Too many PhDs spoil economic broth in US
Universities are producing about 25 per cent more PhDs in science and engineering than the United States economy needs, according to a study by the Rand Corporation and the Institute for Higher...
Universities are producing about 25 per cent more PhDs in science and engineering than the United States economy needs, according to a study by the Rand Corporation and the Institute for Higher...
For the first time in Australia, and possibly the world, students seeking a university place in Victoria will apply to the state Tertiary Admissions Centre by punching in numbers on a telephone,...
The Australian Labor government's efforts to provide greater access to university for socially and economically disadvantaged students appear to have failed. Since taking office in 1983, the...
Despite being described by Spain's national assessment body as "satisfactory", some academics believe further reforms are needed in the country's university entrance examinations. Some changes were...
David Petrie is celebrating a European Parliament victory after battling for more than a decade for pay and conditions parity between Italian academics and foreign language teachers in Italy. He has...
Germany's plans to give nurses the chance to train to become doctors has led to a trade of insults between politicians and doctors. Education minister Jurgen Ruttgers has called for a change in...
Danish research should in future concentrate on the environment, health, information technology, the social sciences, the arts and other areas that will ensure sustainable development based on...
Two research councils have joined forces to launch a Pounds 7.5 million research programme on waste and pollution management. The initiative by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...
The unique relationship between music and the city is to be explored in a study of New Orleans and Liverpool, officially twinned in 1988, by the Institute of Popular Music at Liverpool University....
The margarine and soap industries could benefit from British research into improving techniques for the harvesting of oil palm fruits in Malaysia and South East Asia. Researchers at the Open...
Spanish researchers have devised a method of boosting almond harvests by depriving the trees of water during the dry summer. This discovery, which comes as Spanish agriculture is wilting under the...
The remains of Scotland's ancient floating houses, built on the lochs and inhabited from the Bronze Age to the 17th century, are for the first time being studied under water, with techniques used...
The Lyceum is a posh restaurant in the heart of Liverpool. Under a classically domed ceiling, thick-walleted patrons sit at candle-lit tables, sip coffee on gentleman's club-style leather sofas, and...
If the likes of IBM and the FBI can take humour seriously, so presumably can universities. Lancaster University is hoping to house the first British comedy archive and Leeds Metropolitan University...
The retiring director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund was 'amazed and astonished' by the recent fate of the OST. He explains why to Kam Patel. Sir Walter Bodmer, the leading geneticist and...