Two senior members of the Portuguese government have resigned amid allegations that they abused their positions to secure a place at medical school for the foreign minister's daughter. Diana Martins...
Princeton University is fighting to keep an endowment worth more than $500 million (£300 million) after the donor demanded it be returned to his family's foundation. William Robertson, heir to a...
Two centuries of Russian academic excellence could be squandered in the rush to standardise higher education across Europe, academics have warned. Leaders of Russia's top universities voiced their...
Arnold Schwarzenegger was not the only winner in the California elections. Opponents of a proposal to prevent public universities from collecting information about the ethnic origins of individuals...
The proportion of the US population pursuing higher and further education is falling behind other industrialised countries, according to the Education Commission of the States. The non-partisan body...
Student complaints have prompted a Macedonian university to pulp a new politics textbook written by three of its professors because it described Nato and the US as the "world's leading terrorists"....
Plans to privatise Hungary's universities and higher education colleges have raised fears of job losses and a narrowing of the range of subjects on offer. The country's Trade Union of Higher...
After cosmonauts and astronauts come yuhangyuan . China launched its bid to become the third country to send a man into space on Wednesday. The Shenzhou 5 spacecraft carried a 38-year-old fighter...
Proposals to remove charity income from funding formulas bode ill for vital research, says Mark Walport This time last year charities were feeling rather upbeat about the future funding of university...
Entry decisions based on points are a minefield and will not work in an admissions system run on a shoestring A few years ago, at an Australian sandstone (read Russell Group) university, I was...
Friday All keyed up for tomorrow's start of the Mind Sports Olympiad - an annual games festival in which all the contests are thinking games and competitions using other mental skills. Anyone may...
Hats off to Bob Stone. The professor of interactive multimedia systems at the University of Birmingham has received the unusual distinction of being made an honorary Cossack for his services to...
A novel application has emerged from the work of Yohsuke Kamide, from Nagoya University in Japan, who has developed a system that tracks variations in the Earth's magnetic field caused by subatomic...
TV chef Clarissa Dickson Wright, the student-elected rector of Aberdeen University, has an unconventional solution to student debt. The star of Two Fat Ladies - who is filing for bankruptcy - is...
Drinks companies are counting their takings after hundreds of freshers' week events up and down the country. Last week, Inventive Leisure, the company behind the Revolution vodka-bar chain, announced...