Aussie unions fight fees hike
More than 1 million ߣߣÊÓƵns owe the federal government A$8 billion (£2.8 billion) in deferred university tuition payments under the Higher Education Contribution Scheme. The debt for individual...
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Costs deter US college take-up
University opportunity in the US is at a standstill, with virtually no increase in the number of students enrolling in, or completing, college, according to an independent report that says the...
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Indian physicists create website to put spotlight on 'plagiarists'
Indian physicists have set up a website to detail allegations of plagiarism against a vice-chancellor of an Indian university and a fellow researcher. They acted after a published paper under the...
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Irish voters riled
A hint of a return to higher education tuition fees in Ireland - abolished six years ago - has led to political confusion in the run-up to this month's referendum on the European Union. Political...
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Rectors threaten walk-out
The rectors of Italy's universities have threatened to resign en masse if the government goes ahead with a cut in resources for higher education and research. In a separate development, Italy's...
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Don's diary: search for 'Palaeolithic Pompeii'
Tuesday With my invitation and £120 in hand, I join the visa scrum and aim for Russia. I am off to examine an ancient volcanic deposit buried deep beneath the Steppe, in a layer close to where...
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In the news: C. elegans
Simplicity was always the key to Caenorhabditis elegans' success. This transparent worm, just a millimetre in length, thrives throughout the world yet is among the most primitive organisms imaginable...
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Bath's goal is FA glory
Only two more victories to go before the first university side for more than 100 years reaches the FA Cup as we know it. Team Bath will appear in a third-round qualifier. The team - whose players...
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Riding high on ratings
In ten days, Sarah Waters will learn whether she has won the Booker prize for her novel Fingersmith . She has become the bookies' second favourite since a television adaptation of her first book,...
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The only link?
On the stroke of noon today it will be revealed whether Chris Woodhead, formerly England's chief inspector of schools and now research professor at the University of Buckingham, is extending his...
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No Grant for Hodge
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge - who memorably informed delegates that she had left her old council stamping ground, Islington, with the phrase "I'm not Islington any more. I'm Barking" -...
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We're all Domed
The London Business School has hit on a novel idea - getting the former chief executive of the Millennium Dome, P. Y. Gerbeau, to teach its students about managing successful entertainment...
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Campaign for sale
A begging letter has arrived from the "Education is not for sale" campaign. The group is concerned that once private money has been put into education, "the things we learn are increasingly the...
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Naked ambition needed
A university college has received a glut of applications from nude models after a local Jobcentre banned its advert for people to pose for life drawing classes. Staff at the Jobcentre told lecturers...
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To ensure our survival, we must band together
In the aftermath of the research assessment exercise, a number of university education departments are questioning whether high-quality research is compatible with quality initial training - and...