Iraq closures on the cards
A national commission to guide the long-term reconstruction of Iraq's shattered higher education system, proposed this week by the United Nations University, may lead to the closure of institutions...
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Riot police summoned in Colombia to quell funding-quota protests
A decision by the Colombian Government to introduce competitive funding for the country's 33 state universities triggered demonstrations earlier this month. In Bogotá, more than 9,000 students...
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Thai students forced to get a loan for 'fast-food' education
Thai university students face increased fees as the Government's focus on free schools means there is little cash left for tertiary expansion. About 22 per cent of the national budget is spent on...
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Dissident is still teaching
The University of Botswana political scientist who was declared a prohibited immigrant in February after co-authoring a paper critical of his adopted country's democracy has yet to be deported and is...
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Jerusalem
The presidents of Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities this week immediately began planning personal appeals to British lecturers to work against the Association of University Teachers' boycott of Israeli...
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Moscow
Moscow's Higher School of Economics is cracking down on plagiarism with a code of conduct that allows it to expel students caught copying.
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Abidjan
Nigeria's Urban Development Bank has secured a $100 million (£52.4 million) loan to build private hostel accommodation at 25 federal universities in an attempt to end a housing crisis facing some 70...
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Austin
Norman Mailer, the Pulitzer prize-winning author, has sold his archive of manuscripts and books to the University of Texas for $2.5 million (£1.3 million).
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World listings for repression
Scholars at Risk, a US-based network of universities, is to investigate creating an index for academic freedom that may rank countries according to the threats and restrictions their academics face....
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Get the facts, then act to halt discrimination
Institutions have a legal duty to promote racial equality, which makes monitoring essential. Joyce Hill offers some advice There has always been a strong sense that our universities and colleges are...
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Nancy Rothwell
Bring back the personal touch. Courses are all very well, but they can't replace 'apprenticeship' with a senior colleague We seem to be inundated with new courses; courses for PhD students seem de...
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It would be a crime not to
There was an unexpectedly candid reaction from Tory campaign HQ to The Times Higher 's poll of students' voting intentions. The poll reveals that although the Tories languish in third place for the...
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Making do with Blair
There were grumbles of discontent from one well-connected vice-chancellor about lack of access to Ruth Kelly in the early weeks of her spell as Education Secretary. He told The Times Higher that he...
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We're not if you are
The description of Sunderland University by the former Education Secretary Estelle Morris as the "Oxbridge of new universities" has left others cold. Coming shortly after her appointment as pro vice-...
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The oldest new university?
There is nothing wrong with being proud of your roots, but academics at Sheffield Hallam University may be surprised to learn that the university was "founded in 1843", according to the blurb in a...