PRIVATE colleges in Cyprus are dismayed at an education ministry decision to refuse them degree-awarding powers despite positive academic reports. The colleges, established to meet demand during the...
THE MALAYSIAN education minister has said that fee rises of up to 400 per cent for postgraduate courses in several Malaysian universities are "reasonable and minimal" because the original fees were...
AUSTRALIAN universities have suffered a dramatic drop in applications this year, with academics and students claiming that increased tuition charges are the cause. Vice-chancellors called for an...
PALESTINIAN students demonstrating at the height of the Gulf crisis were exhibiting anti-Israeli or anti-West sentiments rather than simply pro-Iraq sympathies, according to observers. While hundreds...
THREE of the United States top universities have made it easier for relatively well-off students and their families to afford rocketing tuition fees. Princeton University was first to change the...
ALMOST three-quarters of Canadian universities and colleges are regularly handing out food to students, most of whom are finding their loans or part-time jobs not stretching far enough. According to...
Romanian president Emil Constantinescu has promised that mother-tongue higher education will be available to all young ethnic Hungarians in Romania, beginning with the next academic year - providing...
Students from the "Serbianised" University of Pristina have established their own "independent union", the agenda of which includes dialogue with their ethnic-Albanian opposite numbers from the "...
A professor at a leading Madrid university is to be suspended from all teaching duties for six months after an investigation found he had been using "racial, sexual, social and ideological...
France is not making the most of its research findings, according to statistics released by the Observatory of Science and Technology. In its biennial report the OST claims that France's share of...
Siberian law students dissatisfied with the low level of their maintenance grants are taking their college to court. The case against the Irkutsk State Academy of Economics will be heard later this...
What is it about the Millennium Dome that makes hearts sink, instead of rising as Peter Mandelson would wish? It has its humorous aspects, like the fact that a part of the structure for spiritual...
It should be easy to find out about science. After all, open publication of results is an article of faith for most researchers. But in practice it is almost impossible. There is so much published...
We have superb universities and colleges that help maintain our position as a world leader in technology, finance, design, manufacturing and creative industries." The government's consultative...
As the Higher Education Funding Council for England starts considering responses to its questions on the future of research assessment, John Pratt says damage limitation is the best that can be hoped...