Europe is 'threat to Russian excellence'
Two centuries of Russian academic excellence could be squandered in the rush to standardise higher education across Europe, academics have warned. Leaders of Russia's top universities voiced their...
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California
Arnold Schwarzenegger was not the only winner in the California elections. Opponents of a proposal to prevent public universities from collecting information about the ethnic origins of individuals...
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Denver
The proportion of the US population pursuing higher and further education is falling behind other industrialised countries, according to the Education Commission of the States. The non-partisan body...
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Skopje
Student complaints have prompted a Macedonian university to pulp a new politics textbook written by three of its professors because it described Nato and the US as the "world's leading terrorists"....
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Budapest
Plans to privatise Hungary's universities and higher education colleges have raised fears of job losses and a narrowing of the range of subjects on offer. The country's Trade Union of Higher...
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Beijing
After cosmonauts and astronauts come yuhangyuan . China launched its bid to become the third country to send a man into space on Wednesday. The Shenzhou 5 spacecraft carried a 38-year-old fighter...
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Charitable connections keep our science strong
Proposals to remove charity income from funding formulas bode ill for vital research, says Mark Walport This time last year charities were feeling rather upbeat about the future funding of university...
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Alison Wolf
Entry decisions based on points are a minefield and will not work in an admissions system run on a shoestring A few years ago, at an ߣߣÊÓƵn sandstone (read Russell Group) university, I was...
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Don's diary: games and gold medals in Mind
Friday All keyed up for tomorrow's start of the Mind Sports Olympiad - an annual games festival in which all the contests are thinking games and competitions using other mental skills. Anyone may...
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Honoured with a whipping
Hats off to Bob Stone. The professor of interactive multimedia systems at the University of Birmingham has received the unusual distinction of being made an honorary Cossack for his services to...
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A way ahead for wayward birds
A novel application has emerged from the work of Yohsuke Kamide, from Nagoya University in Japan, who has developed a system that tracks variations in the Earth's magnetic field caused by subatomic...
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Can cook, won't pay
TV chef Clarissa Dickson Wright, the student-elected rector of Aberdeen University, has an unconventional solution to student debt. The star of Two Fat Ladies - who is filing for bankruptcy - is...
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Cheers! Students are back
Drinks companies are counting their takings after hundreds of freshers' week events up and down the country. Last week, Inventive Leisure, the company behind the Revolution vodka-bar chain, announced...
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Why I ... think the Booker is relevant to the study of literature
Does the Booker Prize have any relevance to the academic study of literature? The answer is a complicated yes. Winning novels, and many shortlisted ones, constitute a chief part of the (non-US)...
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Don't lose MSc magic
Undergraduate top-ups lead the news but masters students will be hit harder, says Bruce Yardley Mention "fees" to most people and the first thing they think about is the cost of undergraduate courses...