As the EUA conference gets under way in Bristol, Caroline Davis examines ressearch collaboration In March 2000, the Lisbon European Council agreed that it wanted Europe to become the most competitive...
Canada could change the way it funds the social sciences and humanities by grouping researchers into areas of social issues and not just by their academic disciplines. The Social Sciences and...
New techniques to preserve archaeological finds where they are discovered while allowing them to be visited and observed by the public are being developed by a European Union-funded research...
The academic integrity of UK research is at risk as the government tries to wean researchers off state support in favour of commercial income, the Royal Society said this week. Royal Society members...
The number of students in Canadian universities grew by 39 per cent between 1991 and 2001, two and a half times the rate of its adult population growth. The increase, partly explained by demands from...
Evidence emerged today that teaching-only academics suffer greater work-related stress than colleagues who do research. A poll by the Association of University Teachers shows that 40 per cent of...
Two London universities have announced a joint £10 million health and engineering initiative. The aim is to combine the resources of Queen Mary, University of London, and City University to develop...
An American teacher at a Siberian university who was deported after managers sacked him for criticising the way English was taught has won a court case ordering his reinstatement. Tomsk district...
The Vatican has mobilised Catholic university students in support of its demands that the new European Constitution include a reference to Europe's "Christian roots". Pope John Paul II spoke to a...
The largest reform of Turkish higher education since a 1980 military coup has been put on hold. The architect of the reform package, education minister Erkan Mumcu, has, in a surprise move, been...
Geographers from Dhaka University are giving 100 of Bangladesh's leading non-governmental organisations the high-tech tools they need to stop HIV and Aids spreading into the country from neighbouring...
The University for Peace in Costa Rica has overcome a culture of indifference to meet the twin challenge of expansion and global development set by UN secretary-general Kofi Annan. The university (...
Huang Minxiang, , from Fuzhou, who confessed to the bombings at Beijing and Qinghua universities on February 25 that injured nine people, has told police he carried out the attacks "to achieve fame".
Archaeologists from Rome's La Sapienza University have announced the discovery of what they believe are the world's oldest swords. The nine swords, several spearheads and other implements were found...
Thieving northwestern crows steal food more "politely" from their immediate kin than from birds that are less closely related to them, according to scientists in the US, writes Natasha Gilbert. The...