Ex-Irish premier converts to tuition fees cause
Garret Fitzgerald, the former Irish premier, has reversed his longstanding opposition to the return of university tuition fees, which were abolished in the mid-1990s by a coalition government...
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US illegals find access denied
Illegal immigrants living in the US face new barriers to higher education after a federal judge ruled that they may be denied admission to universities. The case was brought in Virginia by two...
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Labor vow to axe top-ups
Australia's Labor opposition has warned universities that it will ban top-up fees and full-fee places for Australian students if it wins this year's federal elections. Under last December's changes...
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Harsh rules will 'drive new medics away'
South African opposition MPs say government policies are driving medical graduates overseas and that new legislation will speed up their flight. The Democratic Alliance has called on the government...
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Teacher brain drain threat
Efforts to attain the Department for International Education's Millennium Goal of universal primary education by 2015 may be threatened by the international flow of trained teachers. While there is a...
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Hackles up in New Zealand over affirmative action
Helen Clark, New Zealand's prime minister, has promised a review of academic programmes aimed at ethnic groups after an opposition attack on university admission procedures that favour Maori students...
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Tips from Down Under to make fees policy pay
Australia's experience of tuition fees means England has little to fear, writes Grant Harman. The Labour government's income-contingent variable fees plan for English universities is moving...
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An Offa Lampl can refuse
Speculation is intensifying as to who will head the new Office for Fair Access if the higher education bill becomes law. Millionaire philanthropist Sir Peter Lampl has told Charles Clarke, the...
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Natfhe's excellent negotiators
While the Association of University Teachers deploys one of the most provocative weapons in its fight against the proposed new pay framework (an exam and assessment boycott), lecturers' union Natfhe...
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Randall's home from home
The embryonic Justice Sector Skills Council is so confident that it will receive ministerial approval by the end of the month that it has found itself premises on Gray's Inn Road in London. The new...
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Chip off the old block
Nepotism would appear to stalk the hallowed halls of the Geological Society of London. The current issue of the society's magazine Geoscientist contains a feature on Portland stone lavishly...
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Tough pillow talk
Warwick University students this week launched an attempt to recapture the world record for the largest pillow fight ever. Earlier this month, 967 Warwick students set the mark, but it was soon...
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Reunited: 'Birkbeck, quite rightly, fancies itself'
John Wardle, aka Jah Wobble, studied humanities at Birkbeck College from 1996 to 2000. The former Public Image Limited bassist is now a music producer. In 1996, after a good few years of...
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Why I... recommend greater openness for PhD vivas
Ten years ago, the sociologist Peter Burnham wrote that the PhD viva is "one of the best-kept secrets in British higher education". A decade later, many academics and research students feel that the...
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Learn from rising tiger
Central planning is out as China, unlike the UK, prepares for a globalised future, says Bill Macmillan. The internationalisation of higher education and the fact that there is already a global market...