Clarification
Our article on the Demographic Review of the Social Sciences (January ) report on recruitment wrongly attributed authorship to the Economic and Social Research Council. The report was prepared by a...
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Got a space to think but no space for your car?
Paying for parking is more likely to drive academics crazy than debates over their claims for a larger pay packet. Olga Wojtas and Alan Thomson investigate the different policies of universities...
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High earners may pay more, those who share pay less
Paying for parking is more likely to drive academics crazy than debates over their claims for a larger pay packet. Olga Wojtas and Alan Thomson investigate the different policies of universities...
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Dublin
The Irish Government has announced a €200 million (£136 million) shake-up in medical education. The changes include increasing the number of first-year places for Irish and European Union students...
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Brussels
Some 25 national Erasmus agencies have warned that decisions on the European budget last December amount in effect to no increase for education, fail to support the existing student-exchange...
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Paris
President Jacques Chirac is to cancel legislation that places conditions on historians' research and requires school history courses to present French colonialism in North Africa in a positive light...
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£240m pot for hard-up
Stung by criticism over corruption and a failure to deliver basic services, South Africa's Government has announced a record R2.6 billion (£240 million) for bursaries and loans for poor students....
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Russia set to introduce student loans to help boost quality
Russia is considering introducing a student loans system to help fund its higher education sector. With student numbers approaching 6 million and with annual federal funding of £4 billion, which is...
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Aid in US favours wealthier freshers
Universities anxious to rise up America's all-important rankings are spending an increasing amount of financial aid on smart students from wealthy families while financial aid for poor students...
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Censor bans how-to article on date rape
New Zealand's censor has banned a student magazine after it carried a "how to" article about date rape, purportedly written from the rapist's point of view. Otago University's Critic Te Arohi has for...
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Fears for Norwegian as English papers rewarded
The Norwegian language is under pressure in Norway's universities as academics are encouraged to use English when publishing their research. The University of Oslo has become the first institution to...
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Indian exam racket
Mafia-style criminal gangs are selling leaked question papers to desperate Indian university students, writes Raghavendra Verma in New Delhi. Senior academics are warning that students are resorting...
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CNRS leadership to be reformed
The dual leadership system of France's National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS) will be changed to avoid potential conflict between the president and the director-general of the kind that led to a...
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Unionist deported
A Russian political scientist has been deported from Ukraine after being detained at an airport in Crimea on his way to address a seminar at Tavryda University. Kirill Frolov of the Institute of the...
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Islam's no joking matter - and that's the problem
Humility and integrity require Muslims to mock themselves every once in a while, argues Irshad Manji At the World Economic Forum in Davos last month, I observed something revealing. In a session...