Refugees may plug skills gap
When Abdul Lalzad fled to the UK from Afghanistan in late 1998, he found himself living off income support despite being one of his country's foremost engineers. But thanks to a grant from the...
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UCL tops big 5 with £93m
£1,251 million for research Research funding up 8.3% in real terms on 04-05 £4,004 million for teaching Cash per student up 0.4% in real terms University College London...
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Elites stripped of access cash
Elite academic institutions recruiting bright students from poor areas have been hit by major budget cuts following changes to the way that teaching is funded in English universities. Fourteen...
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Green light for FE-run degrees
Further education colleges will be able to run and price degree courses without the consent of local universities under arrangements agreed by the Department for Education and Skills and the Quality...
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Sacked professor settles out of court
A senior academic who helped the Charity Commission investigate mismanagement at the European Business School has won an out-of-court payment to settle his claim that he was victimised after raising...
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Gates gift spurs US schools to update
Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, is spearheading a $42 million (£22 million) effort to overhaul America's high schools in response to criticism that they are not preparing students...
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Critical academic fights efforts to deport him
Lawyers representing Kenneth Good, the Australian academic who faces expulsion from Botswana after delivering a paper questioning its reputation as a democracy, this week began the process of...
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Campus revival across Africa
African political leaders' recognition of the role of universities in development is inspiring a new spirit of confidence, according to Akilagpa Sawyerr, the secretary-general of the Association of...
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Chief executive relents to state in battle for financial control
Rongo Wetere, the chief executive of one of New Zealand's Maori higher education institutions, or wananga , has backed down after a stand-off over financial control. When Trevor Mallard, the...
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Quotas to aid access in Brazil
Brazil is planning to overhaul its university system to make it more accessible while also tightening rules to make private institutions more accountable. The Ministry of Education's proposed reforms...
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Bari's forest of family trees
One office after another along a corridor at the University of Bari has the same name on its door. The southern Italian university's economics faculty has nine academics with the surname Massari;...
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Degree reform vowed in Spain
The Spanish Government has laid the framework for a new degree structure and has earmarked €6.6 million (£4.5 million) this year for Bologna pilot projects and strategic planning. A royal decree...
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Russians evade mid-study draft
A Russian court has upheld an action by students fighting army conscription halfway through their university studies. The 13 students from Tula State University were called up by the draft board on...
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Final days of desperate man cast a dark shadow
Alastair Hay draws lessons for handling state and media from his friend's death amid the 'sexed-up' Iraq dossier debacle It is rare to see Tony Blair at a loss in public. But he really did appear...
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Nancy Rothwell
The first rule of standing in for the v-c is to expect the unexpected, and if you must sell off the university, get a good price Television seems to be increasingly occupied by reality programmes,...