Around a third of Pegida members are “far-right nationalist xenophobes”, a study from the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden published on Tuesday found.
New research published by Spiegel on Friday shows that there are thousands of university placesa unoccupied across the country, while certain hot spots cope with too much demand.
A Polish university said Monday it will restore doctorate degrees to 262 people, most of them Jewish, decades after Nazi Germany annulled them in the run-up to World War II.
German universities have shot up the world's leading higher education rankings, with Germany now having more institutions among the world's best than any other country after the US and UK.
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is pressing ahead with its German-Russian Institute of Advanced Technologies (GRIAT) against a backdrop of international tensions over Ukraine.
UPDATE: One of Germany’s top universities wants to ditch German and switch almost all of its master’s programmes to English in the next six years, prompting fears that the academic standing of the German language is under serious threat.
A record number of foreign students are currently enrolled in German universities, according to figures released on Tuesday. Half of them stay in the country after graduating, far more than previously thought.
Students at German universities have shown themselves to be a risk-free lot in a survey by Ernst & Young. The civil service is their most popular choice of future profession, while job security is valued above all else.
A family had a lucky escape when they came home to find a rocket had shot through the roof of their house after a student experiment went horribly wrong.
More and more German students are opting to study at private colleges and universities rather than state ones. Attendance rose by ten percent over the past year and has increased six-fold since 2001, despite some costing around €10,000 a semester.
The global reputation of German universities is increasing, with the country now having the third highest number of institutions in the Times Higher Education rankings.
Five German universities have made it into the top 20 world rankings by subject area, listings released on Wednesday revealed. Physics and languages emerged on top.
One of Germany's top commerce experts warned on Monday that there were so many young people at university, and so few in traineeships, that the country's economy would suffer.
Erasmus, the world's biggest student exchange, is to expand after 25 years of funding European students to go abroad. But with the EU budget being slashed, does the grant scheme deserve a 50 percent boost to its budget?
For many homeless people going to university was just a dream. But now Berlin's Homeless University is offering many of those on the streets an education and a hope of getting themselves out of a dire situation.
A student union has warned that German university canteens are in desperate need of an upgrade, to cope with the massively increased demand caused by record numbers of new undergraduates.
A new study has condemned the immigration office in Bayreuth for its treatment of international students, some of whom have been turned off the Bavarian town by their negative experiences. Kate Ferguson reports.
Germany's oldest fraternity association could change its membership rules to include only ethnic Germans at their annual meeting this weekend, the country's media reported on Friday.
Bavarian politicians are planning a revamp of a tiny politics college founded as a "democracy school" in Munich by the Americans after World War II, hoping to turn it into an attractive partner for the city's universities.
German students sick of over-filled lecture halls and the scramble to find an affordable place to live in university towns should consider switching to the practical side of life - they are being targeted by trade organisations.
Being good-looking can be as useful as a university degree when it comes to wages and promotions, with a person's attractiveness directly affecting pay-packets and careers, according to a new study.
