Pretoria
Kader Asmal, South Africa's education minister, was replaced in last week's post-election reshuffle after five years in charge of the education portfolio. His replacement is Naledi Pandor, 50, who...
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Parma
Italy's University of Taste has attracted 480 applications from 30 countries for one of 60 places in the 2004-05 academic year. The university, which will award a degree in gastronomy, is supported...
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Guatemala City
Oscar Berger, the Guatemalan president, has finally acknowledged the Guatemalan government's responsibility for the 1990 killing of Myrna Mack, an anthropologist who was stabbed times outside her...
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Bucharest
Romanian university employees have picketed parliament and political party headquarters after academic salaries were, in effect, doubled while university support staff received nothing.
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Luxembourg
The European Investment Bank has lent €40 million (£22.3 million) to Finland to build, rehabilitate, extend, furnish and equip about 100 buildings for higher education and research throughout the...
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Nairobi
Nairobi University has launched a three-month World Trade Organisation-sponsored regional trade course to allow East African officials to take a more effective role in international negotiations on...
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Libreville
The Gabonese cabinet has banned student unions on the campus of the Omar Bongo University. Opposition students who have refused to appear before a university disciplinary council may be taken to...
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Study exchanges to grow
The European Commission is considering a dramatic expansion of its flagship Erasmus Mundus student exchange programme weeks before the deadline for universities to submit bids to be selected for the...
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'Spend more,' says Busquin
The European Commission wants European Union member states to guarantee medium and long-term university funding and to spend more of their education budgets on higher education. It is also seeking an...
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Reprieve overruled
An Iranian court has reimposed the death sentence on Hashem Aghajari, a history professor at Tehran's Tarbiat Modarress University, convicted of apostasy in 2002 after a speech seen as criticism of...
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Future brightens for north Cypriots
Higher education in the Turkish-controlled area of Cyprus continues to languish under an international embargo after Greek Cypriots rejected the United Nations' latest reunification plan. The...
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UK Bride to bring degree dowry to Russia
Russian students will be able to earn UK degrees without leaving home under a £2 million Department for Education and Skills scheme called "Bride" - British degrees in Russia. The first 12 of up to...
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Canadian debt rockets
Canadian graduate debt is growing rapidly, according to federal government statistics. Students who borrow to pay for their education leave university about C$20,000 (£8,260) in debt, according to a...
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Down Under looks East
Singapore has opened its doors to its first foreign university. The University of New South Wales in Sydney is to open a A$96 million (£39 million) private teaching and research university in 2007...
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Sleepy youths get later start
US universities have been given an explanation for students' tendency to seem tired all the time - it's not because they stay up too late but because classes start too early. The news has moved at...