Race row unsettles campus coffers
A bitter dispute over Asian immigration and government subsidies to aborigines has alarmed senior academics in Australia. They have warned that the tenor of a national debate about race could damage...
A bitter dispute over Asian immigration and government subsidies to aborigines has alarmed senior academics in Australia. They have warned that the tenor of a national debate about race could damage...
Out of Africa or Out of Asia? A bitter row is raging about the origin of our species. Ayala Ochert reports Of the many lessons that could be learned from the O. J. Simpson trial, there is one we can...
Australian universities and technical colleges will receive a much-needed financial boost following a decision by the department of defence to outsource more than Aus$45 million (Pounds 18 million)...
The Harvard University geneticist Richard Lewontin's book consists of review essays originally published in the New York Review of Books between 1981 and 1993, with epilogues to bring them up to date...
A university's reputation for scholarship is less important to overseas students than the cost of tuition and its range of courses, says research published last week, writes Phil Baty. Education...
Ulster University is hoping to capitalise on international sympathy for Northern Ireland with a bid to raise Pounds 70 million to help tackle social issues and promote economic regeneration. The...
Consultants called in to advise on the future of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, largest of the University of London's senate institutes, are set to recommend a merger with another...
A government scholarship scheme to help cash-strapped Southeast Asian students on courses in Britain has been left with Pounds 900,000 of unused money. The government and the British Council have...
Pat Caplan says the Association for Commonwealth Studies will not be a club but a way of fostering understanding in many fields Why choose 1998 to launch an Association for Commonwealth Studies and...
No vaccine or drugs exist for a virus disease found in more than 100 countries and placing some 2,000 million people at risk. This is the reality of dengue, which occurs in tropical and subtropical...
King's College London and Monash University in Melbourne have signed an agreement that will give the largest university in Australia its first base in Britain. It will also give King's access to...
Former governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten, 54, has been made chancellor of Newcastle University, where his eldest daughter Kate was an undergraduate. He hopes to promote the university abroad,...
Thirty years ago, it would have been difficult to travel around Western Europe speaking only English. This is not true today. In fact, the standard of English among the educated in some of these...
Orang-utans, our third closest relatives, are barely hanging on as a species. Researchers trying to study them are also under attack. Aisling Irwin reports As the rope bridge across the rainforest...