Government loans to students at Malaysia's 200-plus private colleges have more than doubled over the past year. Last year, 16,103 students from private higher education institutions received loans,...
Campaigners are fighting for the release of Iranian student Ahmad Batebi who was jailed for 15 years after his photograph appeared on the front of The Economist. Despite the National Union of...
The University of Malta hopes to enhance its role as a leading centre for European Union studies by introducing a research degree in the subject. Although Malta has yet to join the EU, the university...
Europa University Viadrina, which celebrated its tenth anniversary last month, is striving to build a 5,000-strong student-body. Viadrina, on the German-Polish border, opened in 1991 with 200...
Australian university students are planning to protest at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Brisbane on October 5 and at the Commonwealth Business Forum to be held in Melbourne...
A Popstars -style talent show is to give ambitious Midlands technology companies the chance to compete for funding. The competition is being run by Connect Midlands, a spin-off from Warwick Ventures...
The perception that online learning is really e-commerce is holding back public-sector development of e-education, a new Commonwealth of Learning report has said. "Virtual education" is expected to...
Goldsmiths wins £1.3m for cognition centre Goldsmiths College, University of London, has been awarded £1.3 million by the Higher Education Funding Council for England's Science Research Investment...
Former physics researcher and mathematics teacher Hania Allen is set to spearhead an information technology revolution at St Andrews University. Dr Allen, the recently appointed vice-principal for...
Lecturing in Jamaica has its drawbacks but has its sunny side too, writes Tony Ward in the fourth of our series from the grass roots. Rising student numbers, not enough time to do research, and...
Bar Council warning over law degrees The Bar Council has warned that it may no longer recognise university law degrees. Nigel Bastin, head of education for the Bar Council, said the council formally...
Global warming irreversible, say Russians Russian scientists have warned that global warming is irreversible and that schemes to tackle it might reduce its worst effects only slightly. Speakers at a...
The Financial Times The journal Nature will urge its authors to disclose any financial interests related to their studies in response to growing concerns over increasing links between...
University of Surrey Appointments as follows: Head of department B. Weiss (electronics, computing and mathematics); J. Tostevin (physics). Readership M. Olssen , former senior lecturer at the...
Guardian The resignation of John Randall, chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency, has been greeted with glee by universities Independent Aaron Hertzmann, of New York University, has...