France is to go ahead with plans to build a third-generation synchrotron on its home ground. Research minister Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg this week announced that the Soleil project, abandoned by...
The installation of condom vending machines in four Chinese university campuses over the past few months has raised fears among parents and teachers that they will encourage sexual promiscuity, while...
More than 30 students and professors at the Universidad Mayor de San Andres who ended their hunger strike last week after 16 days said that they would resume strike action in six weeks unless the...
Rwandan troops occupying a province in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo shot and killed four students protesting against the arrest of lecturers who argued that Rwandan...
Term is starting and a new tutor group is about to walk through the door. How can I strike up a fruitful working relationship with my students and yet keep my distance? Martin Greenhow Senior tutor...
WHAT An early emphasis on work that develops writing and research skills greatly benefits PhD students, says Moira Peelo WHY Students and their PhD supervisors often waste the early months of their...
(Photograph) - Quad squad: Jim Craig, a theological student training to be an Anglican priest at Cranmer Hall, Durham, has swapped the quad for a quad bike while on placement at a north Yorkshire...
(Photograph) - Student Pierre Le-Clech examines equipment in Cranfield University's new pilot plant hall. Cranfield has its own sewage system for research. Photograph: Joel Chant.
Get ready for a heavy session at the Labour Party conference in Brighton next month. Centre-left think-tank the Institute for Public Policy Research has issued a handy list of useful phone numbers....
Universities and students are to get an extra Pounds 131 million on top of the Pounds 20 million announced earlier this year to help widen access for young people from poorer backgrounds. The money...
* The CVCP announced a new joint initiative linking universities, colleges and schools in a bid to raise young people's interest in and access to higher education. New Opportunities for All is a...
Warwick University's prestigious manufacturing group is facing up to 20 job losses, including a possible eight compulsory redundancies, following withdrawal of funding from Rover. The redundancies...
East 15 Acting School in Loughton, Essex, has merged with Essex University, following agreement from the Higher Education Funding Council for England to provide 130 undergraduate places. The...
Catholics and Protestants are joining forces to teach a degree in theology structured to suit all denominations at Queen's University, Belfast. Degree and certificate courses are planned to start...
Some 600 online centres in disadvantaged communities were this week announced by prime minister Tony Blair. The centres will allow people to access online courses when learndirect is launched this...