Heaney gift to Queen's
Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has returned to his alma mater, Queen's University Belfast, to donate the papers from his award-winning verse translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf . Dr Heaney's...
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Keep London creative
London's universities must enhance the capital's position in the creative sector by offering new courses and employing leading practitioners to teach them, according to the group London Higher....
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MRC news 'has not knocked us off course'
King's College London may have lost out on a major research deal, but new principal Rick Trainor is determined not to be pessimistic. For months, King's has been pitched against University College...
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Wolverhampton back to court over 'harm' claim
A law student who was handed £30,000 by Wolverhampton University after he claimed he had received a substandard education has returned to the courts to accuse the university of "intentionally...
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Feel any chemistry between us two?
Sipping wine to the strains of Barry White in a room bedecked with heart-shaped balloons, about 50 scientists gathered at Manchester University on Valentine's Day in search of the perfect partner,...
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Ending visa appeals could cost UK dear, critics say
Thousands of overseas students could be prevented or put off from studying in the UK by "fundamentally unjust" government plans to scrap appeals against visa refusals, immigration advisers have...
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Canadian fee scheme 'unites worst of US and UK systems'
Canada's federal Government may soon face a plea from its richest and most populous province for the rate of interest on student loans to be more than halved. Ontario's former premier, Bob Rae,...
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Head is sacked over joke
The pro-rector of a university in Belarus has been fired two months after being accused of failing to control students who poked fun at the country's president. In the opinion of provincial...
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Bush in student aid swap
President George W. Bush has proposed a dramatic increase in the US's biggest tuition grant programme, but by making drastic cuts in other financial assistance. The President, in his $2.57 trillion...
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Visa fees hiked
The waning number of international scholars appointed to jobs at US universities may fall even further after a new law makes hiring them more expensive, writes John Marcus, in Boston. Changes to the...
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Grads lured back to China
China's continuing economic development is bringing its overseas students back home in greater numbers. In a survey, the majority of Chinese studying abroad expressed a willingness to return to work...
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V-cs told to seek approval for cuts
ߣߣÊÓƵn universities will be required to obtain the approval of the federal Minister for Education, Brendan Nelson, before closing any courses. Dr Nelson warned vice-chancellors that they had...
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US asked to open up private market
The European Commission has formally requested that the US Government scrap restrictions on European Union "privately funded education services" seeking access to the US markets. The proposal was one...
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Over-60s overdemand
Pensioners in the Czech Republic are being turned away in their thousands from university lifelong learning courses as demand for higher education among the over-60s outstrips supply. Some 100,000 of...
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Wield that sword of truth with an iron will
When lies are the norm, academic integrity is bunk, argues Bob Brecher As our universities busily reinvent themselves as second-rate businesses whose function is to supply so-called graduates (at...