Fears over threat to autonomy of Russian academy
The Russian Academy of Sciences is facing one of its biggest challenges ever as President Vladimir Putin moves to bring it under stricter state control. Under reforms approved by President Putin's...
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Partial grading system change
Leading Swedish universities are ditching the traditional three-scale grading system in favour of the European credit transfer scheme (Ects), despite its parliament's decision not to make it law....
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Canada scholarships face uncertain future
Treasury review poses threat to Commonwealth bursary schemes, write Philip Fine and David Jobbins Canada has put a flagship Commonwealth scholarship scheme on hold only months before ministers are...
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Sit-in ends as strife shifts
Students at the National University of Comahue, the biggest state university in Patagonia, Argentina, have ended a three-month sit-in that had paralysed the institution. But a second Argentinian...
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Recruiting merger fuels competition
An online employment and training company with offshoots in the UK and New Zealand has bought a half share in Australia's biggest recruiter of foreign students. Seek Limited this week paid A$36...
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Tax credits favour wealthy students
Seven years after the US Government began allowing federal tax deductions to offset the cost of university tuition, the deductions have been found to benefit wealthy families, according to the first...
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Pass for soldiers
An Israeli higher-education college will offer students called up for the war in Lebanon a pass grade to compensate them for the classes they have missed. The Technion Institute of Technology in...
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Market forces will spell the end of invincibility
It is only a matter of time before a British university goes to the wall, predicts Terence Kealey The introduction of significant top-up fees marks the emergence of a market in British higher...
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It's only rock'n'roll...
Forget top-up fees. Over dinner at the Universities UK conference last week some university heads were preoccupied with a more weighty issue - the scrabble for the mantle of coolest vice-chancellor....
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Ties that bind
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson, the generally unkempt Shadow Higher Education Minister, and Drummond Bone, UUK president, had decided to dress the same. Both were proudly sporting the Liverpool City of...
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RAEson to be fearful
UUK had clearly ruffled feathers by appointing Eric Thomas,Jone of the most booming opponents of the research assessment exercise, to the chair of its research strategy group. Although Professor...
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Running commentary
Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell was seen to crumple up his speech during dinner, no doubt alarming advisers. But when he stood up he was right on message - UUK's message, that is. He told vice...
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Gary Day: Indiana Jones and phoney pharaohs whip up cash
AN EGYPTIAN FANTASIA Fundraising event to rehouse University College London's Petrie Museum of Egyptology, September 16 We live in hard times. Is there no institution that doesn't have to think about...
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Churchill, Kennedy, Carter, now Blair?
Glen Rangwala, James Panton and Paul Whiteley consider the wisdom of the supposedly mooted Tony Blair School of Government GLEN RANGWALA is a lecturer in politics at Cambridge University What...
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Long and tortuous goodbye to Stud Muffin No 1
Cats and Rentokil have it easy. Biomedical researchers, however, suffer greatly when they have to kill mice in the lab As a biomedical researcher I am afflicted with a serious problem. It's a...