White man in an inuit land
Kenn Harper was a young teacher from a rural family in Newmarket, Ontario, when he decided to spend a couple of years in the far north of Canada. Thirty years on he is still there. "I'm now 55 and I'...
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Nine go to Cornwall for a touch of Inferno
Matthew Leigh, a classics tutor at St Anne's College, Oxford, took nine of his students to a house in Cornwall this summer to read Dante's Inferno. He is a firm believer in reading weeks. "It gets...
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The fine line between art and maths
Sir Roger Penrose is a mathematician, but he also has a talent for drawing. As an exhibition of his work opens, Justin Mullins reports on the scientist laying a claim to art When the Link Gallery at...
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Next week
NEWS Clearing: how was it for you? Features An Eskimo in New York: the anthropological study that led to tragedy Books The lesser-known side of Jorge Luis Borges - is his non-fiction as quirky and...
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Asuncion
Medical professors at Paraguay's Universidad Nacional de Asuncion have petitioned their rector for urgent funding to rectify poor facilities at the capital's teaching hospital.
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Kampala
An academic registrar at Makerere University in Uganda has been recommended for dismissal by an internal commission that found evidence that he enrolled unqualified students with forged certificates...
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Rio de Janeiro
A ministerial survey has revealed a 37.1 per cent dropout rate at Rio de Janeiro's 22 state and private university institutes. This results in an estimated annual loss to Brazil of $300 million.
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Medellin
Suspected leftwing rebels in Colombia have kidnapped 26 members of a university research team on a biology field trip. Professors and students from the National University were working on a wildlife...
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Face-to-face
(Photograph) - A sixth-former examines a skull at a summer archaeology workshop run by Bradford University as part of the National Excellence in Cities scheme to encourage students from deprived...
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Fringe benefits
(Photograph) - Drama students from Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, star in The Adding Machine by American writer Elmer Roth at this year's...
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Extra places pile on pressure
University resources will be stretched even further next year as institutions take in more students with poorer A-level grades. Lecturers will have to work harder to get larger numbers of students...
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Figures highlight class imbalance
The drive to widen participation is recovering from the blow it received in 1998, when tuition fees were introduced and maintenance grants were halved, to be abolished the next year. The recovery was...
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The nature of study favours the male
Men get more first-class degrees than women because the academic assessment system discriminates in favour of them, according to research published this week. Jane Mellonby and colleagues in the...
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Kent at Medway doubles enrolments
The University of Kent has established a Medway campus at the Mid-Kent College in Chatham. Mid-Kent College already delivers degree courses validated by the University of Kent. The number of...
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Sector refutes Ofsted's 'vacuous' degree gibe
Ofsted chief inspector Chris Woodhead (pictured) was criticised by vice-chancellors, lecturers' union leaders and graduate recruiters this week for rubbishing "vacuous" degrees such as media studies...