International

This week, the European Commission announced that it will spend EUR 6.4 billion on research and innovation in 2011. The aim is a better quality of life and a way out of the economic crisis

The University Post meets Thomas Pogge, a philosopher with a utopian yet pragmatic plan to make life-saving drugs against the »diseases of poverty« available to all, at the lowest possible price

US professor suspended and accused of advocating rape after lecture on Machiavelli is posted on YouTube

Seven out of ten international graduates want to stay and work in Denmark. But after a year, only three of them are still here

Knocking Germany off the top spot, France is now the European country that sends the most students on Erasmus exchange, and more of them now choose Scandinavia as host country

The University of Copenhagen’s research station in Greenland is to play host to five international students from other universities this summer. They won grants to study climate-related courses as part of the COP15 climate conference in 2009

Greek universities are making deep cuts in their staff, salaries, student welfare and brand

Britain's new Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition has slashed GBP 200 million from spending on higher education in the 2010-11 budget. And it may not be over yet

Economic crisis and slashed university budgets have led to less autonomy and more paperwork, say lobbyists

A Chinese student who was paid GBP 400 to take a university English exam for someone else has been jailed for six months