Nelson to oust Nazis
The excessive focus on Nazi history in schools may be on the wane, suggests Peter Furtado Educationists worry about the sway the Nazis hold in schools. Ofsted recently said that secondary schools...
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Only the privileged need apply
Too little attention has been paid to the financial plight of postgraduates, argues Tim Brown Unexpectedly, the Higher Education Bill has brought postgraduate students good news. For some years the...
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Advanced Highers a Scots success story
Qualifications officials were this week celebrating record entries and rising pass rates in the exam designed to be Scotland's main route for high-fliers into university. Advanced Highers, which...
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Hefce 'buy-off' cash rejected
Northumbria University has turned down a £150,000 payment from the funding council, describing it as an attempt to "buy off" the institution's threatened legal action over the £185 million Higher...
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Medics and artists top job league
Historians and philosophy students are more likely to land jobs immediately after graduation than computer scientists, according to figures. The latest data released by the Higher Education...
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Doncaster edges closer towards new status
Doncaster took a "major step" towards gaining its own university today as a further education college campus was officially designated a "University Centre". Leaders of the Doncaster Education City...
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£50m to coax Welsh to pool their ideas
A £50 million carrot is being dangled before Welsh universities and colleges in an increasingly desperate bid by the funding council to encourage them to merge and to form strategic alliances, writes...
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Elite: fork out for research
ߣߣÊÓƵ's elite research-intensive universities have praised UK Chancellor Gordon Brown's commitment to increase science spending in Britain. But the Group of Eight angered Brendan Nelson, Federal...
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South Africa to replenish science after drought
South Africa's Department of Science and Technology aims to double national spending on research and development over the next six years. Universities and the country's array of science councils hope...
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Italy revives its cultural past with a mix-and-match haven for artists
Rome's academies of art, music, theatre and dance, some of which date back to the Renaissance and Baroque periods, are to merge into one multidisciplinary "arts pole" where students can mix-and-match...
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Bush push to publish accreditation
The Bush Administration and Republicans in the US Congress want university accreditation reports - mostly confidential - to be made available to students and their parents. For more than a century,...
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Court to hear case for fees
Germany may have to abandon its nationwide ban on tuition fees if the Government is told to amend a law on higher education it passed several years ago. The federal constitutional court is to hear a...
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Students lose funds
European student organisations claim that a European Commission rule that has left them without European Union funding for two years is crippling their ability to serve members. Two years ago, the...
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Simon Fraser opts for breadth of study
Vancouver's Simon Fraser University is to make maths students master Milton and literature students learn linear algebra in a reform that will stress breadth of study over specialisation. From the...
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Scots need to counter England's fees bonanza
The Scottish Executive must maintain the competitive position of Scotland's higher education, says David Caldwell The management of higher education may be a devolved function, but for the past year...