China widens access
The regulation that denies married people and over-25s the right to higher education in China is to be scrapped this year. The move is part of a drive by the ministry of education to increase the...
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Israel's open door proposal opposed
Powerful figures in Israeli higher education are opposing finance ministry proposals to throw open the first year of university to any student who passes matriculation. Under the ministry plan,...
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Toronto blazes trail in giving guarantee to graduates
The University of Toronto has become the first Canadian university to offer a guaranteed level of financial support for graduate students pursuing doctoral degrees, offering them a minimum C$12,000...
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£1 billion Russian plans will scrap entrance exams
Plans to scrap university entrance exams as part of a fundamental reform of the Russian education system are to be announced in Moscow next week. The 42 billion rouble (£1 billion) reforms will...
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Blame flies over missed £5m
College chiefs and lecturers' union leaders have blamed each other for "throwing away" a chance to take an extra £5 million in government funds for pay, enough to avoid strikes next month. The...
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Science take-up declines
A drop in the number of people taking up places to study traditional science subjects is revealed by this week's Universities and Colleges Admissions Service figures, coinciding with the launch of...
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Search starts for the funny bone
Why did the psychologist cross the road? To start an investigation into the science of humour. Richard Wiseman, senior lecturer in psychology at Hertfordshire University and reader in the public...
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Latest international news
Indonesian rector assassinated The rector of Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, has been assassinated by hit-men. Dayan Dawood, 55, was shot on Thursday just after leaving the...
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Latest UK news
BA conference highlights algae fears Poisonous algae are being shipped around the world in the ballast tanks of cargo vessels, delegates at the British Association's Festival of Science heard today....
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From today's UK papers
Guardian Plato's Republic has been voted the greatest work of philosophy, despite the fact that most modern thinkers would rubbish almost all of what he said. Independent Two hundred people have...
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Rousing the boiling frog
John Adams finds that the rise in crime may be linked to the fall in picnics. David Garland begins by asserting: "We quickly grow used to the way things are." His description of our contemporary...
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Crumbling decay and cockroach tea cures
Inventing New Orleans
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Soul-searching in the Homeric man
Flesh and Spirit in the Songs of Homer
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The tide turns on nature's 'master'
Dams and Development
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Modern metropolitan maladies
A Companion to the City