Bachelor of tarts sex ring denied
Claims on a South African television programme that University of the Free State students have been involved in a popular and exclusive sex club in conservative Bloemfontein have been angrily denied...
Claims on a South African television programme that University of the Free State students have been involved in a popular and exclusive sex club in conservative Bloemfontein have been angrily denied...
The education ministry's inspectorate has hailed a cure for what it describes in its annual report as "the well-known French syndrome of examinitis". France's universities tend to have the most...
German politicians and academics have launched a joint campaign for universities to set their own student selection procedures. It would recreate an elite higher education system by making...
British and American astronomers have discovered a new kind of galaxy, a member of the group of "peculiar" galaxies, using the Hubble Space Telescope. These galaxies, over three billion light years...
Engineers at Warwick University have taken a big step towards helping car manufacturers cut car weight drastically through greater structural use of lightweight composite materials. Working in...
Scientists in Interdisciplinary Research Centres are concerned about possible closures as the Government and research councils begin to take a close look at the centres in the light of changes in...
Universities are being urged to hold an urgent review of contracts for part- time staff after a growing number of successful claims for unfair treatment. A conference for personnel officers and...
Students and staff from Exeter College have just returned from taking medical supplies to a remote community of Tibetan refugees, who live in an arid desert region near the border of Mustang. The...
(Photograph) - Sister act: Sister Helen Prejean, a long-time campaigner against the death penalty in the United States, received an honourary doctorate in law at Glasgow University this week. Her...
Geoffrey Copland will become the new rector of the University of Westminster on January 1 1996, when Terence Burlin, retires. Dr Copland, who joined the university in 1987 when it was the Polytechnic...
Sam Davy, a graphic design student at the University of Northumbria, was yesterday awarded top prize in this year's British Design & Art Direction (D&AD) competition for students, writes...
Chairs of eponymous committees - Flowers, Follett, Jarrett et al - are to be joined by Martin Harris, vice chancellor of Manchester University, following the setting up of a new inquiry into...
This week's prize for compression goes to Lord Roll, scheduled to speak on "Errors in British Economic Policy 1945-95" to the Institute for Contemporary British History conference at Queen Mary and...
The unrelenting global expansion of higher education continues to push the parameters of proper academic study ever wider. University of North London public affairs officer John Izbicki was delighted...
Back in fashion after some years disuse - the tradition of swimming the pond at Nuffield College, Oxford. Unconfirmed reports suggest that there were about half a dozen swimmers following last month'...