The new authority will take over qualifications tasks currently performed by the Commission for University Education, or CUE.

RMIT - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - has worked with international companies Siemens and Honeywell for two years to identify opportunities for energy and water savings in 90 buildings across its city and suburban campuses.

The initiative aimed at tackling Arab higher education challenges, especially in management and organisation, was tabled by the Jordan-based Middle East University at the General Conference of the Association of Arab Universities held in Amman, Jordan, last week.

The SKA, which will cost more than US$900 million to build in its first phase, will comprise thousands of large antennae spread across Africa and Oceania, with the head office of the SKA Organisation at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK.

There is concern that without an amicable solution to the crisis, frustrated students with uncertain futures may embark on protests that end in confrontations with the security forces, which acted with violence against protesting workers in December last year.

The universities of Stellenbosch in South Africa, Guelph in Canada, Malmo in Sweden and Flinders in Australia kicked off the first of four conferences on transforming education through technological innovation on 25-26 March at the Wallenberg Research Centre in Stellenbosch, South Africa

The international body for assessing the science related to climate change released a contribution to its Fifth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2014: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in Yokohama last Monday

Hamon (47) joins the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who has replaced Jean-Marc Ayrault following poor results for the Socialist Party of President Francois Hollande in municipal elections at the end of March

Called "The Wharton-QS Stars Awards 2014 - Reimagine Education", the contest will provide all universities and enterprises around the world with opportunities to showcase innovation in e-learning, blended and classroom-based learning.

The commission called for national quotas for higher education programmes, and for access to masters-level study to be limited to one-third of the annual graduate cohort

From 1 April, the Inland Revenue Department gained the power to seek arrest warrants for overseas-based borrowers with significant arrears

Vice-chancellors looked on the bright side of the budget delivered on Thursday, hailing the increases it included for research funding.

According to the University of Cape Town, Karabus devoted his career to the care of children with cancer, earning the respect of colleagues, students, patients and international peers.

The one-year graduate course started in 2007 with 39 students, with ambitions to enrol up to 80 students a year. However, according to National University of Singapore (NUS) figures it averaged only around 40 students a year

But the U-Multirank team of Frans van Vught and Frank Ziegele quickly issued a statement seeking to refute the UK HE International Unit’s analysis.