The research ethics watchdog has criticised the poor standard of students' research proposals from universities in the North Staffordshire area, almost six months after The THES reported that...
Cambridge University has sent a bill for £124,000 to campaigning history lecturer Gill Evans, after she failed to persuade the High Court to undertake a judicial review of the ancient university's...
Nineteen art and design colleges joined forces this week to form an association to promote themselves at home and abroad. The United Kingdom Arts and Design Institutions Association was launched on...
"Dark light" that has lurked unnoticed by science has been glimpsed by physicists for the first time, writes Steve Farrar. A computer simulation has revealed intricate shifting patterns of faint...
Diesel engines may contribute more to global warming than petrol-driven engines, a new study has suggested, writes Steve Farrar. The finding suggests that green motoring regulations drawn up to...
Robert Gordon University is heading a project to develop a national strategy for "e-theses". Susan Copeland, RGU's senior librarian and project manager, said: "We are interested in how this could...
Leading figures in science have given broad backing to proposals to create a transcontinental European Research Council. A majority of delegates at a meeting in Copenhagen this month agreed that such...
An estimated 900 lecturers at the University of Zimbabwe are on strike, demanding a 135 per cent pay rise and a review of their salaries as hyperinflation and a shrinking economy make savage inroads...
Foreign students enrolling in Australian universities enjoy lower living expenses and far lower fees than those in the UK or the US but about the same as students in Canada, according to research. A...
An aggrieved student at Monash University shot and killed two students and wounded five people on the university's main Melbourne campus on Monday. Hong Kong-born Huan Yun Xiang, who was to give his...
An increasing number of US students arrive at universities on stimulants, antidepressants and other psychoactive medications, according to campus mental-health providers. Use of these drugs among...
In the townships and deprived rural areas of South Africa, hope of economic regeneration lies with the multitude of small businesses that have sprung up in the years since the end of apartheid. But...
Denmark is to end the centuries-old tradition of a rector appointed by a democratically elected senate. Rectors and other university leaders will instead be appointed by boards of governors with an...
Spain has set up a national agency for accreditation and quality evaluation in a bid to make the country's higher education system more competitive and to bring it a step closer to conformity with...
Russian students who go overseas for work or study could lose their grants for that time under a regulation adopted by many universities. Rules governing the payment of stipendia - designed for those...