Rome
The Italian bishops' conference has attacked the reform of Italy's state university system. In The Christian Community and the University, published by the conference's education commission, they say...
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Nairobi
Eight universities in East Africa have established a centre for human capacity-building to train high-level manpower for the universities. The centre, at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and...
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US women close the gap
Women students have caught up with or surpassed men in many areas of American higher education, according to an exhaustive government survey. The report by the US department of education shows that...
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University essential, parents believe
A university degree has taken on unprecedented importance for Americans, according to the most extensive public opinion survey ever conducted about views on higher education in the United States,...
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Burmese military vets new teachers
Military intelligence officers in Burma are conducting background checks on students signing up to become primary school teachers, say underground union leaders. They say the junta is so determined...
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Canadian liberal arts face up to a cash crisis
Small public liberal arts universities are becoming increasingly vulnerable in Canada, and the door may be opening for private universities to take their place. Ontario and New Brunswick have opened...
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Powerhouses of success need fuel as well as figures
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's latest figures (pages 6-7) put only Norway ahead of the United Kingdom in the proportion of the population getting degrees. By 1997 -...
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Games people play to stay in research race
A 66-year-old professor at a Midlands university is under orders not to retire until the research assessment exercise is complete. Without his books and papers, the research productivity of his...
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'Deplorable' university pay increase rejected
University lecturers this week rejected a "full and final" 3 per cent pay increase, an improvement on the 2.5 per cent originally offered, but still lower than the offers made to teachers in schools...
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Knight's job score 'favours mediocre'
Managers at the University of Central England have drawn up an unprecedented points system for deciding which staff to make redundant. Union leaders were outraged when five lecturers in the built...
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Cubie reply promotes equality
The Scottish Executive will next week unveil plans to get rid of the anomalies in student support between higher and further education. It will publish its long-awaited full response to the Cubie...
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Gap year gets blessing of v-cs
Vice-chancellors think that students should defer entry to university to take a well-structured year out. Most vice-chancellors believe that both individuals and their institutions benefit from their...
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Culture clash
(Photograph) - Students barricaded in Cairo's Al-Azhar University are demanding the resignation of Egypt's culture minister for approving republication of a novel that they say insults Islam. A...
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Vacancies at Unesco test merit promises
Unesco's selection process for four top-level posts, including head of its education directorate, is presenting director-general Koichiro Matsuura with a test of his election promises to modernise...
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Florence asks for students' opinions
At the end of the academic year, all 62,000 students at Florence University will hand in their reports on the functioning of the university, including an evaluation of the academics who teach them....