Greece is proposing to radically reform access to higher education f...

A conference of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Eu...

Sweden is for the first time to make international students pay for ...

Economics textbooks extol the virtues of competition. However the ma...

International aid agencies have failed to learn the lessons of the 2004 tsunami and may be repeating their mistakes in Haiti, and even in Pakistan as that country recovers from the disastrous flood...

The latest research from a global effort to document all known ocean life has been made public. The Census of Marine Life project has published an inventory of species distribution and diversity in...

University of Sydney scientists have discovered the first new chloro...

When researchers at the University of Salamanca decided to consider ...

Hong Kong is offering cheap land and other incentives to attract foreign colleges and universities to its shores and turn the Chinese territory into a global centre for higher education, writes Mar...

Paying for good school examination results for entrance into university, and to pass university courses, is a multi-million dollar industry in Russia, according to the Indem think tank in Moscow, r...

Universities in Wales have been urged to "clamp down" on their high earners as spending cuts loom, reports Gareth Evans for the Western Mail. Assembly members have deman...

Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, has said his government wants to expand access to higher education as it enters the second and final year of its plan to prepare Palestinians for indep...

Look no further than Britain's universities for business success stories at a time when the wider commercial world is reeling from recession, writes Richard Wachman for The Obs...

An Ethiopian government agency has scrapped all distance education programmes provided by both private and public institutions in the country, and private colleges are no longer to offer training i...

A national effort to increase the number of students from families with no tradition of going to college, or students with a disability, participating in higher education has produced a big jump in...

The Indian Institutes of Technology have asked the government to allow them to hire foreign nationals as permanent faculty, in a radical proposal that if accepted could expose students to globally-...

A long-awaited pact between China and India is on the verge of being signed, which will see the two countries treat each other's degrees as equivalent, reports the Hindustan Ti...

Even as labour shortages plague manufacturing industries, more than one-quarter of this year's 6.3 million Chinese college graduates are unemployed, according to the Education Ministry, reports Dex...

A Perth lecturer found to have pressured failing Chinese students for s ex is unlikely to be the only academic to exploit the vulnerability of students caught up in Australia's visas-for-degrees tr...

First-year students need £3,500 (US$5,400) of "essential" kit including a laptop and smartphone before embarking on their university career, reports Fiona Macleod for The Scots...