Scottish prizes win on prestige
Edinburgh University's James Tait Black memorial prizes may lack the glamour and razzmatazz of the Man Booker or the Orange prizes for fiction, but they make up for it in prestige and longevity. The...
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Survey: University life is a far cry from stereotype
Going into higher education once meant leaving home and behaving badly, but a new survey paints a very different picture. Anna Fazackerley reports. The popular stereotype of the carefree student who...
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French to tackle housing
The growing tendency of French students to study away from home rather than at their local university is putting pressure on student housing. Traditionally, students lived with their parents while...
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Europe's old hands offer expertise
The Coimbra group of Europe's 39 oldest universities is offering itself as a role model for the European higher education and research areas. At the close of a three-day meeting in Siena last week,...
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Teachers' 'shocking' maths takes toll
Maths skills among many schoolteachers are "bordering on the shocking" and are exacerbating already serious problems facing universities in recruiting the next generation of science students and...
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Return-to-work-mums get dads singing
Modern dads are playing a greater role in stimulating their children when mothers return to work early, ensuring that they do not lag behind when they start school. Researchers have found no evidence...
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V-c steps down
The vice-chancellor of the University of New South Wales is to step down after two years in the job. Rory Hume last week resigned from his A$750,000 (?309,099)-a-year job after informing John Yu, the...
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Serbia funding crisis prompts fears of closure
Six universities in the former Yugoslav republic of Serbia and Montenegro are facing possible closure after the government announced that their budgets would be cut by 70 per cent. The cuts would...
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Medic-turned-film-maker reveals female experience
Mary Ayubi was one of the first students to be accepted by the Kabul Medical Institute. It was renovated in 2002 under a USAid-funded project by the Coalition Joint Civil-Military Operations Task...
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Afghans renew call for support
Afghanistan's five universities are beset with corruption, underfunding and poor living conditions, despite the international community's expressed intentions. In February, entrance exams taken by 40...
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US faculty ups pressure to curb presidential pay rises
A walkout by staff at the University of Hawaii over salary issues has been narrowly averted. It was the first time a faculty union and its supporters have made a major issue of administrators'...
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Rome
A court has ordered Ezio Capizzano, a former law professor at Camerino University, to pay the university damages of €120,000 (?80,000) after it was found in 2002 that he obtained sexual services from...
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N'djamena
Lecturers at N'djamena University in the capital city of Chad have begun strike action after not being paid for two months.
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Montreal
Nudists have opposed new residences at Vancouver's University of British Columbia for fear of peeping toms. The Wreck Beach Preservation Society warned that the possibility of students using high-...
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Minsk
Yury Bandazheuski, former rector of the Homiel Medical Institute in Belarus, jailed on charges of taking bribes for entrance exams, has failed to get a transfer to a more open prison. Campaigners...