Europe recruits UK trio
Three prominent UK-based academics have been appointed to help lead the new European Research Council, proposed as part of Framework 7, the next European research funding round. Sir Bob May,...
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Buckingham teams up with controversial school
Britain's only private university has signed a deal with a controversial Italian-based business school that should mean the number of students graduating with Buckingham University degrees will...
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RAE 2008: Support for young staff will lift rating (arts and humanities)
Arts and humanities departments will need to demonstrate how they foster the careers of young academics in the 2008 research assessment exercise, writes Paul Hill. Panel chairs who will oversee the...
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RAE 2008: How to get a clean bill of health (life and medical sciences)
Contrary to fears in the science community, the size of a research team's grant cheques is unlikely to have a heavy impact on the outcome of its research rating in 2008, writes Anna Fazackerley....
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RAE 2008: Jury has designs on fruits of labour (physical sciences & engineering)
Applied research will receive much greater recognition among the panels for physical sciences and engineering in the 2008 research assessment exercise, writes Caroline Davis. Universities will be...
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RAE 2008: What will make a 2008 superstar? (social sciences)
How many social scientists will be good enough to qualify for the new superstar research ranking in the 2008 research assessment exercise? writes Anthea Lipsett. The question is still being asked by...
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Minsk
The Belarus Government has announced widespread closures of courses in the humanities and social sciences, mainly in private universities. It said the country had an oversupply of newly graduated...
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Paris
Five leading Paris-based higher education establishments are to share resources and co-ordinate their policies to increase their collective influence at home and abroad. The presidents of the...
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Rome
A 22-year-old mathematics student at Bologna University who was shot dead as he left an exam seems to have been the victim of a crime of passion. Riccardo Venier was hit five times. A man who had...
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Brussels
The European Commission's life sciences and biotechnology action plan includes an independent cost-benefit analysis of the "consequences, opportunities and challenges... of modern biotechnology" for...
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Masters tackles US fears
A US postgraduate programme in homeland security is to be launched to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York. So far, 70 students have applied for 25 places on...
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Austria worries that EU influx will limit access to courses
Austria's policy of accepting into higher education any home student with a basic high-school leaving certificate has come to an end after a European Court ruled that equal rights must be applied to...
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Student-staff ratio declines
The student-to-staff ratio in Australian universities has fallen for the first time in more than ten years. Brendan Nelson the Education Minister, has claimed the credit despite having cut federal...
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Contact details sold
Swedish student unions are protesting against universities and colleges selling students' personal information to recruitment agencies, unions, book clubs and marketing companies. Under Swedish law,...
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Japanese courts asked to step in to prevent closure
A small private university well away from Japan's centres of population has become the latest victim of the cut-throat competition for undergraduate students. Hagi International University,...