Astana
At least 120 Kazak students at religious colleges in Islamic countries are defying orders from Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev to return home. The order went out in September, triggered by...
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Washington DC
Only 39 per cent of the 172 Roman Catholic colleges in the United States have drawn up plans to cope with the shrinking population of nuns and priests, according to a survey by the Association of...
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Cotonou
The Saudi Arabian-based Islamic Development Bank has given $70,000 (£48,400) to the University of Benin as part of a technical agreement aimed at improving its infrastructure. Most of the money will...
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World view: Numbers are irresistible
Women are overtaking men in universities, and some men are worried, writes Sheldon Rothblatt Over its 800 years, university history contains startling continuities. While much of the medieval or...
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Campus overhaul as Taiwan loosens state strings
Taiwan's first free elections and the appointment of a new education minister in May have speeded up reform of the country's higher education system. Even before the change of government, the country...
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Colleges urged to give men a break
The proportion of male undergraduates at American universities has fallen to 45 per cent, prompting calls for special help - including waivers of admission standards - to increase numbers in the same...
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New Zealand spends £1.6m to ward off loan debacle
The New Zealand government is to spend an extra NZ$6 million (£1.6 million) on the processing of student loans and allowances in a bid to avoid the debacle that dogged university and polytechnic...
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Scanner fingers students
Thai masters students are giving the thumbs-down to lectures before they even begin, thanks to the introduction of fingerprint scanners. Thai universities are much stricter than British ones when it...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Most of the new science centres, funded by the National Lottery through the Millennium Commission, are beating their attendance targets. David Pilling writes that this week's High...
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Atheist attacks church attitude
One of Italy's most eminent philosophers, Paolo Flores d'Arcais, has jumped into the controversy over the attitude of the Catholic church to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants. Professor...
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Bosnian Croats see merger as threat to identity
Bosnian Croat students in Mostar have staged protests against plans to amalgamate its two universities - one on the west bank of the Neretva river, with mainly Croatian students, and one on the east...
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European students secure Lang's backing for a role in making policy
A demand for a stronger student voice at the higher levels of European higher education decision-making was due to be presented to European Union education ministers in Brussels this week. Jack Lang...
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Protest ban fails to deter Arabs
The decision by Israel's university heads to ban political activity on campuses in the first week of the academic year failed to deter the country's Israeli Arab students from their long-term...
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More trainee teachers drop out under Labour
Dropout rates among postgraduate trainee teachers increased dramatically in the first two years of Labour's administration, according to the latest figures. The proportion of students who started...
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Soap star humbly resigns rectorship
Television star Ross Kemp, the student-elected rector of Glasgow University, has resigned four weeks after a no-confidence vote from the Students' Representative Council. Students questioned Mr Kemp'...