Advanced video link unveiled in Wales
Europe's largest and most advanced internet-based video-conferencing network for further and higher education was launched in Wales this week. All 37 Welsh universities and colleges will be able to...
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Call to arms over Gats changes
Opponents of the potential liberalisation of higher education are mobilising following the launch of a Department of Trade and Industry consultation paper on the General Agreement on Trade in...
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Body scandals put off medics
Medical students are being deterred from choosing a career in forensic pathology by the scandals arising from the illicit retention of children's organs in Bristol and Alder Hey and the closure of...
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Findings: Henry VI: parts one and two
The ill-fated monarch of England, Henry VI, exhibited all the symptoms of schizophrenia, according to a psychiatric researcher, writes Steve Farrar. The nature of the affliction that blighted the...
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Findings: Rumble in the jungle
It is a battle that never ends, a constant conflict that pits two of Africa's most feared predators against each other on an almost daily basis. Yet although a team of zoologists has found groups of...
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Swiss overhaul sets pace for neighbours
Swiss university rectors are drawing up a framework for a national quality-assurance system that is likely to inform similar moves in neighbouring Austria and Germany. The Conference of University...
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EU aims for a credit currency
European universities are to shun so-called "cafeteria courses" as they devise a credit transfer and accumulation system that will drive ministers' dream of vastly increased student mobility across a...
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Apology for Holocaust denial
Waikato University is to apologise to the Jewish community for the anguish caused by its handling of the case of a researcher accused of Holocaust denial. An independent inquiry by Bill Renwick,...
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Canada's young get campus bug early
Thirteen-year-old Maddie Gordon first thought of going to university when she was ten. She is not the only one. The fingers flipping through university ranking magazines are getting smaller as...
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EU entry could aid title bid
The Cypriot government is to reconsider a decision to prevent private colleges from becoming universities due to the expected impact that joining the European Union will have on student numbers....
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Morocco phases out international programmes
Morocco's private higher education institutions have been given until December 2003 to phase out programmes run in collaboration with overseas universities. The higher education ministry is caught...
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Suicides blamed on exam overload
The suicides of two sisters have highlighted the growing pressures facing Turkey's young people as they scramble for a coveted university place. The sisters killed themselves with a shotgun in a...
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In the news: Sir Richard Sykes
Sir Richard Sykes has already overseen one big merger. As chief executive of pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoWellcome, he managed its union with SmithKline Beecham on December 2000. Now Sir Richard, 60,...
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Don's diary: virtual new student world
Monday From a quick scan of the other students, I pick up that black is still the new black and congratulate myself on getting something right at least. This is my first day as a full-time mature...
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No handicap on quiz
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge - who graduated with a third-class degree - has ticked off vice-chancellors for failing a test on the new disability laws. Disability group Skill asked...