Israel's university authorities are planning to attract students from neighbouring Arab states to a new university in Eilat. A five-year plan for higher education has been drafted by Nehemia Levtzion...
Spain's version of the Dearing report was launched last week to student protests in Barcelona against the "creeping privatisation" of higher education. Report author Josep Maria Bricall played down...
A bronze tablet, inscribed with more than 200 words of Etruscan text, has increased the known vocabulary of the ancient language by 10 per cent. The Tabula Cortonensis, which was discovered near...
Artificial lips playing notes on a real trumpet are one of the attractions at a new interactive sound laboratory in the world's oldest musical instruments museum. Visitors to the Edinburgh University...
American universities typically generate $5 million (Pounds 3.1 million) a year from developing and delivering programmes for corporate universities, a survey has found. Private-sector institutions...
Dundee and St Andrews universities have dismissed newspaper claims that they are planning to merge. The two universities have recently agreed to set up a "preferred partnership" to discuss working...
Sandra Dawson, director of the Judge Institute of Management Studies, has been named Businesswoman of the Year at the Cambridge Evening News Business Excellence Awards. Professor Dawson joined the...
Nice to get a good review from Michael Beloff of my book, The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England and Wales, which was said to be written by Andrew Bonard and Jennifer Levin ("Lawyers are no...
Researchers from the Face Processing Research Group have pioneered a new system of compiling E-fits of criminal suspects. The group, based at the University of Leicester, the Open University and...
The House of Commons select committee is right to look urgently at student support in United Kingdom universities. Decisions in Scotland following the Cubie report are creating new anomalies even as...
British academics are too white and too male, and too few come from Britain's disabled population. The government wants universities to do something about these problems. In response, the sector is...
Last week we looked at higher education funding in ߣߣÊÓƵ. This week, Stanley Aronowitz examines the situation in the United States The American academic system is divided along two axes: private...
Ministers have agreed in principle to allow universities to charge top-up fees after unofficial negotiations with vice-chancellors, a senior MP has said. Phil Willis, the Liberal Democrat education...
Scottish Executive abolishes fourth-year fees for all UK students Final-year tuition fees are to be scrapped for English, Welsh and Northern Irish students studying four-year honours degrees at...
American academics are increasingly ready to forgo the security of tenure in exchange for competitive salaries and research freedom, a Harvard Graduate School of Education survey reveals today. The...