Russia plans to abolish benefits
A winter of discontent is looming for Russia's million-plus state university students as activists begin to mobilise against plans by President Vladimir Putin to scrap long-established benefits and...
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Polish reform process has a way to go, says report
Polish higher education needs further reform to ensure its graduates' skills can be exploited in an increasingly Westernised and post-industrial country, according to the World Bank and the European...
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Mafia research launched
A dozen Italian universities have joined forces to study and analyse the Mafia and other criminal organisations such as the Camorra and 'Ndrangheta. The programme, also covering new crime syndicates...
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ߣߣÊÓƵn HE needs more cash, say deans
While investment in education is increasing worldwide, ߣߣÊÓƵ's deans of education say that expenditure there is declining. In America, federal spending on education doubled in the eight years to...
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West Africa to step up fees
Higher education ministers from West Africa's Francophone countries are pressing for a dramatic increase in tuition and other fees at universities across the region to offset dwindling state funding...
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China to target bribery culture
The Chinese Government is expected to announce harsh penalties for faculty who take bribes to admit prospective students after a scandal earlier this summer revealed a culture of corruption. The...
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A healthy society needs maggots in the cheese
Universities must ensure that students reflect on the social impact of their actions, argues Richard Hoggart In the past 30 years or so, many British universities have changed character. They have...
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Not-so-hunted hunts the hunter
One way of finding out which senior academics are approaching the big time - at least in political terms - is to check the address book on their Palm Pilot to see how many of the big headhunting...
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Challenge to appease Paxman
If you can't hold your breath until Jeremy Paxman announces the winners of the latest series of BBC quiz University Challenge next spring, fear not. The Oxford Student , Oxford University's student...
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Minister has p's and q's watched
Apparently, Alan Johnson, the former Higher Education Minister who landed the job of Work and Pensions Secretary in the recent reshuffle, looks back fondly on his days at the Department for Education...
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See the irony? That'll be the Day
The Guardian is, of course, a serious paper, but perhaps it needs to work on its appreciation of irony. Irreverent Times Higher columnist Gary Day was more than a little surprised to find himself...
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My revolting past
Once he'd got to grips with the lingo, political theorist Norman Geras got stuck into philosophy and poker at Oxford in the Sixties Nowadays Norman Geras, emeritus professor of politics at Manchester...
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Why I... laugh
I am buried in academic paperwork. As Americans throw money at problems, I asked my head of department for part-time secretarial help. I even offered to fund it out of my salary. But I was told that...
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God's just too small
Religion has no more claim to true spirituality than science, says Richard Dawkins Alister McGrath's book Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life does a fair and sophisticated job of...
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A truly postmodern shafting
Restructuring can hold unpleasant surprises. Get a lawyer fast, says Valerie Atkinson If someone were to compile a list of the rituals and routines observed by staff in their first half hour at work...