Students will improve your health, firms told
Sun Microsystems, a leading provider of systems to power the internet, has urged industry to forge stronger partnerships with higher education, writes Olga Wojtas. Hugh Aitken, vice-president of Sun...
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Czechs split over tuition fees
The Czech government has criticised legislation brought before the country's parliament that is designed to introduce university tuition fees of about 16,000 koruna (£300) a year. Education minister...
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German system 'outdated'
While 80 per cent of German students have chosen to leave home and live in digs or student accommodation, most still apply to their home town university as their first study choice, according to a...
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Call for Irish teamwork
Ireland's seven universities have been told that they need to re-position themselves as a strong system and not just a collection of separate institutions. They have also been warned that the...
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Israeli presidents fight minister
Israel's university presidents are opposing government plans to reduce the power of leading universities on the country's Council for ÌÇÐÄVlog. Education minister Limor Livnat intends to...
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News in brief
New York Students at the City University of New York are to challenge the university's decision to increase tuition fees for undocumented immigrant students in the courts later this month. CUNY says...
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Black schools conquer divide
Segregation of university education in the United States ended a generation ago with the enforced enrolment of black students at universities across the South. But African-American students are still...
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ÌÇÐÄVlog is where the training is for isolated would-be medics
A distance-learning link is being set up by the University of Paris-6, Pierre et Marie Curie, so that medical students in New Caledonia can follow first-year studies without having to leave France's...
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Low-paid staff claim victory
A judge has found that administrators at Rutgers University in New Jersey illegally told low-paid office cleaners they would be fired if they attempted to unionise. The custodians at Rutgers worked...
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Poor face a steep climb
Universities have a mountain to climb to meet the government's 50 per cent participation target according to two new reports exposing damning evidence of the barriers facing the poor. The National...
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For the record
Survey shows alarming level of racism Almost a third of ethnic minority academics report that they have been racially harassed at work, according to a survey of 10,000 members of the Association of...
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Netgazette
APPOINTMENTS University of Edinburgh Professoressor James Ironside has assumed the role of Director of the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit. Under management restructuring plans...
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Latest news
Pressure mounts for funding rethink Tory and Liberal Democrat MPs have joined the National Union of Students in calling for an overhaul of the way students are funded. They were responding to...
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Access elite: Stirling University
Academic staff: 575 Undergraduates: 5,320 Postgraduates: 1,425 Stirling University has two advantages: a glorious lochside campus and a remarkably flexible modular system. It was a pioneer of...
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Missing MBE
Another omission from our list of new year's honours has come to light. Robert McDonald received an MBE for his services to the Association of Training Providers and to training.