A swarm of autonomous robots that can link together to slither, crawl and even roll around obstacles has been created by scientists in a project part funded by the US Department of Defense. The...
Higher education in Wales is heading for a financial crisis unless it gets a significant cash injection, Welsh universities have warned. Figures from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales...
The launch this week of Britain's first university of the arts was followed immediately by proposals for another, as Kent Institute of Art and Design and the Surrey Institute of Art and Design...
Quality watchdogs have "limited confidence" in the control of degree standards and course quality at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication. In an audit report published last week, the...
A political storm has erupted in Northern Ireland over plans by Queen's University Belfast to close a campus not far from the border with the Irish Republic. The "outreach" campus in the province's...
Policy-makers and vice-chancellors must heed academics' concerns before a teaching qualification for lecturers is introduced, union leaders have warned. A consultation paper published last week by...
Journal publishers are battling to discredit the idea of free research results for all on the web after new research commissioned by the Wellcome Trust suggested that it was an economically viable...
Edinburgh University's Playfair library may lack the hardcore cachet of the usual music venue, but this did not stop Alex Kapranos, front man of band-of-the-moment Franz Ferdinand, putting in an...
Universities are failing to comply with disability discrimination laws 18 months after they came into force, a leading law firm said this week after it found 23 problem areas during an audit at the...
Leading Israeli universities have signed an agreement with three Palestinian universities for joint projects in the fields of the environment, regional social and economic development and education....
Kader Asmal, South Africa's education minister, was replaced in last week's post-election reshuffle after five years in charge of the education portfolio. His replacement is Naledi Pandor, 50, who...
Italy's University of Taste has attracted 480 applications from 30 countries for one of 60 places in the 2004-05 academic year. The university, which will award a degree in gastronomy, is supported...
Oscar Berger, the Guatemalan president, has finally acknowledged the Guatemalan government's responsibility for the 1990 killing of Myrna Mack, an anthropologist who was stabbed times outside her...
Romanian university employees have picketed parliament and political party headquarters after academic salaries were, in effect, doubled while university support staff received nothing.
The European Investment Bank has lent €40 million (£22.3 million) to Finland to build, rehabilitate, extend, furnish and equip about 100 buildings for higher education and research throughout the...