Property law to be foundation
RADICAL legal reforms launched by the governor of one of Russia's most progressive regions are taking shape with the help of university experts. The Saratov reforms, which include a controversial law...
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Open University's business school launches MBA programme in Russia
The Open University's business school has launched its MBA programme in Russia through a collaboration with LINK, a training organisation set up six years ago by senior academics from the...
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Belorus historian files complaint to police
Belorussian historian Uladzimir Yukho, of the institute of history in Minsk, has filed a complaint against the city's police for mistreatment. He was arrested late last month by riot police when he...
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Budget offers scholars a bounty
A BILLION-DOLLAR scholarship fund was the centre-point of a good-news budget from Canada's federal government last month. Finance minister Paul Martin's budget included a rise in research funding,...
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California looks at entry quotas
THE UNIVERSITY of California is considering breaking with traditional undergraduate admissions and automatically accepting the top 4 per cent of students from every school in the state. The plan...
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Foreign workers in student visa scam
THOUSANDS of foreign students are using their visas as an illegal means of entering Australia. The immigration department has tracked down more than 10,000 who have overstayed their visas in the past...
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Warrior fights for freer speech
Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union and professor of law at New York Law School, is a defender of free speech. Absolutely and uncompromisingly. "I defend hate speech even...
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When demands are a part of education
Africa's francophone campuses need rescuing if learning is to go on. Thirty years ago most students from francophone Africa studied in France. Since the 1970s many countries in the region have set up...
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Surviving campus conflict
Lome, capital of Togo, was thrown into confusion over the rumour that a student union president had died when armed police invaded the university campus earlier this month, writes Tunde Fatunde from...
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A balance in electronic copyright law
Copyright law is a compromise, and compromises do not satisfy everyone. In the case of copyright law, the compromise probably does not satisfy anyone. Publishers are concerned to get a good return on...
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A worldwide web of elite universities
This week and next Oxford University will be debating, behind closed doors, the reforms recommended in the recently published North report. The easy bit for both Oxford and Cambridge to decide on (...
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At last adult learners are on the government agenda
David Blunkett's vision in the green paper The Learning Age is inclusive and generous but not without faults, says Alan Tuckett Adult learners were not uppermost in Kenneth Baker's mind in January...
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Thinking like a man is good for girls
Changes in Oxford University's marking system to accommodate a more 'women-friendly' approach will discourage risk-takers, says Jennifer Davey Finals. That one word can drive me into a state of panic...
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Bigger, better and autonomy intact
ACROSS the British system of higher education there is a deeply-held conviction that academic freedom - the capacity to pursue ideas, including uncomfortable ideas, wherever they lead - is...
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In the dock for art
I AM writing on behalf of the steering committee of the Standing Conference of Arts and Social Sciences, a body whose members are deans of faculties and representatives of subject associations in...