In an effort to reverse Australia's brain drain, the federal government is to provide loans to foreign professionals intending to work in Australia to pay for university bridging courses to meet...
A Kenyan university has engaged herbalists to offer health services and participate in research with its scientists and campus doctors. Kenyatta University authorities said the herbalists had proved...
Peace has returned to Sri Lanka following the ceasefire agreement between government forces and separatist Tamil Tigers. It heralds a new era for the higher education sector after a decade of civil...
The World Bank is refining its approach to higher education elements of its strategy for capacity building and poverty reduction in developing countries. Academics from developing countries have been...
The European Union's Joint Research Centre wants to include more academics and scientists from countries seeking EU membership, expanding the European Research Area eastwards and southwards. Its...
Canada's police complaints commission has urged the Mounties to apologise to student protesters for "inappropriate actions" at a Vancouver meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation...
Italy's best-known independent social, economic and political research institute, Eurispes, is embroiled in accusations that it embezzled more than L4 million (£2.5 million) by running bogus training...
More than 10,000 trainee secondary teachers will have to retake their qualifying examination because of a rail breakdown near Paris. Holdups on a suburban railway line delayed many of the 1,100...
Thursday Up at 5am for the drive to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Irena, my wife, and Mark Gasson, lead researcher, are with me. I do not like operations, yet here I am having one that I do not...
University of Zimbabwe law lecturer Lovemore Madhuku's Cambridge doctorate was on the legal aspects of bank financing for companies in Zimbabwe. But, in Zimbabwe's recent turmoil, his expertise as a...
Perhaps booksellers should be advised to read some of the titles they sell. Amazon is currently offering the textbook Decision Analysis for Management Judgment - described as showing "how difficult...
Trials of cheap Aids vaccine under way Scientists starting a new phase of trials on a revolutionary Aids vaccine have started injecting 26 British volunteers with the treatment. The Medical Research...
The University of North London and London Guildhall University are forking out thousands of pounds on a new logo. Fishburn Hedges, which has been appointed to "create an identity for the soon-to-be-...
The Pembroke College "cash for places" scandal has had an interesting effect on Oxford West MP Evan Harris. John Platt, the former college chaplain and a good friend of Dr Harris, resigned last week...
Is there anyone there? Far from being the business-minded institutions that universities like to be portrayed as, it transpires that many cannot even manage to answer the phone during normal working...