Two companies with links to the University of Surrey have raised funds to develop products that will help release high-value contaminated land for redevelopment. Cybersense Biosystems, set up in 2001...
Should Oxford cut first degrees to compete internationally? Claire Sanders reports Oxford University's undergraduates have included five kings, 25 British prime ministers - and three saints. To cut...
Lord Robin Butler is a college man who has seen the writing on the wall for the current Oxford system. He studied at University College, Oxford, in the 1960s, went on to become head of the civil...
Students at Oxford University are so overworked that the quality of their learning may be damaged, according to a consultation document from Oxford's key educational policy and standards committee,...
KNIGHTS BACHELOR Martyn Arbib, president of Perpetual plc, for services to charities, especially education. John Baker, QC, Downing professor of the laws of England, University of Cambridge, for...
It may soon be possible to predict whether your partner is likely to cheat on you, according to research psychologists at Sheffield Hallam and Leicester universities. Generating a "measure of...
Australia's only private university to be established by a public institution has received approval to operate for another five years, under strict conditions. Melbourne University Private,...
Rome's Tor Vergata University has launched an international, multidisciplinary programme to produce a definitive three-dimensional map of Hadrian's villa. A dozen, mainly Italian, universities and...
Financier George Soros is to scale down his charitable activities in Russia to concentrate on a country he considers to be in greater need of support for an open society: the US. Mr Soros, whose Open...
Israel's supreme court is to rule on an education ministry decision to invalidate degrees awarded by the local branch of the University of Latvia. The effect of the decision is to cancel salary...
Thousands of German students face fines or fraud charges for supplying false information to obtain government grants. A nationwide investigation by the finance ministry has concluded that every fifth...
Progress on widening access to Spain's universities may be faltering after improving in the 1990s, according to the first study to look at access to higher education. Metropolitan Survey 2000...
US universities are to dominate efforts to rebuild Iraq's neglected and war-ravaged higher education sector, with a market-led outlook. The US Agency for International Development (USAid) this month...
The American Association of University Professors has condemned the University of South Florida for "serious professional injury" to sacked computer science Professor Sami Al-Arian, who faces...
Ireland has the highest proportion of mathematics, science and technology graduates in the European Union, according to the EU statistical agency Eurostat in Luxembourg. In 2001, Ireland had 23.2...