Latest stories 23 October

Euro rectors end Serb isolation

Marija Bogdanovic, acting rector of the University of Belgrade, is due to attend this weeks' CRE/Association of European  Rectors conference in Cracow, Poland. She is likely to be confirmed in the job, in succession to Milosevic supporter Jagos Puric, by Serbia's new minister for higher education, Gaso Knezevic.

Drug-busted students denied aid

Almost 7,000 of the 9 million US students who applied for federal aid for this fall are ineligible for some or all of their financial aid because of convictions for drug-related offences, according to the Education Department.