Don't mess with bull
The Quality Assurance Agency may not have realised the opposition it would meet when it proposed abolishing the distinctive MA title for Scottish undergraduate degrees. According to the papal bull...
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Divided nation
It is a country of two halves and new research proves it. Warwick professor Malcolm Tight has locationally matched 52 football clubs with universities, comparing football league positions at the end...
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Altogether now
First things first at the University of Michigan, which is to form part of the proposed new Scottish centre of engineering excellence at the redundant Rosyth naval base on the Firth of Forth....
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In the news
Terry Melia is a man on a mission to revitalise further education. Targeting sleaze and cronyism, the government-appointed further education troubleshooter has been the bane of under-achieving...
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On the move
Peter Clarke, professor of modern British history and fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, is to become master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He will replace Sir John Lyons when he retires next...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Durham has awarded honorary degrees to cabinet enforcer Mo Mowlam (DCL); Sir Martin Rees, astronomer royal (DSc); Ian Stephenson, artist (DLitt); and Audrey Warner (MSc). Peter...
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Eyewitness
Reunification of East and West Berlin was no easy task but reuniting the divided city's libraries has proved even more difficult. The Wall had made the Prussian National Library, sited alongside...
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World watch
A major reorganisation is planned for the 17 universities of Paris and the Ile-de-France over the next 15 years under the Universities of the Third Millennium programme. The universities cater for...
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World watch
The Malaysian government is worried that fewer Malays are studying science and maths than the country's Chinese and Indian populations. It is also concerned that most outstanding Malay science and...
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Anxiety over student ID system
Universities in the United States are worried about becoming an extension of the police as the implementation date of Cipris, the US immigration department's coordinated inter-agency partnership...
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World watch
The number of Australian universities operating at a loss was a cause for concern, Britain's Lord Dearing said last week. Attending his final meeting as a member of the University of Melbourne...
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World watch
Foreign language lecturers are serving notice on Italy's official negotiating agency in order to escape automatic representation by trade unions, which have resumed negotiations for their new...
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World watch
Kazakhstan is to have a space "presence" despite its repeated protests at environmental damage caused by Russian space launches and crashes at Baykonur cosmodrome. When the Soviet Union broke up,...
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Shanghai ups skills
Higher education is now open to all senior high-school graduates in Shanghai, China's economic and financial centre. More than 70 per cent were accepted by the city's institutes of higher learning....
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Albanians repeat food and lodging protest that once led to Kosovo war
Kosovar Albanian students, who only recently won their long battle for Albanian-taught courses within the official higher education system, are demonstrating once more - this time over hostel and...