Final-year US pupils learn little, panel says
American students drift through their final year of high-school wasting time and learning little, according to a national report. "By the time many high school students get to their senior year they...
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Lecturer fired for nepotism claims
Senior history lecturer Robert Shell has been fired after a dispute with South Africa's Rhodes University. Dr Shell, director of the population research unit at the university's East London campus,...
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V-cs plead for help to combat crisis
Leaders of Africa's universities are calling for a conference of heads of governments and donors to address the problems of higher education in the continent. The vice-chancellors want the...
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Making money into art
An installation by media artist Matt Rogalwsky is attracting the eyes and ears of financial experts and students at the Judge Institute of Management Studies in Cambridge. "The Smell of Money"...
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First aid offered to ailing theses
An internet discussion group is helping students to deal with their languishing dissertations. The Dead Thesis Society offers online support for those who find themselves among the 50 per cent of...
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New media hit by graduate shortfall
New media firms are suffering from a shortage of graduates in spite of fears that the industry is collapsing, according to a lecturer at City University. Neil Thurman, electronic publishing course...
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£100m deal to fund spin-offs
Four universities have struck a deal with a £100 million investment fund that will help them to spin off technology companies. Bristol and Southampton universities, together with University College...
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Seeing the light
The British Library has released a CD-Rom of The Lindisfarne Gospels that allows a reader to 'turn' the onscreen pages in real time and to enjoy greater detail. The library has used the technology to...
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Wealthy Scots are short on admirers
Business is booming for Scotland's young entrepreneurs, according to experts at Strathclyde University. But the whizzkids should beware the resentment of fellow Scots, who love a trier but disapprove...
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Search for the roots of Caribbean sex divide
The University of the West Indies is asking why men are turning their backs on study. Marlene Hamilton reports. Women have outnumbered men in British universities for several years and are now...
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Diversity or lingua franca for Europe?
Four out of five people questioned in a straw poll carried out by David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor, do not believe that diversity in languages is...
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Offensive 'spam' plagues colleges
Britain's universities are being targeted by computer junk mailers known as "spammers" who trade on the good reputations of academic institutions to peddle porn. The problem is reaching epidemic...
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Latest international news
Rector charged with fraud The rector of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been charged with breach of public official duties, mishandling of public money and fraud after the...
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Latest UK news
NUS rejects top-up option The National Union of Students is dismayed that vice-chancellors are considering top-up fees as a possible income stream for higher education. The NUS said that higher fees...
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From today's UK papers
GUARDIAN Chancellor Gordon Brown and development minister Clare Short will announce plans on Monday for a multibillion-pound international fund to provide cheap vaccines against childhood diseases to...