Lebanon counts war's cost
Lebanese universities have escaped the student exodus they had feared would result after the war between Israel and Hezbollah, but the conflict cost lives, financial losses and a reduction in the...
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Russia to pilot loans scheme
The Russian Government has approved a pilot scheme to provide training credits that could pave the way for a system of privately funded, state-backed student loans, writes Nick Holdsworth, in Moscow...
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White students claim race bias
White students in Pretoria painted themselves black and wrote to Thabo Mbeki, the President of South Africa, asking to be reclassified as "African" in a protest against what they see as...
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Global push is driven by rivalry, study says
Desire to gild reputations rather than to foster co-operation motivates internationalisation, finds Michael Delaney International competitiveness is a higher priority for universities worldwide than...
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Research plan hitch
ߣߣÊÓƵ's attempts to devise a research quality framework (RQF) for allocating nearly A$600 million (£242 million) a year in grants have run into further opposition. The Group of Eight research-...
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Turkey takes German ally
Turkey and Germany are to establish a joint university in Istanbul - the first joint enterprise with a foreign country to open in Turkey. On a visit to Istanbul last week, Angela Merkel, the German...
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UCU members will not spy on Islamic students
Staff are being asked to alert the police to 'extremists' but Paul Mackney refuses to participate in the politics of paranoia Sometimes you wake up to the Today programme and have to pinch yourself...
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Alison Wolf
When we describe someone as "both judge and jury", we do not mean it as a compliment. We know that monopolists are likely to be inefficient and to overcharge. Yet government departments and agencies...
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Chris McManus: Wittgenstein would have whistled along
MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT Palace Theatre, London Had he lived two decades longer, an 80-year-old Wittgenstein could have watched the inspired lunacies of the first two series of Monty Python. And then...
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Chronicle of a vote foretold?
Eagle-eyed delegates at last week's University and College Union conference on the future of research assessment will have noticed that elections for the union's general secretary are already a...
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Dash for cash - or die
Meanwhile, one of the most insightful ideas yet to emerge from the increasingly protracted debate over how to assess research was unveiled at the UCU conference. One academic who was questioned for...
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Comic lends extra to Welsh fight
Welsh students have found an unlikely champion in their campaign to stop the Welsh Assembly Government from introducing top-up fees next year. The comedian Ricky Gervais has given his permission for...
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Graduates will not be under par
A Chinese university is demanding that its law and business students take golf lessons in order to prepare them for a commercial world in which business deals are made on the links. The compulsory...
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A little bit of trust can go a long way
Police efforts to engage with local Muslim communities should not be dismissed as Islamophobic spying, argues Special Branch officer Brian Young The strategic aim of the Special Branch Community...
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West does not hold all the bargaining chips
What threat do North Korea and Iran pose if they develop full nuclear capability and can the West defuse the tensions? The immediate security threat from North Korea does not come from the bomb but...