Beijing
China's college entrance exam system is to be made "more democratic and flexible", with a greater emphasis on developing creativity. The education ministry said it will soon start collecting...
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Rome
A group of architecture professors has launched an appeal against plans to rebuild the protective structure over Emperor Augustus's Altar of Peace in Rome. The project, called "the petrol pump"...
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Correction
Jill Macleod Clark, professor of nursing at King's College London, has been appointed deputy dean of the faculty of medicine, health and biological sciences, professor and head of the school of...
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In the news
Tim Brighouse is not a nutter. He won a rumoured Pounds 90,000 in an out-of-court settlement from former education secretary John Patten to prove it. And the present government clearly thinks he has...
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Glittering prizes
The University of the West of England has awarded honorary doctorates of engineering to John Taylor, director-general of research councils in the Department of Trade and Industry's Office of Science...
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Moscow
Russia may end relations between its leading nuclear research institutes and Iran in return for a lifting of United States sanctions imposed last month, nuclear power minister Yevgeni Adamov said...
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Athens
More than 12,000 extra students will be admitted to Greek universities and higher education colleges in September, bringing the total to 74,000, a rise of 18.8 per cent. The plan is for a student...
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Bamako
Police in Mali used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a student march on the office of president Alpha Omar Kanare after he rejected an amnesty for five students condemned to six years' hard...
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Stockholm
A $.5 million donation by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation will help establish global learning and research centres at the Stanford Learning...
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Builders bond a friendship
Uganda needs more primary schools. So Patrick Kelly and students from Britain and Ireland went out to help Last summer, 12 university students from Britain and Ireland rendezvoused at Gatwick Airport...
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Eye witness
Although Poland's Jewish community, three million before the second world war, has fallen to about 30,000, anti-Semitism remains. Religious symbols at concentration camp memorials have led to rows...
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Sarita misses the chattering classes
David Jobbins reports on the South African connection in the second part of a survey on global student mobility Sarita Ranchod studied at Rhodes University before enrolling for a masters in gender...
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Dundee waives fees for Rwandan women's leaders
Speciosa Nakavuma is the first beneficiary of a Dundee University scholarship scheme aimed at helping Rwandan women to rebuild their country. "Rwanda has suffered appallingly in recent years," said...
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Bath degree fails the Italian test
Rome A PhD student at Cambridge with a social science degree from the University of Bath has been told by Italy's largest university that it does not recognise her degree and she will have to do one...
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OU butters up to New Zealand
Wellington Britain's Open University intends to buy subdegree-level programmes from New Zealand's Open Polytechnic following the signing of an agreement between the two institutions. The agreement...