Santiago
Chilean education minister Mariana Aylwin has told striking students at the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences that they will be moved to other universities if they do not return to...
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Beijing
Chinese universities are being encouraged to forge closer links with African institutions. Ten have already established relationships with 20 establishments in 16 African countries. African students...
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Ankara
Turkish president Ahmet Necdet Sezer has attacked the powers of the country's higher education authority, Yok. Speaking at the opening ceremony of Ankara University, he said the authority's sole duty...
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World View: Imagine living on $1 a day
Global crisis is too close to home to be ignored. Dorothy Zinberg joined in the search for solutions The statistics of global poverty are mind-numbing: more than 1 billion people do not have access...
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Lang to confront student failure
France's education minister Jack Lang is seeking to improve the success rate of the first-level general university diploma. Fewer than four out of ten students who take the diploma pass in the set...
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Cned, France's national distance-learning centre
An agreement to develop distance learning in higher education was signed last week between Cned, France's national distance-learning centre, and the heads of the associations representing university...
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Plot to pinpoint Potter
This might worry the Ministry of Magic, but muggle - Harry Potter speak for non-wizards - academics in Hanover, Germany, are planning to research the secrets of Harry Potter. A seminar starting this...
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Pristina struggles to get back on its feet
The man charged with revitalising the University of Pristina, the earliest victim of Slobodan Milosevic's nationalist ambition, this week continued his campaign to put it back on the map. Michael...
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Shame caves in to pride
The university at Matera has become a symbol of the cultural and economic rebirth of a city that in 1952 was called "a national shame" by the country's then prime minister. In 1993...
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Labour is accused of top-up plan
Conservatives suspect that a secret government plan to allow higher university tuition fees is behind the delay in announcing higher education money for year three of its spending review. Shadow...
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NI budget allocation to increase by 6%
Sean Farren, Northern Ireland's minister for higher and further education, training and employment, has announced that his department's spending will rise by 5.9 per cent next year to £543....
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University tends train crash survivors
Uninjured survivors from the Hertfordshire train crash were ferried to the University of Hertfordshire's conference centre this week, where university staff looked after them while they recovered....
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Bretton Hall merger is still on
The University of Leeds this week denied rumours that plans to merge with nearby Bretton Hall College in Wakefield have collapsed. The merger is still scheduled to go ahead pending the outcome of a...
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First for musician blowin' in the wind
Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Larry Adler inspired the first person in Britain to collect a degree for harmonica playing. Steve Lockwood, 33, who gained a 2:1 at Anglia Polytechnic, is now...
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King's arms are wide open
King's College, Cambridge, is the university's most socially inclusive. It takes almost 80 per cent of its students from state schools. The university's first "league table" of...