Developing countries should accept that they cannot reverse the brain drain, South Africa's Education Minister has told Commonwealth vice-chancellors. Instead they should concentrate on making use of...
New Zealand's Government has sent a clear message to universities that it wants more say in deciding which courses it funds. Michael Cullen, the Tertiary Education Minister, gave assurances that...
Human Rights Watch has protested to President Bashar al-Asad about the recent wave of arrests of pro-democracy activists in Syria. This includes the detention by the Syrian Air Force Intelligence...
The Nicolaus Copernicus University of Torun has begun to train experts for Poland's Internal Security Agency. The two-year course will cover the sociological aspects of security, the history of the...
Beauty firm L'Oréal and the Community of European Management Schools and International Companies are to award scholarships to students from non-European associate member institutions in Mexico and...
Fourth-year student Laura Swinton is aghast at the AUT and Natfhe's unfair, disrespectful and callous exam boycott In the stand-off between the lecturers' unions and university managers, neither side...
The existence of contemporary universities is largely justified by the boost they give to the economy. The universities may not sign up to this as wholeheartedly as governments do. But few academics...
CRAZY: The UK number one single by Gnarls Barkley The conventional wisdom is that if the pop charts ever mattered, they don't anymore. They no longer serve as a barometer of the taste and cultural...
Ulster University's Richard Lynn continues to alienate much of the human race with his controversial theories on IQ. This time he has hurt Bulgarians' pride by ranking them 19th (equal with France...
The Treasury's sudden foray into research funding policy continues to antagonise those in charge of higher education budgets. The Welsh and Scottish funding chiefs expressed their disquiet at the...
Who said academics were not proud of the size of their endowments? In an unusually frank profile of Stuart Reid, Glasgow University's dean of veterinary medicine, in the university's newsletter, Dr...
Tsk, tsk. One in ten books that academics recommend to their students is out of date or out of print, according to the new website Booksofcourse.com. The company found that 10 per cent of the 2,137...
The panic over H5N1 reveals that even experts are failing to grasp how natural selection works. Paul Ewald breaks the good news. The general public are not the only ones confused about the threat...
Both Left and Right claim visionary Adam Smith for their cause. James Buchan suggests they read his works first. In the transfer of knowledge from the specialist to the public, or from the academy to...
Brussels, 20 April 2006 Commission Decision of 7 April 2006 on the re-use of Commission information (OJ L107/38 20.4.2006). Full text (1) The new information and communication technologies have...