Ottawa
Canadian foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy is leaving politics after years in elected office to take up an academic job as director of the new Liu Centre of International Affairs in British Columbia...
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San Raphael
South America's first telescope designed to respond to instructions from internet users will be placed in one of the world's optimal sites, near the Argentine town of San Raphael in Mendoza.
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Kosti
Two people died and several were injured in riots in White Nile state, Sudan, when students demonstrated against military conscription. Banks were burnt, the television station attacked and...
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Sacking of fiery US coach sparks riots
The firing of Indiana University's basketball coach has provided fresh evidence that university athletics in the United States has an almost religious status. Bob Knight was sacked after allegedly...
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Northumbria staff balloted over job threat
Staff at Northumbria University are to be balloted for industrial action over the threat of about 140 job cuts. A spokesman for lecturers' union Natfhe said there were fears of compulsory...
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Cambridge University
An article in The THES (September 22, page 18) by Paul Surtees on the lack of female firsts at Cambridge University should have referred to students with high grades at S levels gaining first-class...
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Don's Diary
January Finish writing a political biography of Nobel prizewinner Dario Fo and decide to translate his play Mum's Marijuana Is the Best. It has never been performed in English before. This is my...
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Royal smiles
(Photograph) - Royal smiles: staff, students and graduates from Queen Margaret University College process down Edinburgh's Royal Mile to St Giles Cathedral for a celebratory service marking the...
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Blackstone rules out top-up fees
Differential tuition fees were ruled out for the foreseeable future by the higher education minister, Tessa Blackstone, speaking at the Labour Party conference this week. She also hinted that...
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V-cs' list nears completion
Vice-chancellors are getting down to the fine details in their fundamental review of funding for universities, writes Alan Thomson. Draft models of a number of options are almost complete, but...
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Fears that institutions may not fill places
* More people have been accepted by universities this year, but fears that institutions may not be able to fill places remain. The latest figures show that, as of Wednesday, there were 332,400...
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NI committee split over Cubie proposals
* A key Northern Ireland assembly committee is split over how far the Cubie committee's proposals for student finance should apply in the province. The higher and further education, training and...
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Assembly orders review of Welsh sector
Tuition fees, research diversity and the potential for institutional merger are among the subjects to be covered in a major review of higher education in Wales ordered by the Welsh Assembly. While...
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FE shows improved retention and success
A growing proportion of further education students are staying on courses and passing exams, new figures show. Retention rates in further education and sixth-form colleges have risen slightly from...
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A home for the study of technology's impact
The government is to open a research centre to look at technology impact's on society, initially focusing on the link between technology skills and employment and access issues. The institute is one...