Poor jump fee hurdle
Bad schooling, not tuition fees, prevents the world's poor from going to university, according to a global study from the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education. The report, by Daniel Levy of the...
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Sunny Scots' dull quest
There seem few less likely projects for a Scottish university to tackle than the problems of sunshine. But the University of Abertay Dundee aims to end the frustration of bank customers being unable...
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Future of peaceline campus in doubt
The Northern Ireland Audit Office is to conduct an investigation into the potential collapse of Northern Ireland's much-vaunted "peaceline" campus. The future of the Springvale campus, with its...
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Health course fails its medical
Quality inspectors have uncovered "strong evidence of plagiarism" on a masters course at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, which was missed by internal and external examiners. The Quality...
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Young tycoons get peer advice
Undergraduates saddled with debt should consider setting up their own businesses rather than work part time in dead-end jobs, according to an organisation set up by Oxford students. Oxford...
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£750,000 wage rise for those at the top
The total pay of university and college heads topped £20 million last year. This figure is more than the University of York received to teach its 8,800 home and European Union students and more than...
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New Delhi
Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has announced an India Science Award worth 2.5 million rupees (£32,000) as part of a package of special incentives to try to keep young scientists in the...
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London
The Centre for English Language at the Aga Khan University in Karachi has won a special commendation in the annual Worldaware Business Awards for its work in encouraging the use of good English among...
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Gaborone
A high court judge in Botswana has ruled in favour of the country's only university in a dispute over the timing of examinations. Students had wanted the exams to be deferred, but the court said that...
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Kampala
Uganda's public universities failed to open for the new academic year last month because part of their funding was diverted to the civil war in the north of the country.
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Moscow
The Lomonosov Moscow State University has acquired samples of new military hardware, including an S-300 air-defence missile system, after a visit by the chiefs of Russia's air force and air defence...
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Abidjan
University teachers of French origin working in Abidjan intend to return to France after a series of attacks by supporters of the Côte d'Ivoire government who accuse France of supporting the rebels.
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazilian students continue to choose private alternatives to public universities, according to the latest higher education ministry survey. Only three public universities are in the top ten. The...
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Seoul
South Korea's prestigious Ehwa Women's University is to lift its 57-year-old ban on married students, recognising that the rule that originally gave many women the freedom to study has become...
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Bangkok
Thai police have launched a crackdown on illegal tuition schools that sell university entrance exam answers. Fifty-eight students at Ramkhamhaeng University have been charged with cheating.