On the move
Chris Ham, director of the health services management centre at Birmingham University, is joining a new strategy unit set up to advise ministers on the future direction of the National Health Service...
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Glittering prizes
The English Association today inaugurates the Fellowship of the English Association, honouring service to English in education.Founding fellows: Eric Anderson, Lincoln College, Oxford; Malcom Andrew...
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Eyewitness
London's new mayor will be able to look to a variety of European cities as he considers his approach to the post. One obvious example is Italy, which opted for directly-elected mayors in 1993. Simon...
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The challenges of change
Morocco is attempting to reform its education system to pull the country into the global economy. Hassan Bouzidi considers the hurdles Consider the following. More than half of Morocco's population...
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Quito
Representatives of the national federation of university students at Quito's Universidad Central del Ecuador have handed over 11 buses seized by student demonstrators on condition that local police...
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Kara
The director-general of Unesco, Koichiro Matsuura, has laid the foundation stone of a new university in the northern town of Kara about 500 kilometres from Lome, capital of Togo. Ampa Johnson, vice-...
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Overhaul awakens 'apartheid' anxieties
South Africa's undergraduate degrees are to be lengthened to four years and split into two sets of two-year courses under radical proposals drafted by the Council on ÌÇÐÄVlog. Universities...
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Every beat of her heart
(Photograph) - Gladys Knight, whose three children attended the University of San Diego, is to be awarded an honorary doctorate by the university later this month. But she will appear minus the Pips...
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NZ cools to market forces
New Zealand's new Labour/Alliance coalition government has fulfilled its pre-election promise to set up a commission to advise on a strategic direction for higher education, but it has moved to block...
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Tenure challenged by private university
Four years after publishing a book that stoked debate on Canadian universities, Peter Emberley has further fanned the flames by accepting a private university job, where he is speaking out against...
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Tree warrior
(Photograph) - Students were out in force for Reclaim the Streets demonstrations in Glasgow that passed peacefully. They ended up in reclaiming the trees in Kelvingrove Park, next to Glasgow...
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E. Timor studies get Oz support
Up to 20 East Timorese students are to be given the chance to study in Australia as part of government plans to help rebuild the East Timorese education infrastructure, which has been devastated as a...
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Degree targets drop-out rate
Italian university minister Ortensio Zecchino, who has managed to hold on to his job during the country's latest political crisis, has announced details of "three-plus-two European" degrees. The...
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Flagship sets naval standard
Napoleon once described the port of Antwerp as a dagger that he would aim at the heart of England. Today, the city's maritime activities remain important after the establishment of a world-class...
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Student victory in fight for the right to free bus rides
Several thousand Moldovan students who last month took to the streets of the capital, Chisinau, have won a number of valuable financial concessions from the local authorities and the government. Not...