Students win consumer rights
Consumer rights laws applying to ruined holidays or disastrous wedding days have been extended to higher education in a landmark legal ruling. Oxford County Court last week awarded six students up to...
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First tutors graduate from trailblazing PhD supervisors course
A group of Staffordshire University academics has graduated from a pioneering course to formally qualify them to supervise PhD students. The one-year course involved a series of half-day events and...
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Contracts cop-out under fire from MPs
The Commons science and technology committee has expressed frustration that the government has failed to commit to a definite move away from short-term research contracts. The government issued its...
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Progress slow on mergers
Plans for mergers and "reconfiguration" in Welsh higher education have run into opposition from vice-chancellors, governors and staff, funding heads have said, write Tony Tysome and Clive Betts....
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Bold Welsh unleash son of ILA
The Welsh Assembly has stolen a march on Westminster by launching a revamped individual learning accounts scheme. Ministers shut down ILAs in November 2001 when evidence of mis-selling, fraud and...
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£135m for SA aid and mergers
South Africa's universities and technikons are to receive an extra R1.7 billion (£135 million) to support mergers and increase financial aid for poor students. Finance minister Trevor Manuel also...
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Funding stopped for tardy students
The Australian government is considering a plan to cancel federal funding for students who fail to complete their courses on time. Student movements would be tracked by the new ÌÇÐÄVlog...
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Minister: state did murder scholar
The Guatemalan government has accepted responsibility for the murder more than 12 years ago of Guatemalan academic Myrna Mack Chang. Dr Mack, who gained masters degrees from the universities of...
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US split over axed suspect
The University of South Florida faces censure by the leading US faculty union after it last week fired a Palestinian-American professor whom the US government claimed had ties to terrorism. Sami Al-...
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Far-right 'bias' under fire
Rightwing extremists dominate the Austrian government's choice of nominees to new university advisory boards, students have claimed. The bodies, introduced at the beginning of this year, advise deans...
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Italy tells of cell hell
When it comes to the love affair Italians have with their cellphones, even examinations are not sacrosanct. Students have complained to a national newspaper about being repeatedly interrupted by the...
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Turkmen students face currency restrictions in battle against terrorism
Students who leave the central Asian republic of Turkmenistan to study at overseas universities at their own expense have been barred from acquiring hard currency to pay for their courses. On the...
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Whatever your business plan, it's out of date now
Business schools must teach MBAs to adapt quickly to a fast-changing world, says Eamonn Walsh As business schools come under increased scrutiny in the tougher economic environment, many believe that...
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Alison Wolf
It is time we taught our students to speak mathematics - industry is in desperate need of such skills. A near-solitary point of agreement in higher education policy is that universities should all...
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On the path to Eurovision glory
They practice what they preach at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Martin Isherwood, head of music, is composer of the UK's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest this year. His song, Cry...