produced what is believed to be the world'...
Book publishers want to conduct market research in conjunction with universities to get a better idea of the demand for e-books in UK higher and further education. A report from the Joint Information...
Real-time money The University of Teesside's Virtual Reality Centre has won a £675,000 grant from the Higher Education Innovation Fund to set-up a real-time interaction centre. Part of the money will...
Glasgow University this week launched an MSc in entrepreneurship, funded through the Scottish Institute for Enterprise, which aims to embed an entrepreneurial spirit in higher education. Glasgow set...
It's high time Europe pulled its socks up when it comes to management training, insists John Quelch. The MBA has become the educational standard for United States business. This has not yet happened...
Academics consider Afghanistan's crisis and responses to the war on terrorism: Afghanistan. Our nation has been taken hostage by an international terrorist network. There is no infrastructure in...