Scots cry of 'unfair' is put to the test
MSPs are to investigate whether Scottish universities are "crying wolf" over claims that they will lose out financially to English institutions charging top-up fees. The Scottish Parliament's newly...
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Uppsala
Uppsala University has taken over the Svedberg Laboratory from the Swedish research council, ending the laboratory's status as a national research facility. The laboratory hosts nuclear physics and...
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Madrid
The Spanish rectors' organisation has elected Juan Antonio V zquez, rector of Oviedo University, as its head by an overwhelming majority (52 votes in favour with four abstentions).
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Dhaka
Three Bangladeshi students have been sentenced to death and five others to life imprisonment for their part in the death of a student at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. The woman...
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Rabat
Moroccan security agents have interrogated University of Rabat students from Sudan, Mauritania and Comoros about links with terrorists who worshipped at the university mosque.
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Correction
Revenue from student fees in Canada grew by 135 per cent in the 1990s, not 35 per cent as reported in The THES, June .
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Shadow over Baghdad
When US marines moved into Baghdad from the east at the height of the war in Iraq, they stormed on to the University of Baghdad campus to return fire from Iraqi soldiers hiding in the empty buildings...
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Women tackle ivory tower trade-off...
Women often find an academic career incompatible with the rest of their life, according to a group of professors, students and retired academics who, in a collection of essays and poems, regret how...
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...but hit 'cement wall' objections as ad favours female applicants
A row has broken out in Denmark between government ministers over positive discrimination in an advertisement for professorships, writes Michael de Laine in Køge. The advertisement is for posts in...
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Access to funding opens up in initiative to promote EU unity studies
A range of European Union grants promoting studies of European law, politics, human rights and associated topics are to be grouped together in a programme to which any higher education institution...
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Indonesians face fees as cuts bite
Indonesia's university rectors have responded to a cut in government subsidies by introducing upfront admission fees and moving to replace the national higher education entrance examinations. The...
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Holocaust revision historian faces jail
French historian Jean Plantin last week won an appeal to restore two postgraduate degrees that had been withdrawn on grounds of their Holocaust-related revisionism. But within days of the decision,...
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Michigan ruling reaffirms drive for student diversity
Affirmative action is not perfect but it is the best way to ensure diversity in universities, says Sheldon Elliot Steinbach. The most contentious national issues in the US seem to wind up being...
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Don's diary: 94 books, 30 days, 1 prize
March I am beginning to wonder whether this was such a good idea. Judging the AventisScience Book prize sounded rather prestigious, but looking at the four hugeboxes of books that have just arrived,...
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Grave shortages
Times are hard for universities, so institutions are becoming accustomed to developing novel ways of raising funds. Reading University has decided to sell some of its disused land and has made...