From today's UK papers
Financial Times Ashkenazi Jews, who are among the most genetically homogeneous groups in the world, may offer a fast track to new drugs. Guardian A confidential government report on racism...
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Latest UK news
Scottish merger approved The Scottish Executive has approved the merging of Northern College's two campuses with Aberdeen and Dundee universities respectively, a year after the merger was expected....
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Whistleblowers: Swansea says sorry
Swansea says sorry Swansea University's student union has publicly apologised for unfairly dismissing its general manager, Nick Tregoning, and has made an out-of-court settlement. The THES reported...
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Birthday honours
The full list of academics to receive the Queen's birthday honours this year. COMPANION OF HONOUR Sir Colin Rex Davis , principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, for services to music....
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World Watch
Sana'a A Sudanese morgue worker who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering two female students at Sana'a University in the Yemen has been publicly executed by firing squad. Munich Germany'...
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Eyewitness: Secret police allegations rock Czechs
A political scandal is brewing in Prague over revelations that more than 100 former Communist-era secret police and informers have used false documents to gain work in the defence and foreign...
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World view: We don't want a fight, but...
New Zealand's government promised universities a better deal. It is now time for it to deliver, says Bryan Gould. The relations between universities and governments are often fraught. In countries...
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Dropouts add to SA problems
Student dropouts cost South Africa Rs1.3 billion (£116 million) a year and divert resources from the expansion of higher education and redressing inequalities that remain from the apartheid era,...
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Dons oppose fund cut
Israeli education minister Limor Livnat has called on the government to drop plans for a 213 million shekels (£30 million) cut in the higher education budget. The government has cut budgets in all...
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Union fights on after uneven victory in pay war
Australian university staff have won pay rises worth 12 to 16 per cent over the next three years. All but four universities have negotiated three-year enterprise agreements with staff unions that set...
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Allies to focus on industry
Canada and the United Kingdom have formed a partnership to encourage bilateral contacts. Its origins lie in a joint declaration signed in 1997 by prime ministers Tony Blair and Jean Chrétien that...
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Calm after boycott
After four months of boycotts by students, an uneasy calm has settled on the National University in Niamey, capital of Niger. Plain-clothes police mingle with students. Security agents have orders to...
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Munich first choice for dons visiting Germany
Munich has become the most popular German destination for visiting academics, according to a survey by the main sponsorship body for foreign academics. The city's university attracted 120 visiting...
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Vatican blesses ethics faculty
What is claimed to be the world's first faculty of bioethics will open this autumn at one of Rome's six Pontifical universities. The Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum is run by the Legionnaires of...
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Czech pledge of £34 million 'not enough' for sector
State universities in the Czech Republic are to get a cash boost of Kcs1.9 billion (£34 million) to help increase undergraduate admissions by 10,000 and pay off debts. The money will help bring...