New boys, but same old club
Labour claims to have reformed the state's finances. It hasn't, says Colin Talbot. We still have the same old private government of public money. When the new Labour government came to power in 1997...
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Belgrade
A Serbian student has failed to raise the £15,000 he needs to study at Oxford despite a massive response from a nationwide appeal by a local newspaper.
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Brussels
A one-year European University Association project involving 11 joint masters programmes at 73 European universities is to be launched next month to discover why the programmes are successful.
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Bucharest
Romania is offering grants to students from Moldova to study at its universities despite a breakdown in negotiations with the Moldovan education ministry.
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Turning a blind eye
Demoralised academics are losing the will to make their students really work for their qualifications, argues Carol Jones. On July 15, I saw some of my philosophy students for the first time ever -...
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Cambridge mauled by its own watchdog
Cambridge University is run like a failing corporation, with "inadequate financial controls, management and planning", according to its standards watchdog. Last week, the board of scrutiny published...
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NHS hit by lack of radiographers
A national shortage of radiographers is hitting National Health Service waiting lists, and not enough graduates are being produced to fill the available posts, an expert at the Robert Gordon...
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Rwanda lays genocide ghosts to rest
Rwanda has produced its first batch of technology and management graduates this month. The 451 students of the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (Kist), who were awarded degrees and diplomas...
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Icon of right snubbed
Montreal's McGill University has rejected a substantial amount of money from a donor keen to establish a chair in the name of late libertarian icon Ayn Rand. McGill dismissed the idea of setting up a...
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New Jersey
The Princeton University official who wrongly accessed rival Yale University's confidential website for applicants has been required to resign his post but will remain employed by the university,...
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Buenos Aires
Students of naval architecture at Argentina's state Universidad Nacional de Quilmes have earned the university $8,000 (£182,000) over the past two years by designing, constructing and selling yachts...
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N'djamena
University authorities in Chad and Bangui and N'djamena in the Central African Republic have stepped up security on their campuses in response to claims of intimidation of students as clashes between...
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Academe presents wish list to Labour
New Zealand's academics have called on the country's new Labour-led minority government to boost investment in universities. The Labour Party formed a coalition last week with the Progressive...
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Italy to link lecturer pay to quality
Pay rises for Italy's academics could soon be subject to periodic "quality checks". University minister Letizia Moratti has said that quality evaluation is "fundamental for the growth of the...
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FP6 hits new hitch
The roll-out of Europe's €16.2 billion (£10 billion) Sixth Framework Programme on research has hit a last-minute hitch. European Union institutions take August off, but the new Danish presidency...