On the move
The University of Bradford has appointed Diana Anderson and Val Randall of the department of biological sciences to professorships. John Campbell , fellow of New College, Oxford , has been appointed...
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Nomenklatura UK
Hugo Radice, director of Leeds University Centre for Russian, Eurasian and Central European Studies, has a novel take on why we complain about the research assessment exercise and the teaching...
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Classroom criminals
The Universities UK funding options group, in its final report, revealed some interesting benefits of higher education. It has identified no fewer than 11 reasons why higher education is a good thing...
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Learn to go alone
Rose Mary Farenden, a senior executive with the Ford Motor Company, has revealed what life was like as the only woman in the mechanical engineering class at Queen's University, Belfast, in the early...
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Eyewitness
Jews believe Jerusalem's Temple Mount was where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac in a test of his obedience. To Christians, it is where Jesus overturned the tables of the moneychangers and was...
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World watch
Washington DC In his first budget, United States President George W. Bush is to include aid for higher education and science, including a doubling of the allocation for the National Institutes of...
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Web weaves togetherness
The US system of regional accreditation may not survive the trend for online degrees, says Geoffrey Alderman. Last autumn, the eight regional commissions that accredit higher-education institutions...
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Islamic threat to women's college
One of Africa's oldest universities for women is struggling to survive in the face of official policies to promote fundamentalist Islamic values. Khartoum's Ahfad University, which teaches only in...
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Minister faces fraud allegations
Zimbabwe information minister Jonathan Moyo is being sued in Kenya for allegedly embezzling £51,600 from a Ford Foundation-funded project on alternative research in East Africa during the 1990s. The...
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Outspoken minister saves Quebec HE funds
Canadian education minister François Legault took a political risk by questioning his government's commitment to higher education and, in the process, may have saved Quebec universities from millions...
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US access measures blocked
Less than a year after promising to find new ways to increase the ranks of low-income and minority students on their campuses, American universities have found their way largely blocked by political...
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Course gives Dutch dropouts direction
A scheme to help student dropouts structure their futures is increasing in popularity as its reputation spreads within the Netherlands. The Hogeschool van Amsterdam (Amsterdam College) and the...
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Rector resigns but may be sued
One of Italy's best-known sociologists, Francesco Alberoni, has announced his resignation as rector of an independent university in Milan in protest against "practices that I consider corrupt,...
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Student diplomats among worst drug users
Moscow State University has the highest proportion of drug users among its student body of all Russia's universities, a dubious honour it shares with the International Relations Institute that trains...
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Teacher training overhaul
France's teacher training is to undergo wide-ranging reforms that will affect every sector of the system, from improving future teachers' knowledge of their specialised subjects before they start...