Malta University's monopoly as sole provider of higher education on the Mediterranean island republic will end next year when the government sets up a national technical college. Education minister...
Australian vice-chancellors are taking action to redress the severe gender imbalance among senior academics. Women form the majority of tutors and junior lecturers but represent barely one in four of...
After nearly 30 years of operation a law requiring equal opportunity in sports for women in the United States has led to a rise in the number of women athletes, according to a government study. But...
The University of Nottingham has become a key player in the global challenge to define the next generation web. The university has just signed a master agreement with Adobe Systems, the fourth...
Unions fear for members' positions following LJMU management shuffle Funding council officials have visited Liverpool John Moores University as the institution faces growing unrest over a looming...
Once upon a time universities fed, sheltered, taught and examined students and awarded them a degree or other credential before they left. No longer. Now there are universities which provide only one...
West Cheshire College has won the Pounds 5,000 British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) post-16 curriculum award for website excellence. The site was chosen from hundreds of...
Two young researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have won this year's Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software for their FFTW (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West) software....
Censorship, access restrictions and high prices are stunting the growth of the internet in the Middle East and North Africa. But its value as an education and information tool will ensure its...
Students are paying customers now and, as predicted, they are becoming more exacting. In this they are being egged on by the National Union of Students and, more indirectly, by the government and the...
In that elusive ideal world, a multicultural, bilingual University of Pristina would be a highly desirable engine for rebuilding Kosovo's shattered society. But inflexible pursuit of this aim by the...
If the United Kingdom is to attract larger numbers of overseas students, it needs to put its money where its mouth is, argues Clive Saville It took the prime minister's encounter with the mayor of...
Why is it that white academics studying black culture have such a hard time, asks Alan Rice Usually when you land a book contract what you feel is euphoria. That is certainly what I felt when my book...
Thames Valley may have had problems with its management, but Geoffrey Alderman is unconvinced by attacks on its academic record In the summer of 1997 the Quality Assurance Agency undertook a special...
Derby University has been admitting students to degree courses in Israel without agreed minimum entry qualifications and has withheld details of its operations from the Israeli regulating authority,...