Police have criticised Cape Town University for not digging "deeper" into the background of academic Charles Pape who faces extradition to the US on terrorist charges, writes Karen MacGregor. Dr Pape...
Canadian university researcher Nancy Olivieri agreed last week to settle all disputes with a drugs company, university and teaching hospital with which she had been battling for six years. James L....
Five universities have founded the Italian Institute of Human Sciences, to be directed by superstar semiologist Umberto Eco. The institute will be housed in the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. It will...
First-years are sleeping more soundly at one of France's elite engineering schools as two months of violent and humiliating initiation rites drew to an end last Sunday, writes Jane Marshall. The...
Turkish universities are looking for signs of satanic cults spreading among students. The religious affairs directorate is distributing a manual, written by Ahmet Guc, professor of theology at Uludag...
France's elite school for training top civil servants, senior diplomats and industrial leaders has survived an attempt by rightwing MPs to close it, only to face reform next spring. The Ecole...
The government's new discussion paper on higher education is cautious about the connection between research and economic success. The links are often tenuous, but nobody can doubt the academic roots...
Helping tertiary education in developing countries can benefit everyone, say Jamil Salmi and Jozef Ritzen In a global economy that becomes faster and more powerful every year, education can transform...
There is a temptation to mock an invitation to respond to 77 often fundamental questions about higher education only a week ahead of the date when the government was to have published its strategy....
A fascination with puzzles developed into an intellectual quest that led from the breathtaking revelations of spectroscopy into organic chemistry and quantum mechanics I sometimes wonder how I ended...
Wednesday Arrive at World Toilet Summit in Seoul, South Korea, after airport delays caused by typhoon winds. Greet Koo Ue, director of the Japan Toilet Association, who pioneered the Asian "restroom...
The British Medical Journal has launched an appeal to ban a word for Christmas. It states: "Trying to ban a word is not only hopeless but also an insult. Worse still, it has totalitarian overtones....
The University of Buckingham, Britain's only private university, is trying to raise its proportion of home students. Some think the reason that only 25 per cent of the student body is British is that...
Have the Boys from Brazil moved north to Cuba? According to the programme for next week's biotechnology conference in Havana, one name will dominate the session on cloning. This Cuban features on a...
The THES 's league table of vice-chancellors' salaries has been embroiled in a row over Sir George Bain's pay. A Belfast newspaper reported allegations by the Fire Brigades Union that Sir George,...