Undergraduate applications to Oxford
Total undergraduate applications to Oxford are up 2.2 per cent on last year, according to figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Applications to Cambridge are down by 7.4 per...
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The heat is on, warn climate experts
The UK can expect more floods but lower winter fuel bills as a result of global warming, according to an EU-funded report from the University of East Anglia. The report, edited by Martin Parry,...
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Caracas
University teaching and administrative staff are this week due to join a national teachers' strike in protest against salary scales and employment conditions recently approved by the national...
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Latest international news
Kazak students defy president At least 120 Kazak students at religious colleges in Islamic countries are defying orders from president Nursultan Nazarbayev to return home. The order, triggered by...
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Eyewitness
Swaziland's main underground opposition party has warned that this will be a month of mass action against the government of King Mswati III. Renewed unrest over lack of democracy stems from anger at...
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Greece in for a shake-up
As Greece grapples with reform of secondary schools, higher education has become a constitutional issue, writes Katharine Sarikakis The public debate in Greece about reforms in secondary schools and...
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Paris
More than 40 ministers of higher education from Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean are meeting today in Paris to adopt a declaration opening the way for university and scientific cooperation...
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Strasbourg
The European Parliament has passed a resolution calling on Italy and the European Commission to end long-running job discrimination against foreign-language lecturers working in Italian universities...
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Bratislava
The Romanies of Slovakia have begun a campaign for a World Romany University to be established in Kosice in eastern Slovakia. The International Romany Union is seeking financial aid packages from the...
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Rio de Janeiro
A study of a national cross-section of more than 22,000 Brazilian medical graduates carried out by the national inter-institutional commission for the evaluation of medical teaching revealed that the...
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Durban
A disciplinary inquiry into accusations of insubordination and incompetence against Caroline White, a professor of social anthropology at the University of Natal, Durban, is to reconvene on Monday...
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Italians embrace credits system
Italian universities are pioneering the so-called European system of degree courses, consisting of a three-year degree followed by a two-year specialisation degree, as laid down in the 1998 Sorbonne...
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Serbia returns to the fold
The post-Milosevic administration at the University of Belgrade has called for the reinstatement of all teaching staff who lost their jobs under the 1998 university law introduced to eliminate or...
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Violence forces Basque academic to flee
A second academic under pressure from violent Basque nationalists linked to Eta has left his job in Spain. Jose Mar!a Portillo, lecturer in contemporary history at the University of the Basque...
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Reding calls for funding
Transatlantic agreements that have led to 3,000 European students benefiting from exchange programmes with universities and colleges in the United States and Canada are underfunded, the European...