Cash boost for EU e-learning
Extra funding for a European Union scheme to create virtual campuses will increase from €5.4 million (£3.7 million) to €8.1 million if changes made by the European Parliament to a planned 2004-06 e-...
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Aussie graduates escape debt
Increasing numbers of ߣߣÊÓƵn graduates are leaving the country to escape having to repay their deferred tuition fees or to make enough money overseas to cover the bill, a report concludes. The...
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Ottawa
The Canadian government has given C$41 million (£17.7 million) for Arctic research. The money will help to refit an icebreaker and support study of the ecosystem and climate impacts of melting ice in...
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Melbourne
A Chinese student who allegedly shot and killed two students and wounded five others at Monash University in October is expected to plead insanity at trial. Huan Yun Xiang faces two charges of murder...
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Harare
University of Zimbabwe lecturers, who went on strike over allowances on February 21, have returned to work after the government met their demands.
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Enschede
Twente University's Center for Higher Education Policy Studies and the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Higher Education Management have launched a programme for higher education managers.
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Prague
Czech universities should welcome as mature students people once banned from higher education under communism, Craig Stapleton, US ambassador to the Czech Republic told a conference.
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In-term jobs become the US norm
Eight out of ten full-time university students in the US are balancing work with school to help pay for tuition and other expenses. The American Council on Education reports that 77 per cent of...
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Canadian research chairs 'sexist'
A Canadian government scheme to encourage university research and attract academics back from overseas is being challenged by a group of professors who say it may discriminate against women and...
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Faculty-student love matches called off
It may be spring, but romance between US university faculty and students is being nipped in the bud, writes John Marcus. While there have long been unwritten rules discouraging faculty from engaging...
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Statistical myths give lie to white-paper policy
The government hasn't noticed, but access is expanding, and the case for fees is unsound, argues Tim Curtin As the period for consultation on the government's higher education white paper ends, two...
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Alison Wolf
It is only a matter of time before government policy and staffing shortages spell the end of national pay scales On current trends, the question is when, not if, universities abandon centralised,...
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RAE chairs: 'we'll pull out'
The future shape of research funding was in doubt this week after experts threatened to withdraw their help in identifying the very best work. Half the panel chairs in the most recent research...
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UK vigilant over Sars
Aston University has sent letters to about 200 of its international students from countries affected by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, asking them not to attend lectures for ten days and to watch...
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Student shunned in 'nervous' times
(Photograph) - A student who has just returned to Newcastle University from her home in China complained this week that people were avoiding her for fear of catching Sars, writes Nigel Burnham. Elva...