A white knight with means to find holy grail
David Norwood, a 36-year-old chess grandmaster, made the best move of his life when he ditched the day job and decided to make his fortune exploiting academic intellectual property. This may not...
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Blair calls on the West to pledge $8bn to Africa
Tony Blair's Commission for Africa has delivered a multibillion-dollar bill to the industrialised nations to help revitalise Africa's universities. This aspect of the commission report on...
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'Guinea pigs' must gain from research, Wellcome says
Scientific research carried out in the developing world must provide lasting health benefits to host countries, according to guidance issued by the Wellcome Trust this week, writes Caroline Davis....
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Scots get above-inflation rise
The UHI Millennium Institute, which hopes to become a university in 2007, has topped this year's Scottish funding allocations for higher education with a cash increase of 5 per cent. This is the...
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Tomlinson reforms are 'still to play for'
The Tomlinson reforms to integrate vocational and academic school qualifications could be resurrected after the general election, according to the chair of the influential House of Commons Education...
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Business cashes in on SAT relaunch
A major revamp of the pre-eminent US university admission exam is not only fuelling students' anxiety but creating a lucrative industry that markets everything from test-preparation CDs to software...
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China caps fee in nod to roots
The Beijing Municipal Government has capped tuition fees in the capital to ensure that higher education remains accessible to poor students, writes Michael Delaney in Beijing. Most of the capital's...
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Poor not put off by rise in costs
A decade of tuition fee increases has not deterred poor Canadian students from going to university, a report suggests. Just under a fifth of 18-to-24-year-olds from low-income families - those...
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Hackers fail ethics entry test
Some applicants to top US business schools have been barred after hacking into the institutions' computers, writes Jon Marcus. The 200 or so applicants hacked into a software program that allowed...
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Australia proposes scrapping research mandate
The Australian Government is proposing to award the university title to institutions that neither undertake research nor award research degrees. Brendan Nelson, the Education Minister, last week...
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Mob rule defied by rector
The rector of the University of Palermo in Sicily has announced plans to abolish tuition fees for students whose families have to pay protection to the Cosa Nostra - in effect a public challenge to...
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Swedes could lose vacation
Swedish MPs are studying a report that stresses the benefits of a longer academic year and summer teaching, which could cut six months off a three-year degree course. The report from the National...
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Foreign languages disdained in Spain
British students are not alone in finding languages a turn-off. Most Spanish students have a barely adequate command of a foreign language and just over one in three takes advantage of his or her...
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Admit it, George Dubya's medicine is not all bad
The policies of the US President draw on academic ideas, so just watch who you call stupid, says Niall Ferguson In Europe and American universities alike, George W. Bush has a very large number of...
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'Alison Wolf'
...The whole affair had passed them by' It is more important to tackle the lack of students in core subjects than to create an over-arching school diploma Last October, the government-appointed...