Moscow
About 200 students from the Central African Republic, who held their country's Moscow embassy staff hostage in protest against the failure to honour a promise of air tickets home for the summer...
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Bogota
Jaime Nino Diez, rector of the Universidad Aut"noma de Colombia, announced a switch next year to a new system of evaluation based on "qualitative assessment". But he said the autonomous status of the...
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Beijing
Universities from China's richer eastern regions are sending thousands of volunteer graduates to help develop the country's poorer western provinces. Rich universities such as Nankai and Tianjin are...
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Courses-for-all principle is failing
More than 3,000 students who passed their baccalaureat in the Ile-de-France region will not find a university place until September. A lack of space has yet again created bottlenecks for popular...
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Minister says UK tarred by Derby affair
Mismanagement of a multimillion-pound Israeli operation by the University of Derby has damaged the reputation and interests of United Kingdom higher education, a minister has declared after a...
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Paper pulp is defended
The British Library has defended its decision to dispose of nearly 10 per cent of its historic newspaper collection, after opponents described the space-saving plan as vandalism. Approximately 60,000...
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Principal and academic director suspended in college inquiry
The investigation into financial irregularities at Bretton Hall moved up a gear this week with the suspension of principal and chief executive Gordon Bell and academic director Ron George. The...
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Rewrite demanded for Viz-style guide to survival
Liverpool University's Guild of Students has been asked to amend a Viz-style information leaflet for freshers, after local councillors complained that it did not reflect the city's real issues,...
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Scots in spin over delay to results
Scottish higher education admissions staff were facing turmoil this week as a result of the Scottish Qualifications Authority's delay in issuing applicants' Higher examination results. This year's...
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Subjects and benefits
It is a sad state of affairs that Madsen Pirie feels it necessary to explain that 5 per cent means "one in 20". Or was this an interpolation by a copy editor with an accurate assessment of The THES...
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Talk of funding recall
Funding chiefs are debating whether to launch an investigation into claims that the University of Sheffield's School of East Asian studies unjustly improved its rating in the 1996 research assessment...
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Exeter told to hold hearing for aggrieved researcher
The Queen has ordered Exeter University to set up a grievance committee to hear complaints from Avril Henry, a professor whose research was abandoned because it was ineligible for the research...
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Lecturer appeals against sex harassment ruling
An Edinburgh University academic is appealing against dismissal after an internal university tribunal found him guilty of sexually harassing students. James Carrier, who was appointed reader in...
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Proposed watchdog for health falls short
Government proposals for a new regulatory body for health professionals will not protect the public, say professional bodies. The government plans to replace the Council for Professions Supplementary...
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Pupils urged to apply for loan
Up to a third of Northern Ireland's intending 2000 university entrants have not yet applied for loans, Northern Ireland's minister for higher and further education, training and employment has...