Small, remote rural communities, even in developed countries, find it hard to attract and retain physicians. Around the world, experts agree that medical training needs to be located in these areas...
Washington More American students are applying for aid to cover the cost of tuition, room and board. Some 55 per cent of undergraduates and 60 per cent of graduates asked for cash in 1999-2000, a...
A new managerial cost-cutting culture is coming to Japan's universities, write Bern Mulvey and Charles Jannuzi. In a long-anticipated move, the Japanese government has decided in principle to grant...
French education minister Jack Lang has bowed to pressure from philosophy teachers to neutralise reforms due to start in lycees in September, despite claims by an opposing group of philosophers and...
An internal committee at Haifa University has found that a masters thesis presented by Teddy Katz contained fabricated quotes purporting to come from veterans involved in an incident at the village...
The University of Zimbabwe is heading for crisis, with looming student anger over a whopping rise in fees and the university set to lose crucial donor funding. As a state body, the university -...
New England, the undisputed home of higher education in the United States, is confronting a sudden erosion of its dominance. The region's disproportionate share of the country's university students...
Vietnam's prime minister has issued an urgent plea to the country's universities to raise standards to meet the demands of a modern economy. In a speech to lecturers at the National University of Ho...
More ߣߣÊÓƵn technical and further education colleges are awarding degrees despite strong opposition from the country's vice-chancellors. The sector enrols more than 1 million students on...
Six years ago a Sardinian mathematician with a passion for music started a free hi-fi web magazine aimed at cutting through the hype of the commercial press. Now www.tnt-audio.com boasts 1.5 million...
The UK government has backed seven new multimillion-pound university partnerships with business, including a project to develop nanotechnologies to create gas sensors for use in aircraft fuel tanks....
Tan Sri Abdullah Sanusi, president of the fledgling Malaysian Open University, has finalised an e-learning deal with Heriot-Watt University to give new Malaysian students access to Heriot-Watt's...
Six French "digital campuses" will open in October, pioneers in a government-sponsored attempt to provide online courses. Each is a consortium between institutions specialising in law, business or...
Games and case studies must play a growing role in university teaching to counteract the trend towards computer-based learning, according to a teaching expert. Speaking at the recent conference of...
US academics are campaigning for the release of Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian postgraduate student who has been arrested and held in custody in the United States for violating security provisions in...