New test for medics
Thousands of medical and dental students could be sitting a new university entrance exam as early as next summer. The admissions test - the UKCAT - was set up by a consortium of more than 20 medical...
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Clinical teachers fret overVAT trap
A ruling by customs officers over tax arrangements at Glasgow University has aroused fears that hospitals across the country may have to pay tens of millions of pounds in VAT for the work of clincal...
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Prospects perk up with mentors
As the first in her family to go to university, Hannah Goff feels that everyone, no matter what their background, should have the chance to experience university life, writes Becky McCall. Ms Goff,...
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Report slams imprudent leadership at Maori college
New Zealand's most popular higher education institution is riddled with practices that are unacceptable in a public organisation, a report by the Auditor-General says. Bad record-keeping, poor...
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Paris
Peter Smith, Unesco's assistant director-general for education, has said that non-binding Unesco/Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development guidelines on quality cross-border higher...
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Gaborone
Festus Mogae, Botswana's President, last week rejected a direct appeal by academics to allow political science professor Kenneth Good to return to the country until his teenage daughter completes her...
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St Petersburg
The British Council is closing its English-language teaching centre in Russia's second-largest city from April 2006 after the lease on its building ended and alternative accommodation proved too...
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Brussels
The European University Association has suspended the Belarussian State Economic University from membership after it refused to reinstate Taciana Khoma, expelled for attending an ESIB (The National...
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Moscow
A joint Russian-Czech East European Studies journal has been set up between Moscow and Prague to help bridge the gap that has existed in academic relations since the 1968 Soviet invasion of...
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US society rethinks its policy on CIA job ads
The American Association of Anthropologists has removed CIA recruitment adverts from its publications after a row over academic independence. The association, which held its annual conference in...
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Soviet space project
A St Petersburg academic who developed a web-based virtual museum on the history and cultural impact of Russia's kommunalki - Soviet-era communal apartments - hopes to take it worldwide in...
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Students report police brutality
Colombia's notorious Mobile Anti-Disturbance Squad (Esmad) has been deployed at the National University of Colombia, where faculty and students are resisting management-inspired reforms. Human rights...
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Non-academic fees banned amid outcry
ߣߣÊÓƵn universities will be barred from imposing compulsory service fees on their students from July of next year. Academic and student groups say 4,000 jobs would be lost as student services...
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Swedes are told to cut choice
Sweden's National Agency for Higher Education is urging the Government to ensure a better fit between university courses and labour market demands. Chancellor Sigbrit Franke, head of the agency,...
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Ten-year v tenure: do academics need MOTs?
Perhaps university posts shouldn't be for life, but they shouldn't be just for Christmas, either, says Douglas Kell Every year, motor cars are put through MOT tests to assess their fitness for...