On the move
Nick Stuart, director general of the employment, lifelong learning and international directorate at the Department for Education and Employment, is to head a new lifelong learning directorate,...
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Glittering prizes
Chris Welch, principal lecturer in astronautics in the School of MAP Engineering at Kingston University, has been elected vice-chair of the affiliate campuses of the International Space University...
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Eyewitness
In May 1940, 55 British citizens were deported from Denmark to German detention camps near Nuremberg, where they remained throughout the war. The Danish government consented to the deportation of the...
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East reaps what aid sowed
Vera Rich reports on how Britain's academic relations with the former Soviet bloc have ripened in a decade. Ten years ago this month, Lithuania declared independence, triggering a process that within...
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Baltimore
A court has upheld the right of Johns Hopkins University to withhold a diploma from a student who was convicted of murder after he completed the requirements for his degree. Robert J. Harwood Jr is...
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Messina
Two lecturers at Messina University are under investigation for alleged links with the Calabrian Mafia, the 'Ndrangheta. More than 50 arrest warrants have been issued for suspected Mafia members....
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Nis
Albin Kurti, a Kosovar Albanian student, has been jailed for 15 years on charges including separatism, jeopardising the territorial integrity of Yugoslavia and conspiring to commit hostile acts...
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Boycott call in contracts row
The organisation representing German university professors has advised young academics to boycott professorial appointments in the southwestern state of Baden-Wurttemberg. It follows the state...
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French to overhaul teacher training
A decade after comprehensive reform, France's teacher training faces a fresh overhaul, which will give added weight to professional skills and provide students with more classroom experience. The...
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Hope for university reforms follows Spanish election
As Spain's ruling Popular Party savours victory at the polls, academics are critical of the government's record on universities but cautiously optimistic for the future. "The last legislature was not...
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Polish kidnap victims released
Two Polish academics, held by Chechen kidnappers since last August, have been freed after 208 days in captivity. Zofia Fiszer-Malanowska, 66, and Ewa Marchwinska-Wyrwal, 56, environmental biologists...
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US professors admit 'cheating' was their fault
Highly publicised accusations of mass cheating at two of America's top universities have turned out to be embarrassing glimpses at how quickly faculty and administrators seem to be willing to think...
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SA plans 'root and branch' changes
South African higher education is soon to undergo "root-and-branch transformation" that includes a new programme-based subsidy system and radical structural changes to the size and shape of the...
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Nomadic system finds followers
Two senior Australian academics have endorsed the United States model of semester-based appointments, where staff are engaged for nine months a year and may then undertake consultancies or be paid by...
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Cancer student chased for loan
A Canadian student who had to delay her studies after undergoing two operations, cancer therapy and giving birth has been refused any leniency on paying back her student loans. Six months after being...