NZ fees point to loan debt disaster
Just eight years after the New Zealand government introduced a flat-rate student contribution towards higher education costs, prices are soaring and some students will never repay their loans,...
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Birth-for-benefits myth
Researchers at the Policy Studies Institute have found no evidence to support the myth that teenagers become pregnant to get council housing or social security benefits. Isobel Allen, Shirley Bourke...
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Europe ages quickly..
A new data resource on population figures from 51 developing countries has been set up by David Coleman of the department of applied social studies, University of Oxford, as part of the Economic and...
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..as old age changes
Four researchers from Keele University's Centre of Social Gerontology have revisited Bethnal Green, Wolverhampton and Woodford to compare the experience of old age with that recorded in studies in...
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Indian epidemic study
Thirty-year-old data on maternal diet and weight may help fight India's diabetes and heart-disease epidemic. Scientists at the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit won a grant from the British Heart...
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V-cs tackle underhand enrolment tactics
The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee has toughened its code of ethical practice following allegations that some universities had used questionable tactics to boost their enrolments of overseas...
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Rector takes on Messina unguarded
Gaetano Silvestri, the new rettore magnifico of the University of Messina, has refused a personal bodyguard or bullet-proof car. "For the time being, I do not feel it is necessary. And I sincerely...
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Youth seek free, equal access to education
Student leaders from around the world used the platform of this month's United Nations World Youth Forum to argue for free and equal access to higher education. The forum brought 500 young people to...
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Staff lose jobs for selling exams
An examination scandal at the University of Natal in Durban has led to the firing of two administrative staff, investigations into 14 wealthy economics and management students and concerns over the...
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Serbs conscripting Hungarian students
Students from the Hungarian community in Serbia's Vojvodina province are being conscripted by the Serbs to fight the ethnic-Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army. Kosovo and Vojvodina, ethnic enclaves that...
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Julius Nyerere, the former president of Tanzania
(Photograph) - Signed up: Julius Nyerere, the former president of Tanzania, gives a speech accepting an honorary degree from the University of Ottawa at the opening of the Association of Commonwealth...
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Twin wins fight for a place
A woman who claimed she suffered psychological damage because she was not given a place at the same medical school as her identical twin sister has won a significant victory over the Dutch university...
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Ukraine works to reform its jailers' mindset
International experience in prison reform is helping make Ukrainian penal colonies more humane as the republic struggles to shake off Soviet-era systems. A pioneering partnership project between the...
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Estonia suffers from army fall-out
A CAMPAIGN by the Estonian army to recruit young men for a year's service between school and university has flopped. Nationwide, only three young men have so far volunteered. The plan was that...
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Civil servants look west
TRAINING local government officers may not seem like a mould-breaking revolutionary activity, but the Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration is leading the way in changing Ukraine education. It...