Fresh calls for degree revamp
The number of first and upper second class degrees awarded has increased for the fourth year in succession, prompting fresh calls for reform to the degree classification system. A total of 32,500...
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Students win payouts for 'regrettable difficulties'
Sheffield University has offered payments totalling more than £22,000 to students on a troubled masters degree course. In the latest move reflecting a growing consumer-rights culture on university...
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Drilling stuff
Stephen Flint and David Hodgson of Liverpool University's department of earth and ocean sciences are helping a consortium of 11 of the world's leading oil companies to accurately identify...
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Cambridge takes stock of finances
Cambridge University has set up its first investment board and is set to appoint a chief investment officer in an effort to professionalise the management of its endowments more in line with US...
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Tough time in Big Easy as classes begin again
Trumpeter and New Orleans native Wynton Marsalis will lead celebrations to mark the reopening of three of the city's universities on Martin Luther King Day (January 16) after the devastation of...
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French to open elite to the poor
President Jacques Chirac and government ministers are promising to increase opportunities for bright children living in deprived areas to go to university, writes Jane Marshall in Paris. Their...
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Aussies and elephants pitch in but red tape hinders Aceh recovery
Hundreds of Australian academics travelled to the Indonesian province of Aceh to provide humanitarian aid after the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami, while the Australian Government pledged A$1 billion (£424...
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Reconstruction stalled while Sri Lanka struggles for funds
A year after the Boxing Day tsunami, four badly damaged Sri Lankan universities are still struggling to complete even minimal repair work because of a lack of funds. The University Grants Commission...
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A hard line from 'soft' scientists
Social scientists believe that they are being short-changed by proposals for the European Union's seventh framework research programme (FP7) for 2007-13, which is being reshaped after last month's...
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Russia ripe for skills revamp to aid growth
Russian universities face key modernisation challenges if they are to produce graduates with economically useful skills, according to senior government officials. Mikhail Strikhanov, deputy director...
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Church institution slips through secularist net
Russia's first Orthodox public university has opened in St Petersburg in a curious constitutional no-man's-land. The country's secularist constitution insists on the separation of "church and state"...
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A public promise on pay that must be honoured
No more excuses - employers have to fulfil the pledges they made on university salaries, says Sally Hunt The UK higher education sector looks increasingly likely to face widespread disruption as the...
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John Sutherland: Stairway to book heaven
The wilkins library, University College London The refurbished library is officially reopened on January 19 Bloomsbury is to libraries what Oxford Street is to department stores or Soho to knocking...
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He's younger than he looks
Should we worry about the Arts and Humanities Research Council? Perhaps. The Government's official funder of arts and humanities research ought, surely, to have a good grasp of cultural events. But...
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Time for higher thoughts?
It has certainly been a busy few days for Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrats' Education Spokesman. Having been one of those Shadow Cabinet members who declared they could no longer serve under Charles...