Faculty forces delay on merger
A plan to merge the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Chinese University of Hong Kong into a single "world-class" university has been put on hold after meeting resistance from...
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Jesuit parachuted in to end turmoil at Prague
Years of internal conflict at Prague's Charles University have been brought to an end with the appointment of a new dean of the university's Catholic theological faculty and plans to concentrate on...
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Turks regain self-rule
Turkey's universities are to regain autonomy under reforms passed by the new government that strip the central higher education authority of most of its powers in the biggest shake-up since the...
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Border controls hit isolated Kaliningrad
Lithuania's preparations for accession to the European Union are creating difficulties for students in Russia's far-western Kaliningrad exclave. New rules covering transit between Kaliningrad and the...
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Far right grows on Serbian campuses
Rightwing anti-western and anti-democratic student groups are rising in popularity among Serbian students. History students at Belgrade University have founded a group to campaign for the...
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Toronto
The University of Toronto's endowment and pension fund has lost C$400 million (£165 million) - equivalent to 10 per cent - in the past two years.
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Bogota
The Colombian government has agreed to cut student fees by between 25 and 50 per cent at 120 universities and higher education institutes in an effort to aid low-income families.
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Astana
Young people applying for higher education in Kazakhstan will have to take a compulsory drug test from this year onwards. Those applicants who are identified as drug users will have to adhere to a...
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Ankara
Turkey has joined the European Union's Socrates programme, which aims to increase ties between universities in the EU and higher education institutions in accession states.
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Bangkok
Thai students are being asked to report on university administration and staff performance. From June, 1,500 students from 78 universities and colleges will assess research papers published by their...
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Beijing
Chinese police are investigating explosions at two of Beijing's leading universities. Ten people were hurt when the separate blasts occurred 90 minutes apart on Tuesday lunchtime in cafeterias at...
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Watch out, continentals learning to talk the talk
The UK has a natural advantage in the global education market, but that may not be enough, says Bernd Wachter Britain's universities are among the most successful providers of education worldwide....
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Gary Day
Why is the government so intent on playing Cupid and leading business and universities to the altar? It'll all end in tears... Just because you work in a university doesn't necessarily mean you know...
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Switched on thinking
Following The Diary's revelation last week that students drop out of London Metropolitan University faster than they can change the light bulbs, staff there have taken to doing the job themselves....
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What a wheeze
The Diary has learnt that words such as "wheee" appear less frequently on websites the more "e"s you add to the end of them - and the decline is more rapid than expected from existing language rules...