Until this autumn, the Côte d'Ivoire had a reputation for political stability. That reputation evaporated in the violence that marred last month's presidential elections and left an estimated 200...
Angolan students at university campuses in Luanda and Lubango are avoiding conscription in the war against Unita by registering as United Nations student refugees with the aim of studying in other...
A total of 74 presidents of private US colleges were paid at least $300,000 in 1998-99, according to the annual survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education . It is the largest number since 1991-92,...
Cuban president Fidel Castro has been given a medal of honour by the rector of Panama University. Mr Castro, who had been attending a summit for Ibero-American heads of state, said his trip would...
An 89-year-old industrialist has established the largest US award for medical research, rivalling the Nobel prize, with a $50 million endowment. From next year, the $500,000 Albany Medical Center...
France's education ministry has promised to find accommodation for students during renovation of the Sorbonne, after governors threatened to cancel all courses in protest against unsafe and...
Russian president Vladimir Putin has doubled the size of presidential scholarships for promising students in an impromptu announcement made during a visit to Moscow's Bauman State Technical...
Three private universities in Austria are on the verge of receiving national accreditation in a move that signals the end of the state monopoly on education. The government hopes the move will...
The first international conference for heads of teacher-training institutions has laid the foundations for setting up a worldwide teacher-training network. The three-day Paris conference, "Priorities...
The woman at the helm of Belgrade University faces the daunting task of re-establishing a historic institution that was starved of funding during the 13-year regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Acting...
One of Slovakia's newer political parties has announced a scheme to bring students more actively into the country's political life. Smer (Direction), led by populist Robert Fico, announced an essay-...
The bright lights of Beijing are just an hour's drive from the grinding poverty of the rural communities that still till the soil by hand. With 1.2 billion people, China is the world's most populous...
The New Zealand government is holding talks with the Australian and British governments to establish if their tax systems can be used to recover loan debts from former students living overseas. Steve...
The first study of the Commonwealth's flagship student mobility scheme for more than a decade shows overwhelming enthusiasm from former students. How the scheme will be shaped in future years will be...
The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee has warned that Australian higher education is in danger of "sliding into mediocrity" unless public funding is increased. It called on the federal...