Overhaul awakens 'apartheid' anxieties
South Africa's undergraduate degrees are to be lengthened to four years and split into two sets of two-year courses under radical proposals drafted by the Council on Higher Education. Universities...
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Every beat of her heart
(Photograph) - Gladys Knight, whose three children attended the University of San Diego, is to be awarded an honorary doctorate by the university later this month. But she will appear minus the Pips...
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NZ cools to market forces
New Zealand's new Labour/Alliance coalition government has fulfilled its pre-election promise to set up a commission to advise on a strategic direction for higher education, but it has moved to block...
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Tenure challenged by private university
Four years after publishing a book that stoked debate on Canadian universities, Peter Emberley has further fanned the flames by accepting a private university job, where he is speaking out against...
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Tree warrior
(Photograph) - Students were out in force for Reclaim the Streets demonstrations in Glasgow that passed peacefully. They ended up in reclaiming the trees in Kelvingrove Park, next to Glasgow...
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E. Timor studies get Oz support
Up to 20 East Timorese students are to be given the chance to study in ߣߣÊÓƵ as part of government plans to help rebuild the East Timorese education infrastructure, which has been devastated as a...
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Degree targets drop-out rate
Italian university minister Ortensio Zecchino, who has managed to hold on to his job during the country's latest political crisis, has announced details of "three-plus-two European" degrees. The...
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Flagship sets naval standard
Napoleon once described the port of Antwerp as a dagger that he would aim at the heart of England. Today, the city's maritime activities remain important after the establishment of a world-class...
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Student victory in fight for the right to free bus rides
Several thousand Moldovan students who last month took to the streets of the capital, Chisinau, have won a number of valuable financial concessions from the local authorities and the government. Not...
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Interns vote to call off dispute
France's trainee doctors this week called off industrial action over hours and working conditions that had hit many of the country's teaching hospitals in the past few weeks. Talks with Martine Aubry...
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Cyber Patrol halts student
The maker of a popular software program aimed at protecting children from questionable websites has settled out of court with a Canadian student who not only deciphered the program but let the world...
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Project tackles system crashes
A multimillion-pound joint research project to help prevent potentially disastrous computer failure in global stock markets has been launched. City University is joining forces with the universities...
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Americans offer $100 million grant to help Africa exploit the internet
United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan hopes the offer of more than $100 million (Pounds 64 million) in grants for African universities from four prestigious American philanthropic organisations...
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ߣߣÊÓƵ sees tech future with India
A new report has urged the ߣߣÊÓƵn government to work more closely with India in the development of information technology products. The report by ߣߣÊÓƵ's overseas export organisation Austrade...
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Rules will take up time but may not improve subjects
The benchmarking statements for 22 subjects just produced by the Quality Assurance Agency (back page) are not easy reading. But no one can claim that they have been wished on academe by a hostile...