Recruiting body in crisis
Australia's main foreign-student recruiting company, already in financial turmoil, has been hit by the resignations of its chief executive and the chairman of its governing board and the loss of a...
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US slack as Swiss profit
A rise in the number of foreign students enrolling at Swiss universities could in part be due to tightened visa restrictions in the US. Seventeen per cent of the student body in Switzerland is made...
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RAE policy gets rethink
New Zealand's universities have won a battle to prevent state-sanctioned comparisons of research quality with the UK. A report says the level of hostility from universities towards institutional...
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Landless learn to fight ignorance and bankers
Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST) has opened a university in São Paulo state to train its members. The Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes, in Guararema, offers classes up to tertiary level...
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Stockholm science student charged over very bad coffee
A Stockholm University student has been charged over a spate of attacks on university premises and personnel over the past year. The 25-year-old man is suspected of poisoning coffee in a vending...
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Summers storm still raging at Harvard
The uproar following Harvard University's president Lawrence Summers' comment at an academic conference that "issues of intrinsic aptitude" may account for the fact that fewer women than men succeed...
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Probe into finances
Suspect investment deals and financial mismanagement at a Czech university that have cost nearly £1 million are under investigation after a spate of complaints about halls of residence and a faculty...
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Far-right professor excluded
Bruno Gollnisch, second in command of France's extreme-right Front National, has been suspended again from the University of Jean Moulin Lyon-3, writes Jane Marshall in Paris. Professor Gollnisch had...
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Did A-level reforms fall victim to election fever?
David Melville, a member of the Tomlinson Group, mourns a lost opportunity for radical change The Government's long-awaited White Paper on the comprehensive package of reforms proposed by Mike...
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Making a crisis out of a drama
Natfhe, the lecturers' union, brought out the big guns this week on another pressing higher education issue. Just as Tony Blair once bizarrely championed the campaign for Coronation Street's Deirdre...
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Truly nano approach to science
Predictably, a hefty proportion of delegates at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Washington last week were male and middle-aged and were sporting a glamorous...
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Rebel becomes a cause
Voting against the party line may not seem to be the best way to win friends and influence the Labour leadership, but it does not appear to have harmed top-up fees rebel Ian Gibson. Dr Gibson,...
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Campaigned group
Rumour has it that Save British Science is changing its name to something a little less moany. But will a campaign group called Saved British Science have quite the same impact?
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Ronald Hutton: review
King Arthur has had a good year. With Jerry Bruckheimer's Hollywood blockbuster last summer and this week's television documentary by Michael Wood, his story has been subjected to renewed public...
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Why I no longer worry about side-plate food
It is five years since the fight against passive eating began way back in 2005. With the conquest of the cigarette well in hand in the late Nineties, American health reformers' attention turned to...