A lack of clear plans to replace East Africa's ageing professors, most of whom are due to retire within ten years, is becoming a major barrier to quality education. It is estimated that 60 per cent...
American university faculty enjoyed salary raises above inflation this year for the sixth time in the past seven years, but their pay continues to fall behind that of other highly educated...
Senior civil servants from all of Scandinavia's ministries of higher education are agreed that the time is not ripe for the introduction of university tuition fees in the region. Gathered in Iceland...
Italy's main student union has launched a national campaign against advertising by Italy's largest private tuition firm, which uses Alex Del Piero, star player of Juventus football club, and...
(Photograph) - Research students and scientists were on hand to explain the mysteries of the ocean and the creatures that inhabit it at an exhibition at Southampton University's Oceanography Centre....
Tim Greenhalgh on the BT Higher Education Awards, co-sponsored by THES. Two events on the same day last week at British Telecom's London headquarters underlined the breathless pace of cultural change...
France's biggest student social insurance society, tainted by fraud and corruption and the subject of official investigations for the past two years, has been relaunched with a new name and statutory...
Darijusz Ratajczak, a Polish history lecturer, has been dismissed from his post at the Opole University and banned from academic teaching for three years. A university disciplinary commission ruled...
It is becoming apparent that the government's decision to exclude higher education from plans to restructure post-16 education through the Learning and Skills bill is a serious shortcoming (page 4)....
Andrew Oswald's Soapbox article last week calling on the Universities Supperannuation Scheme to increase members' pensions has attracted a flurry of support (Letters, opposite). Staff at universities...
Was the world declaration on Education For All more than a vision? asks Angela Little on the eve of the declaration's review Next week in Dakar, Senegal, 900 educationists, donors, non-governmental...
Extra government funds will be channelled into three major science initiatives in sustainable land use, post-genomics and information technology if advice from the research councils is followed. The...
South African education minister Kader Asmal has launched an attack on "global universities" that see developing countries as no more than new markets. Delivering the address at a four-day conference...
Funding chiefs are to recognise the burden of accountability faced by institutions. A report commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England will suggest ways of rationalising...
Top-rated research departments could lose their 5* grade if they fail to provide adequate research training, funding chiefs have warned. Research funding would be explicitly linked to the quality of...