Tardy marking delays graduation day
A postgraduate student is seeking compensation from Nottingham University after its school of education took four-and-a-half months to mark one assignment, causing him to miss his graduation date by...
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A prescription for a capital's health?
As London's medical sector continues to consolidate its resources, Steve Farrar considers the future of the capital's remaining independent institutions and asks whether bigger really is better When...
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French university enrolments
Paris French university enrolments continued to fall in 1998-99 for the third year running, though there were more first-year students after a high baccalaureat success in 1998. There were 1,424,395...
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Qinghua University
Qinghua Qinghua University has given the go-ahead to a number of students who want to open or join businesses. Students will retain their student status for two years. Half of the 16 businesses at...
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Don's diary
Sunday Arrive in Perth, Western Australia, after a long haul and a quick reviving shower in Singapore. Spent the waking hours in conversation with two backpacking postgraduates, a geologist and a...
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Downright rude Latin
Traditionalists may deplore the decline in the number of classical scholars, but Dundee University is doing its best to attract a new generation. Its list of courses for adults in the coming year...
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All you need to know
Open government is the new watchword at the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England, to judge from the invitation to tender for its massive new evaluation of research funding. A bulk email...
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Trust William
Talk about unlucky. No sooner does Bristol University decide to spend considerable amounts of time and money making itself more attractive to students from lower social classes, than Prince William...
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Give your don a break
Surprise! Academics at Salford University were in the midst of a student discussion group when who should burst in but comedian Les Dennis announcing they were all on TV. Student Mark Small had been...
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In the news
When John Andrews retires next May as chief executive of the Further and ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Councils for Wales he will leave Welsh post-16 education transformed, even without the wholesale...
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Albania in drive to reach EU standard
ROME Italy is leading a drive to bring Albania into the European higher education network and bring its universities up to modern standards. Italian and Albanian government and university officials...
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Russians guided through linguistic jungle
MOSCOW Russian is a notoriously difficult language to learn and even natives often stumble over the grammatical complexities of declensions and conjugations. Grammars and dictionaries do not always...
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On the move
The Rt Hon. The Lord Paul of Marylebone, chairman of the Caparo Manufacturing Group, is to be the new chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton. He succeeds the university's first chancellor, the...
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Aid is a hand-out to tyranny
Donald Hagger condemns the blinkered theories behind western aid to Indonesia's brutal government As Indonesia descends into chaos, severe doubts arise about the theories of development aid that have...
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University of Cuzco
Cuzco Students at the University of Cuzco have protested against Peruvian government plans to build a cable car in the heart of Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas and the most famous ruins in...