'Spend more,' says Busquin
The European Commission wants European Union member states to guarantee medium and long-term university funding and to spend more of their education budgets on higher education. It is also seeking an...
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Reprieve overruled
An Iranian court has reimposed the death sentence on Hashem Aghajari, a history professor at Tehran's Tarbiat Modarress University, convicted of apostasy in 2002 after a speech seen as criticism of...
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Future brightens for north Cypriots
Higher education in the Turkish-controlled area of Cyprus continues to languish under an international embargo after Greek Cypriots rejected the United Nations' latest reunification plan. The...
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UK Bride to bring degree dowry to Russia
Russian students will be able to earn UK degrees without leaving home under a ?2 million Department for Education and Skills scheme called "Bride" - British degrees in Russia. The first 12 of up to...
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Canadian debt rockets
Canadian graduate debt is growing rapidly, according to federal government statistics. Students who borrow to pay for their education leave university about C$20,000 (?8,260) in debt, according to a...
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Down Under looks East
Singapore has opened its doors to its first foreign university. The University of New South Wales in Sydney is to open a A$96 million (?39 million) private teaching and research university in 2007...
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Sleepy youths get later start
US universities have been given an explanation for students' tendency to seem tired all the time - it's not because they stay up too late but because classes start too early. The news has moved at...
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Tip the balance back and maintain US influence
The Bush administration must change policies if American academe is to retain its place on the global stage, says Philip Altbach A large number of little things can add up to a major change - the "...
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Alison Wolf
Why do we need universities? Why not just sell academic courses and individual teaching skills car boot sale style? Do we need universities, as opposed to scholars? Or further education colleges...
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Don's diary: Trip that banishes redundancy blues
December 2003 Strongly advised to consider voluntary redundancy because my post (as head of academic quality and standards at a new university) is apparently no longer needed. Stunned, but hugely...
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After Sainsbury's checkout...
Following reports at the weekend that Lord Sainsbury, the science minister, plans to quit his post and return to the business world at the next general election, rumours are flying about who might...
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Good wine follows a good whine
Weeks spent at loggerheads with Charles Clarke, the education secretary, over the higher education bill seem to have taken their toll on Labour MP Ian Gibson. Ten minutes after arriving at the...
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Superhero gives CPR to MRC
When scientists at the National Institute for Medical Research heard last year that the Medical Research Council was considering closing its HQ, they used the media to vent their anger. Now, as...
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The science behind the spin
Rumour has it that the House of Commons science and technology committee is planning a particularly scathing report about research at the Department for International Development. Last week, Sir...
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Why I believe... the higher education bill will increase alienation from learning
I have come to see contemporary education as an exhausted beast, driven by ignorant politicians, beaten or cajoled by managers, tested and prodded by frazzled teachers. As long as the paperwork can...