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The marketing director for the University for Industry demonstrated refreshing honesty when challenged over the title of his organisation by university administrators at their conference last week. "...
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Eyewitness: Lifeline for South Asia's child labourers
Nepal's carpet industry has been a lucrative source of foreign earnings for one of the world's poorest countries, but its reliance on child labour has been heavily criticised. Children toil for hours...
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Paris
The director of the Ecole Centrale Paris, whose reappointment was blocked by former education minister Claude Allegre, has got his old job back. Daniel Gourisse has been head of the engineering...
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Lagos
The vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos has resigned over his failure to secure senate approval for a Nigerian satellite centre at the University of Seoul, South Korea, and to supply detailed...
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Gualeguaychú
The Higher Institute of Art in Gualeguaychu is offering Argentina's first diploma in carnival studies. The five-year course requires would-be carnival specialists to attend lectures on the history of...
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Astana
At least 120 Kazak students at religious colleges in Islamic countries are defying orders from Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev to return home. The order went out in September, triggered by...
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Washington DC
Only 39 per cent of the 172 Roman Catholic colleges in the United States have drawn up plans to cope with the shrinking population of nuns and priests, according to a survey by the Association of...
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Cotonou
The Saudi Arabian-based Islamic Development Bank has given $70,000 (£48,400) to the University of Benin as part of a technical agreement aimed at improving its infrastructure. Most of the money will...
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World view: Numbers are irresistible
Women are overtaking men in universities, and some men are worried, writes Sheldon Rothblatt Over its 800 years, university history contains startling continuities. While much of the medieval or...
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Campus overhaul as Taiwan loosens state strings
Taiwan's first free elections and the appointment of a new education minister in May have speeded up reform of the country's higher education system. Even before the change of government, the country...
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Colleges urged to give men a break
The proportion of male undergraduates at American universities has fallen to 45 per cent, prompting calls for special help - including waivers of admission standards - to increase numbers in the same...
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New Zealand spends £1.6m to ward off loan debacle
The New Zealand government is to spend an extra NZ$6 million (£1.6 million) on the processing of student loans and allowances in a bid to avoid the debacle that dogged university and polytechnic...
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Scanner fingers students
Thai masters students are giving the thumbs-down to lectures before they even begin, thanks to the introduction of fingerprint scanners. Thai universities are much stricter than British ones when it...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Most of the new science centres, funded by the National Lottery through the Millennium Commission, are beating their attendance targets. David Pilling writes that this week's High...
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Atheist attacks church attitude
One of Italy's most eminent philosophers, Paolo Flores d'Arcais, has jumped into the controversy over the attitude of the Catholic church to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants. Professor...