Recruiting underqualified candidates to inappropriate courses is the main reason students drop out of university and college, according to research published this week. In interviews with more than...
Universities must continue to safeguard the quality and standards of higher education courses delivered by further education colleges, Alan Johnson, the Higher Education Minister, said this week....
Glasgow University researchers are promoting the benefits of a regular fitness regime - by developing aqua-aerobics for fish. Studies of fish in tanks suggest that if currents are increased to boost...
The Mayor of London and one of the Government's most promising ministers have rounded on Middlesex University for abandoning plans to set up a new campus in the capital while pressing ahead with a...
A Monash University student from China who brought several guns into a commerce tutorial 18 months ago and killed two students, wounded four others and shot his lecturer was last month found not...
A $9 million (£4.9 million) teaching hospital is to be built over the next four years in Qatar's "Education City" - a cluster of educational and research facilities. The Qatar Foundation announced an...
Charles University student Michal Bobek will be the first Jenkins Scholar at Oxford University, studying for the Bachelor of civil law in 2004-06. The award was founded as a memorial to the late Roy...
King Mohammed VI of Morocco was prevented from opening a student hostel named after him at the National University of Benin by demonstrating students who claimed the CFA380 million (£390,000) given...
The Brazilian Order of Lawyers has called for an investigation into the growth of virtual universities offering law courses by moonlighting professors. It fears the proliferation of online courses is...
Five senior Italian cardiologists and medical school teachers have been arrested for allegedly rigging competitive exams for the assignment of university teaching posts. Those under house arrest on...
US presidential candidate John F. Kerry is to campaign on vastly increased federal support for public universities, whose state funding has declined dramatically. The $10 billion (£5.5 billion)...
Opponents of restrictions on religious dress in Turkish universities are to continue their opposition despite last week's European Court of Human Rights ruling that Turkey has the right to enforce a...
Australia's vice-chancellors have called for a massive increase in federal funding of public universities and the creation of thousands more student places. With Prime Minister John Howard expected...
Rising numbers of Canadian students are resorting to food banks because they are being squeezed by climbing tuition fees and a shortfall in loan cash, a survey suggests. Fifty-one of the country's...
Shortfalls in student aid are threatening the South African Government's equity and access goals. Student support is failing to keep up with growing demand for higher education as improving school...