Loan rules may bar thousands from study
Tens of thousands of mature students could be forced to pay their £3,000 top-up fees upfront this year because the Government has blocked their access to state grants or loans. Student leaders have...
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Five new categories mark second year of awards
In what is fast becoming one of the highlights of higher education's social calendar, the Times Higher Awards 2006 were launched with a champagne party in the National Portrait Gallery in London....
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'Trust' means fewer checks
Higher education's quality watchdog will slash the number of inspections it carries out each year from several hundred to as few as 30 as it moves into a new phase of its light touch audit regime,...
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Sectarian discrimination fears hamper research recruitment
Ulster University must be more active in seeking out research stars, according to an external review chaired by Sir Graeme Davies, vice-chancellor of London University. It fears that UU may be too...
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Musicologists take note of melodies of diaspora
When people move they take their music with them - a phenomenon that will be examined by musicologists in Sicily this spring. A seminar on "the music of diasporas" will be the first major event...
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Red faces after find at green centre
A Spanish research centre specialising in renewable energy and environmental protection is engaged in a clean-up operation after nuclear waste was found in its own backyard. The Centre for Energy,...
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Women lead race to take Harvard top job
As the smoke begins to clear after the departure of Harvard president Lawrence Summers, at least four women have emerged as potential successors. If one were appointed, she would be the first female...
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Student expelled over calendar
A Belarusian university student has been expelled for possessing 5,000 pocket calendars bearing a photograph of academic Alaksandar Milinkevich, the main opposition candidate in this month's...
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Ramallah
Tuition fees for more than 19,000 Palestinian students will be cut by 75 per cent this semester under a Unesco project funded by the Saudi Committee for the Relief of the Palestinian People. The...
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Luxembourg
A Thai research agency has lost a long legal battle to force the European Commission to act against a French academic it claims duped it out of a Brussels grant. The Asian Institute of Technology of...
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Cotonou
Academics at Benin's national university are on strike in protest at the Government's refusal to let them to take part in the selection of the vice-chancellor.
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Sydney
Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University is seeking to break into the ߣߣÊÓƵn MBA market with an application to the New South Wales Government for registration and accreditation of several programmes to...
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Call for teacher training specialist institutions
ߣߣÊÓƵ's deans of education have called on the federal Government to establish special universities to focus on training schoolteachers. In recent years, two thirds of faculties of education have...
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Job plan knocked
Student protests continue in France against a proposed youth employment plan that unions claim will erode employment rights for young people, writes Jane Marshall in Paris. The contrat première...
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Syria gets boost as US is shunned
The number of Syrians studying in the US has declined by a third over the past five years, with universities in Syria benefiting directly as they enter a period of dramatic reform. Syria's...