No relief for students as sector cashes in
Canadian university revenues are booming but students say the extra money has done nothing to lessen their financial burdens. Revenues rose 15.7 per cent between 1998-99 and 1999-2000. Fees rose 9.8...
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General is snubbed by ethical Nigeria
Nigeria's university commission has withdrawn a licence granted to former dictator General Ibrahim Babangida to establish the private Heritage University in northern Nigeria. It is the first time a...
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Grim week for groundbreaking females as two chiefs forced out of office
For the first time in ߣߣÊÓƵ a chancellor at one university and a vice-chancellor at another have been forced out of office in the same week, writes Geoff Maslen. The University of Sydney senate...
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Oz rules in favour of sacked scholar
An international boycott imposed on the University of Wollongong after one of its senior academics was summarily dismissed in February has been lifted following a federal court decision last week....
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Ecology journal archive is launched
UK universities can now access an ecology and botany collection comprising 29 journals and more than 1 million pages put together by Jstor, the scholarly journals archive. It is the third digital...
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Call for links to aid e-business
Universities and software process development companies could hold the key to business survival in the networked economy. More than 2,500 academic and business delegates at a recent Rational-Software...
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Arrest sparks boycott of US
Foreign academics are boycotting US-based research programmes and conferences in reaction to the arrest of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, a lobby group has claimed. The Electronic Frontier...
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Scots prime physics talent
Scotland's innovative Institute for System Level Integration is trying to capture the younger generation through a workshop for physics teachers. The workshop is part of a pioneering summer school...
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Pioneers weather the storm
A degree course in mobile computing is being launched by Staffordshire University at the same time as the industry is facing global recession. Thousands of jobs have been shed by multinational...
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Greeks wooed by low fares
Despite Crete's climate and an enviable record for publication in international journals - the highest in Greece - the island's university has chronic difficulty in attracting students. Crete's...
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Trying to keep the plates spinning
Multi-tasking Lindsay Taylor strives to keep her balance and save students from themselves in the third in our series from the grass roots. I have a mental picture of my job that closely resembles...
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Why we... believe that 'Jerusalem' is not a nationalistic hymn
As abstruse 18th-century lyrics go, William Blake's "Jerusalem" has staying power. A teacup of controversy was stirred last week when the musical director of Cheadle Parish Church, Martyn Barrow,...
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Two wings are better than one
A single lecturers' union is appealing, says Tom Wilson, but there is a lot more to it than a simple merger. Ask almost any member of the Association of University Teachers and the National...
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A complex challenge
The government will not achieve its ambition to widen access until it overhauls the student-support system, writes Lindsey Fidler. Since 1997, anybody involved in higher education has had it drummed...
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The frosty welcome is part of the package
A group of glaciologists has escaped the British weather for somewhere... colder. In the fourth article on what researchers do in the summer, Bryn Hubbard reports from the Arctic island of...