Cambridge University is back in the High Court next week, as campaigning history lecturer Gill Evans seeks a judicial review of the university's procedures for promoting academic staff. Dr Evans...
The University of Toronto has settled a lawsuit with a British drugs researcher who alleged that an employment offer was revoked because he asserted a link between antidepressants and suicide....
Bristol University has defended one of its professors against tabloid accusations of taking organs from deceased babies without their families' consent. The university said the stories could damage...
The Court of Appeal has thrown out a landmark case on the rights of disabled people to study and practise medicine. Paraplegic Heidi Cox had won the right to sue the General Medical Council for...
The decision to fund the UK Biobank - the world's largest study of the interaction of genes, environment and health - has been dismissed as premature by a research pressure group. The Wellcome Trust...
Japan's Osaka University is to form an information exchange alliance with 16 Japanese companies, including Sony and Matsu****a, for future joint developments in bio-IT.
Tsinghua University has recruited 28 foreign academics as visiting professors from institutions that include Harvard University.
Nearly half of US university students expect to receive no job offers while 20 per cent anticipate only one, according to a survey by job-search company Monster.com.
The government worships the "twin towers of science and technology" and is neglecting the creative arts in the economy of the future, according to a former Whitehall education official. Michael...
The Liberal Democrats may base part of their revised national higher education policy on the Scottish student funding solution. Baroness Sharp, the party's education spokeswoman in the House of Lords...
Matti Alderson could become an unlikely hero for lecturers who fear that red tape is damaging their ability to teach and research. As chairwoman of the Cabinet Office task force looking at the...
Huddersfield University has launched what is claimed to be the world's first "creative imaging" masters course. The programme, which is being run in conjunction with the brand communications firm...
Chancellor Gordon Brown pledged that investment in science would be a priority of the public spending review when he opened the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) based at Edinburgh University. Mr...
Business and further and higher education must put their weight behind the development of new sector skills councils to bring training in Britain up to European standards, a conference heard last...
An estimated 12,000 Chilean university students have demonstrated outside the education ministry and in university cities to protest at cuts in student grants and university funding. Fifteen students...