The motto of the University of Chicago is Crescat scientia; vita excolatur : "Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched." The cerebral private university lives up to this...
Proposed legislation meant to make things easier for US universities and staff affected by Hurricane Katrina has created opportunities for profit-making proprietary schools. Senate Bill 1715 removes...
New Zealand's universities are aiming to differentiate themselves clearly from the country's polytechnics, writes Richard Thomson in Wellington. The universities hope discussions with the Government...
The European Commission's idea of creating a European Institute of Technology (EIT) to rival the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has sparked hostility and scepticism among universities....
France's universities must attract better-qualified foreign students if they are to meet research and development objectives, according to the state planning commission, the Commissariat du Plan. The...
The Canadian Government is to skirt the provinces' educational power by giving money directly to tens of thousands of post-secondary students, cutting the cost of attending university. Belinda...
European Union membership talks with Turkey will lead to a major overhaul of the way the country’s universities are run, according to Hüseyin Çelik, the Education Minister. Yok, the higher education...
An increased package of financial aid for part-timers will bring benefits for students and institutions, Bill Rammell writes This week, I announced the funding arrangements for part-time...
Feeling imposed upon is worse than having too much work. Don't be a martyr to jobs you detest - delegate that admin Last week I was told by a colleague that I should feel stressed. So I'm working on...
America's gift to the world when it comes to exams is the multiple-choice test, observed Barry McGaw of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development at a conference in Cambridge this...
At the same conference, Baroness Onora O'Neill, principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, also had the issue of nationhood and ethnicity in her sights. But her ire was reserved for forms and paperwork...
Only four months to go before we know who gets the top job. No, not the Tories - even they can't drag it out that long. This is the successor to Sir Howard Newby as chief executive of the Higher...
Aberdeen University may have slightly ruffled the feathers of its sister institutions with a leafleting campaign across the country claiming it is "far beyond St Andrews, well above Edinburgh, ahead...
Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella of Canada's Supreme Court revealed in this year's annual lecture at the UHI Millennium Institute that when she first visited Belfast she was assigned two bodyguards....
"It's not all about reading a recipe: both the cook and the scientist need to try new ideas and experiment" THE FAT DUCK, BRAY, Berkshire It began with a vacuum flask of boiling liquid nitrogen at -...