Colleges trumpet popular appeal
The UK's leading music colleges want to debunk the myth that they are the preserve of students from privileged backgrounds. This is one of the priorities of the new Conservatoires UK group, which...
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Media courses win BBC support
The BBC has signed two major agreements with universities in the Midlands. The corporation will for the first time provide joint training for students as part of a new media production course at De...
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Edinburgh specialist seeks university status
Edinburgh will have a new university by 2006, according to the principal of the city's Queen Margaret University College, Tony Cohen. There has been past speculation that QMUC might seek university...
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Bristol targets top global spot
Bristol University this week became the latest institution to launch a bid to join the global super league, when it unveiled plans to invest more than Pounds 250 million in new research facilities...
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Anger at Cambridge pay reforms
Heavyweight opposition from the heads of three science departments has prompted Cambridge University to rethink pay reforms that would offer better salaries for senior dons at the expense of junior...
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Degreed Africans trail in job market
South Africa is facing a growing graduate unemployment problem, according to a University of Cape Town study that shows joblessness among people with tertiary education soared from 6 per cent to 15...
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Norwegian students worry little about debt
A survey of Norwegian student finances has revealed that 40 per cent "rarely or never" think about how much they owe. Interviews with students at Oslo and Tromso universities, Stavanger University...
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Russia plans to abolish benefits
A winter of discontent is looming for Russia's million-plus state university students as activists begin to mobilise against plans by President Vladimir Putin to scrap long-established benefits and...
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Polish reform process has a way to go, says report
Polish higher education needs further reform to ensure its graduates' skills can be exploited in an increasingly Westernised and post-industrial country, according to the World Bank and the European...
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Mafia research launched
A dozen Italian universities have joined forces to study and analyse the Mafia and other criminal organisations such as the Camorra and 'Ndrangheta. The programme, also covering new crime syndicates...
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Australian HE needs more cash, say deans
While investment in education is increasing worldwide, Australia's deans of education say that expenditure there is declining. In America, federal spending on education doubled in the eight years to...
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West Africa to step up fees
Higher education ministers from West Africa's Francophone countries are pressing for a dramatic increase in tuition and other fees at universities across the region to offset dwindling state funding...
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China to target bribery culture
The Chinese Government is expected to announce harsh penalties for faculty who take bribes to admit prospective students after a scandal earlier this summer revealed a culture of corruption. The...
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A healthy society needs maggots in the cheese
Universities must ensure that students reflect on the social impact of their actions, argues Richard Hoggart In the past 30 years or so, many British universities have changed character. They have...
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Not-so-hunted hunts the hunter
One way of finding out which senior academics are approaching the big time - at least in political terms - is to check the address book on their Palm Pilot to see how many of the big headhunting...