Sitting target
Here is a cautionary tale about the perils of online chat. The appearance of the dear, departed John Randall, former head of the Quality Assurance Agency, live on the EducationGuardian website led to...
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Heavy-duty audit
Meanwhile, Howard Glennerster, professor of social administration in the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics, has revealed the sheer weight of Teaching Quality...
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History dulls senses
Cambridge University Press is speeding up its reaction to current events. Despite the university receiving a royal charter from Henry VIII in 1534 to print and publish books, it did not produce any...
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Burundi plans for peace
Burundi has fewer university students per head than any other African country. A recent independent report, by International Alert, called the state of its education "desperate". Since independence...
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China widens access
The regulation that denies married people and over-25s the right to higher education in China is to be scrapped this year. The move is part of a drive by the ministry of education to increase the...
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Israel's open door proposal opposed
Powerful figures in Israeli higher education are opposing finance ministry proposals to throw open the first year of university to any student who passes matriculation. Under the ministry plan,...
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Toronto blazes trail in giving guarantee to graduates
The University of Toronto has become the first Canadian university to offer a guaranteed level of financial support for graduate students pursuing doctoral degrees, offering them a minimum C$12,000...
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£1 billion Russian plans will scrap entrance exams
Plans to scrap university entrance exams as part of a fundamental reform of the Russian education system are to be announced in Moscow next week. The 42 billion rouble (£1 billion) reforms will...
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Blame flies over missed £5m
College chiefs and lecturers' union leaders have blamed each other for "throwing away" a chance to take an extra £5 million in government funds for pay, enough to avoid strikes next month. The...
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Science take-up declines
A drop in the number of people taking up places to study traditional science subjects is revealed by this week's Universities and Colleges Admissions Service figures, coinciding with the launch of...
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Search starts for the funny bone
Why did the psychologist cross the road? To start an investigation into the science of humour. Richard Wiseman, senior lecturer in psychology at Hertfordshire University and reader in the public...
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Latest international news
Indonesian rector assassinated The rector of Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, has been assassinated by hit-men. Dayan Dawood, 55, was shot on Thursday just after leaving the...
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Latest UK news
BA conference highlights algae fears Poisonous algae are being shipped around the world in the ballast tanks of cargo vessels, delegates at the British Association's Festival of Science heard today....
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From today's UK papers
Guardian Plato's Republic has been voted the greatest work of philosophy, despite the fact that most modern thinkers would rubbish almost all of what he said. Independent Two hundred people have...
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Open door to study haven
Courses designed to accommodate the needs of strictly observant religious groups are in great demand. Caroline Davis reports. If Muhammad won't come to the mountain, the mountain must come to...