Students appeal to save Malaysian hall
The Malaysian government will decide this month on the fate of Malaysia Hall in Bryanston Square, London, when the leasehold expires. It is the meeting and transit point for Malaysian students...
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Puttnam urges HE and industry cooperation
(Photograph) - Universities and industry need to work closer together to ensure that the country's brightest talent does not move abroad, according to Lord Puttnam, chairman of Enigma Productions and...
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Ulster's course aims to boost business
Ulster University is introducing an integral course in entrepreneurship that it hopes will boost the number of small and medium-sized businesses in the province. From September, students taking...
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Strike over cuts to holiday called off
Lecturers at Northumbria University have called off their threat of industrial action after university management agreed to reinstate their Easter vacation period to three weeks from two. Members of...
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Dundee bids to attract non-Scots students
Dundee University is marketing three-year honours degrees in its new prospectus in a bid to combat a downturn in British entrants from outside Scotland, and to attract high-flying Scottish pupils who...
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Funding chiefs look at employability indicator
Funding chiefs - under pressure from education secretary David Blunkett to produce an indicator of graduate employability - are leaning towards a complex definition of it. "To have any validity,...
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Overhaul of support scheme considered
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, is consulting on an overhaul of Scotland's unique postgraduate student allowances scheme to make funds available to more...
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Newcastle arrives home-from-home
Six students from Newcastle University have completed a 50,000km overland expedition to Newcastle, Australia. The Newcastle2Newcastle group started its journey last April and travelled to Australia...
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Eye witness
Kamisese Mara, Fiji's president, has sought an injunction to stop the sale of a biography of Major General Sitiveni Rabuka, leader of the 1987 military coups. In Rabuka of Fiji, Rabuka, a former...
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Florence
Students at the University of Florence have complained that their university's continuing failure to pay its debts to commercial suppliers is dragging its name into disrepute. A student union...
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Melbourne
The first Unesco chair in cultural heritage studies in the Asia Pacific region has been created at Deakin University in Melbourne. A new centre will cooperate with universities in three Indochinese...
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Sources for research funding
EUROPEAN COMMISSION - ENVIRONMENT DG Community cooperation against marine pollution The scope of this call for proposals is to identify actions which might be eligible for financial support from DG...
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Distance learning
(Photograph) - Celebrity stargazer Patrick Moore opened the University of Hertfordshire's upgraded observatory at Bayfordbury this week. The university claims it is the UK's best-equipped...
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Rip it up and start again
There is hope that Vladimir Putin will turn around years of decline in Russian education, writes Pieta Monks. Along the road leading to Moscow from the international airport, young, well-dressed,...
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Barred professor to face disciplinary action
A social anthropology professor has been suspended from the University of Natal and banned from campus following bitter disputes with her colleagues and dean. Claims of racism made against Caroline...