The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has launched an inquiry into the "dumbing down" of standards at De Montfort University after revelations in The Times Higher . In March, this newspaper reported that...
The chart-topping Crazy Frog ringtone that has half the country hopping mad is evidence of a big shift in teenagers' spending patterns, say sociologists at Birmingham University. As Jamstar's Crazy...
Australian political scientist Kenneth Good was thrown out of Botswana hours after losing his legal battle against deportation for criticising the Government of President Fergus Mogae. Mr Mogae...
The student union at London Metropolitan University has become embroiled in the row between lecturers and managers. Last month, members of lecturers' union Natfhe staged a five-day strike over the...
There isn't much New York real-estate magnate Donald Trump doesn't know about business - and now he wants to share his knowledge through a virtual university. His latest venture is named, of course,...
Students from China and other Asian countries are using fake English-language certificates to try to enrol in overseas universities. Forged English competency certificates have allegedly been issued...
Bogus certificates and study credits purchased over the web are being used to secure jobs and university places in Sweden. The number of university job applicants caught trying to pass off fake...
An international conference on allegations of genocide against Armenians has been postponed indefinitely after the Turkish Government put pressure on the three universities that organised it. The...
Academics in Morocco detect a softening in the state's approach to Islam's dominance in higher education two years after the Casablanca suicide bombs, which were blamed on Islamic militants. Elmahdi...
Plans to introduce student tuition fees in Slovakia have been defeated after key members of the coalition Government crossed the chamber during a parliamentary vote in Bratislava. Twelve members of...
The new rector of Mexico's Autonomous University of Sinaloa faces a Ministry of Education inquiry after a colleague accused him of courting student voters by paying for strippers and prostitutes....
A new project will record what happened to academics who lost their jobs as a result of Franco's purges of Spain's universities after the Spanish Civil War and will honour their memory. By 1945, a...
Organic farming won't feed the world, and its environmental benefits are overrated, say Louise Fresco et al World governments have committed themselves to a double challenge. At the Earth Summit in...
More students means more people with mental health problems, but can universities offer the appropriate support? It's 5.20pm on a Thursday. Only another few hours before security unlock the main...
If a week is a long time in politics, as Harold Wilson said, then a month must be the political equivalent of an age. It is coming up to a month since the general election and even though he has...