Exchanges move up agenda after terrorism
A year after the September 11 terrorist attacks, US students consider international educational exchanges significantly more important than they were before that date, says an Institute of...
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Cut our tuition...or the fish die
Tuition fees of €500 (£317) a semester - to take effect in 2004 - have provoked a hostage crisis in the city of Hamburg. Fees are so controversial in Germany that when the government of Hamburg...
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Overseas numbers increase in France
An overseas recruitment campaign and simpler entry procedures have helped raise the number of foreigners studying in France, even though the agency set up to attract overseas students has admitted...
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Universities delay funding deals to try to derail fee capping
New Zealand universities are using the government's fee stabilisation deal as a bargaining card to delay legislation that would allow the government to set maximum limits on tuition fees. The...
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Don's diary: Magnetic migration music
Have you noticed that there are fragments of audio tape flapping in the wind? They can be found all over the place. The fact that music can cross boundaries is well known, but this is physical......
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In the news: Matt Barr
Matt Barr is prepared to die. The 21-year-old art student at Brighton and Hove College is a peace protester, part of a British delegation preparing to go to Baghdad, where they intend to act as "...
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Much ado about nothing
It was a title that could not fail to catch the eye - "Nitrous Oxide and William Shakespeare". Was laughing gas to be revealed as a secret ingredient in the Bard's comedies? Alas, no. The paper, to...
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Cambridge outrage ill-founded
Far from stifling invention, Cambridge will thrive under a unified IPR policy, insists Alec Broers In the past, Cambridge University has been criticised for failing to commercialise its best...
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Equity can trip us up
Initiatives to give students a career boost may be failing those most in need, argues John Brennan If you were born on the wrong side of the tracks and you haven't become a professional footballer or...
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Why I... think compulsory retirement should be abolished
Although not implemented until 2006, the European directive of November 2001 on workplace discrimination has altered everything and has made voluntary retirement a national issue. University unions...
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Dentists should be drilled in social skills
Dentists of the future must learn to soothe as well as sedate, says new guidance for dental degree providers, and in doing so they have to get to know their patients. This year, a regulatory change...
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Union fury over PRP push
Plans for an extension of performance-related pay for academics will be included in the government's blueprint for a free market in higher education, it became clear this week. Higher education...
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More mature students sign up
There has been a rise of almost 6 per cent in the number of over-21s accepted on to undergraduate courses compared with last year. Figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show...
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Hefce raises aid for student support by 5%
Universities and colleges have been given more than £91 million for student-support initiatives next year, a 5 per cent increase on last year. For 2002-03, the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for...
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E-governance gets first professor at Napier
Napier University has appointed Ann Macintosh, director of the International Teledemocracy Centre based at Napier, the world's first professor of e-governance. The centre aims to widen public...