Leeds Met holds its fee
Leeds Metropolitan University is to hold undergraduate tuition fees at Pounds 2,000 for full-time home students in 2007, its governors decided this week. The decision to continue with the lower...
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4,000 places go to East
Anglia Ruskin University has been given a £20 million grant to increase the East of England's higher education provision by up to 4,000 places. Two new higher education centres will be opened, one in...
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Met Police hunt grads
Scotland Yard - London's biggest employer - has launched a recruitment drive at six of the capital's universities. Graduates recruited to the Metropolitan Police will be fast-tracked. London...
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Library upgrade
De Montfort University is investing £1.7 million to transform its main Kimberlin Library into a 24-hour "state-of-the-art learning zone". It has made provision for wireless internet access, and it...
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You'll go far if you can show some emotion
Intelligence alone is not enough for a successful career. Research shows that equipping staff with good interpersonal skills can help them cope with the stresses of work. Anthea Lipsett reports....
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Glittering evening for gold standard
The great and the good turned up at The Times Higher Awards to hear this year's verdict. Alan Thomson joined them in a toast to excellence The winners had the X-factor and the guests enjoyed the wow-...
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Baghdad
Unesco Director-General Koichiro Matsuura has appealed for the release of dozens of people kidnapped from Iraq's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. But a week after the incident,...
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Barcelona
A Graduate School of Economics is to open in the Catalan capital in September 2007. Postgraduate courses in economics and social sciences will be taught in English.
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Gomel, Belarus
Seventeen lecturers at the State Transport University have been convicted of taking bribes from people wanting to gain university places. Sentences range from six and a half years of prison camp to...
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Lagos
Christ International School, a Nigerian sixth-form college, announced last week that it will be preparing students for entry to UK universities under an agreement with about 21 British institutions....
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Ramallah
Muhammed Shabir, former head of Gaza's Islamic University, is to be Palestine's new Prime Minister, as Hamas and Fatah neared agreement on a national unity Government acceptable to the West.
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Rotterdam
A female theatre student has been arrested for public exposure after parading naked on the streets and filming the reactions of passers-by as part of a college project. Marjolijn Zwakman was...
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Canada shifts data from US
Canadians undertaking security-sensitive research fear they could fall foul of the Patriot Act, says Philip Fine. Canadian universities that use a US service for storing academic research files have...
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Sector split on Chávez policies
University autonomy, which was historically a unifying force for students and faculty in Venezuela, is dividing the country. Supporters of President Hugo Chávez, who is seeking re-election next week...
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States told to shoulder bigger share of university funding
The ߣߣÊÓƵn Government has rejected calls to increase spending on higher education and has instead demanded that the eight states and territories administered by Labor governments contribute more...