GI Bill spirit revived to woo Iraq vets
In this mid-term election year, politicians are currying favour by giving US soldiers from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars free tuition. Jon Marcus reports Sixty years after the GI Bill provided free...
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Big debt fears deter Aussies
Higher tuition fees and fears of incurring large debts could be deterring Australians from going to university. Figures from the Australian Vice-chancellors Committee last week show that the number...
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Proposal reignites the war of words
Debate over using Afrikaans, the 'language of the oppressor', on campus is raging, writes Karen MacGregor Thirty years after the student uprising in Soweto, South Africa's academics are hotly...
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Private sector responds to taste for Russian
There is still demand for university courses taught in Russian in Estonia, and a new private sector is developing despite efforts to marginalise the language at school level. Proposals to reform...
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Washington DC
Most Americans, 62 per cent, support the right of lecturers to express antiwar sentiments in classrooms, specifically on the Iraq War, according to a phone poll conducted for the American Association...
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Santiago
The University of Chile and the Catholic University of Chile are among 11 universities paralysed by student action in support of school students' demands for educational reform, including making...
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Athens
Greek universities are at a standstill as lecturers and students protest against a government plan to revise the constitution and end the state monopoly in university education. They also oppose...
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Conakry
The authorities at Guinea's national university are considering the option of closing it down after academic staff joined an indefinite general strike in support of an immediate 400 per cent pay rise.
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Kathmandu
At least 60 university lecturers who took part in a sit-in at the Education Ministry have been detained by Nepali police. The protesters are seeking the resignations of the vice-chancellor, the...
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Stem-cell hope as Italy pulls support for EU opposition
Fears that restrictions on European money for stem-cell research could continue into the Seventh Framework Programme are receding despite opposition to the technology from some MEPs. One restriction...
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We voted for action and results, not surrender
Union members' dismay over betrayal by their leaders is turning into resolve to return to battle, says Tom Hickey Before the latest twist in the university pay dispute, one disillusioned historian...
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Nancy Rothwell
"Ivory towers v corporate boardrooms" was the topic of an open discussion meeting with young scientists that I was involved in at last year's British Association Festival of Science in Dublin. The...
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Lie low to aim high
Roger Kline, former head of universities at lecturers' union Natfhe, may be rather pleased with his new role in the fledgling University and College Union, which many believe does not make best use...
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Hunt in the open season
Peep admires the UCU for divulging the e-mail addresses of its joint general secretaries, so members can go straight to the top with their concerns and compliments. But the move may have backfired -...
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Deterred by dim sums
A senior member of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service gave a candid account of why applications were marginally down this year. "It's the thick middle classes," she told a conference...