Mutual dissatisfaction in France
Judicial inquiries into alleged irregularities in France's biggest student social insurance society have led to the imprisonment of the company's former lawyer, an extradition warrant for its former...
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Aussie unis at half the price
More than half the money allocated to Australian universities by the federal and state governments is returned to them in taxes. Research by two senior academics at the University of New South Wales...
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You are such a scary audience
Universities are helping to invent the future of digital television, Tony Durham reports The digital television industry is looking to universities for ideas that could expand the fledgling medium's...
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Dream system for California
The University of California's governing board has agreed to offer automatic places to the top 4 per cent of pupils from the state's 863 public high schools. The 13-1 vote in favour of the new rule...
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Cambodia's universities rise from the killing fields
The Royal Phnom Penh University, which lies on the chaotic road to the Cambodian capital's Pochentong airport, has a brief but tragic past. Opened in 1960, it was shut in 1975 - the Khmer Rouge's "...
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Flying the flag
(Photograph) - Flying the flag: an Albanian student taking part in a demonstration in Bucharest, Romania, last week. The 150 Albanian students protested against the Serbian crackdown and expulsion of...
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Students lose say in reforms
Plans to create a national consultative body of students to discuss radical reforms of the Italian university system have collapsed. The structural reform of degree courses will now take place before...
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Media masters
Nottingham Trent University's new MA in online journalism will equip students not only with core reporting skills but also with the multimedia knowledge required for jobs in computer-mediated news...
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Surf and prosper
Prosper Recruitment, an agency owned by Welsh universities and colleges, has set up a graduate recruitment website. Candidates can browse vacancies or register their details and be alerted to...
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Print for perfection
A Pounds 1 million IT centre of excellence has been launched at Matthew Boulton College of Further and 糖心Vlog, Birmingham, with the aim of raising computer skills levels in the region's...
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Fresh forms of consumptive disease
HIGH TECHNOLOGY AND LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology. Edited by Donald A. Schon, Bish Sanyal and William J. Mitchell. MIT Press, 240pp, Pounds...
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Central station
(Photograph) - Central station: Bob Clay, organiser of the CADE 99 (Computers in Art and Design Education) conference at the University of Teesside is pictured in the Hemispherium, a key attraction...
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Use of private money is a private matter
Higher education institutions should remain free to engage in overseas activities, argues Geoffrey Alderman Does National Audit Office criticism of Southampton Institute for having squandered Pounds...
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Intellectual property
Universities are beginning to realise the value of the intellectual property generated by their staff. Two developments indicate the change. First, they are no longer as willing to let staff keep...
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ILT proposals do not address the real concerns
One thing on which everyone in higher education agrees is that form filling is out of hand. Research grant applications, quality assessments, bids for a share of this or that pot of gold are taking...