Pay heed to private life
University lecturers in London should get much bigger salaries than their colleagues in the Northeast, argues Andrew Oswald. Britain and other industrial nations should make public-sector pay more...
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No need to fit round pegs into square holes
Tutors need to tune in to students' writing, not make it conform, Carys Jones tells Jennifer Currie. The world of academia is a tough nut to crack for most students. Many see themselves as aliens who...
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Transferable skills
The ladies who do are becoming the ladies who dig. Warwick University cleaner and unsung heroine Trudy Wiles, more used to excavating rubbish bins, is taking a short course on how to spot and...
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Ode to Sir Robert
Sir Robert May is the sort of man who inspires songs. As he clears his desk at the end of his term as chief scientific adviser, he might reflect on the ditty that former Princeton colleagues penned...
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Beauty in Humberside
Oscar-winning Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow is on campus at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside this week shooting scenes for her new movie. Ms Paltrow is spending five days filming...
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Eyewitness
Universities on opposing sides of the divide in Iraq are appealing to the international academic community to help counter the effects of a decade of United Nations sanctions. They took advantage of...
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Moscow
Russian government officials and television executives were this week considering using the top of Moscow State University's main tower as a transmission platform after fire tore through the city's...
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Abidjan
Ten students from the University of Cote d'Ivoire went on hunger strike inside the capital's Catholic cathedral in protest at military leader General Robert Guei's decision to run for president. They...
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Moroni
The prospect of students from the secessionist island of Don Juan in the Comores getting into the University of Comorian Islands at Moroni, the capital, this October looks bleak. Lecturers refused to...
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Santiago
An administrative hiccup at the University of Santiago, Chile, has left 157 students without a place, despite obtaining full entrance requirements. A further 159 were forced to enrol at other...
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Lima
Archaeology students at Peruvian universities Federico Villarreal and Mayor de San Marcos have succeeded in blocking the auction sale of pre-Hispanic Wari and Chancay textiles valued at $4,000 (...
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'Eternal' students are expelled in World Bank overhaul
More than 26,000 "eternal" students have been expelled from Madagascar's six public universities and two polytechnics and admission procedures tightened in a World Bank-inspired drive to improve...
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Info gap widens for poor countries
Developing countries face a form of "scientific apartheid" as the richer nations widen the knowledge gap, a senior World Bank official warned last week. Ismail Serageldin, a vice-president of the...
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Italy puts an end to open access
Italy has given the final go-ahead for a radical reform of university degrees that spells an end to the principle of open access for all secondary school graduates, a principle won by the student...
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Urban waste reborn as Sorbonne Mark II
A new Latin Quarter is rising from urban wasteland in the southeast corner of Paris, with a new Sorbonne for 40,000 students at its centre. After a decade marked by financial and economic setbacks,...