New Labour's student support system is under fire. It is already being overhauled in Scotland and Northern Ireland and there is intense pressure to reform it in the rest of the UK. Claire Sanders,...
Should the National Union of Students have fought harder to keep the grant? Can it do anything to reverse the state of student support? Many student leaders believe the NUS took a wrong turn in the...
The University of Leeds has appointed: Mojtabi Ghadiri , former professor of particle technology at the University of Surrey, to a chair in chemical engineering; Philip Kocienski , former head of...
John Wood takes over as chief executive of the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils at one of the most turbulent times in its 35-year history. The government's decision last...
Science has gained some unlikely champions in an attempt to boost its popularity with teenagers. Pop star Billie Piper, footballer Dennis Wise, comedian Richard Blackwood and Radio One DJs, the Dreem...
At this week's launch of Hero, the new higher education web service, its chairman Tim O'Shea demonstrated the skills that made him a professor of information and communication technologies....
Philip Schlesinger, director of Stirling University's media research institute, has been giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament's standards committee on the need for a register of lobbyists,...
Nottingham University astronomer Michael Merrifield got planners hot under the collar this week when he showed that a "sky mirror" art installation in front of the city's Playhouse could catch the...
The University of Oxford will award honorary degrees to: Kofi Annan , secretary general of the United Nations; Tim Berners-Lee , director of the Worldwide Web Consortium and co-inventor of the web;...
Immigration has become a significant issue in Spain. Tighter laws brought in by the conservative central government have sparked protests, mainly from immigrants, whose chances of a resident's permit...
Universities are too diverse to be run by profit-seeking chief execs. They need more care, says Wang Gungwu. More universities in Asia of late have turned to headhunters in search of a new vice-...
Bright poor pupils from lycées in deprived areas are to have the chance to study at the highly selective Institute of Political Studies in Paris without sitting the competitive entrance exam. Richard...
A visit to the museum at TsAGI, Russia's institute of aerohydrodynamics in the formerly closed town of Zhukovsky, is a sobering experience for westerners. There they can contemplate models of planes...
The German government could be hauled before the European Court of Justice to defend restrictions preventing foreign exchange postgraduates from using their academic titles. The European Commission...
Austria's education ministry has stepped up attempts to remove the privileged status of university professors. The ministry says it is a scandal that professors are guaranteed jobs for life and are...