St John's
Newfoundland's Supreme Court has overturned a C$839,400 (£355,000) award for negligence against the Memorial University of Newfoundland imposed after an academic overlooked a footnote in a thesis and...
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Canberra
IDP Australia, the overseas student recruitment agency, has confirmed it is to close seven of its 90 overseas office before Christmas and shed 30 out of 120 jobs in Canberra and Sydney.
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Washington DC
US Immigration and Customs has agreed to accept international students' visa fees in the applicant's currency. Since September, payment has had to be made with a US credit or debit card, or by cheque...
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Singapore
A three-year tuition-fee freeze at the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University will end this August when fees will increase by almost 5 per cent.
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Bamako
One student was killed and several wounded in a clash over student union election results at the University of Bamako, in Mali.
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Washington DC
George W. Bush has nominated former Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt as Secretary of Health and Human Services. When confirmed by the Senate, Mr Leavitt's portfolio will include the National...
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Freedom via education is not a flight of fancy
The British Council can help attract foreign students to the UK and boost learning worldwide, says Neil Kinnock Education has long been at the core of everything that the British Council seeks to...
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Alison Wolf
What's on the sector's Christmas list this year? Peace, goodwill, achievable targets and an overseas scandal This time of year makes me feel seriously inadequate. Cards arrive in November from...
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Reunited: just the business
Victor Bellanti, chief executive of Norman Hay plc, returns to Nottingham Trent University, where he studied in the 1980s Coming back to Nottingham Trent University doesn't seem such a huge step -...
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E-rrors included
Despite The Times Higher' s report last month of the burgeoning trade in dissertations for sale to students on internet auction site eBay, some sellers are getting rather complacent. "Have you been...
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Vexatious, moi?
As universities prepare to open their secret files under the Freedom of Information Act in the new year, there has been some discussion about how to prevent pesky journalists getting their hands on...
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Follow my former leader
How do you ensure that Education Secretary Charles Clarke turns up to your function and does what he's told? The British Council had the answer last week. The council invited its new chairman Neil...
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Shortcut to E=mc Square
Stuck in traffic and wondering what to talk to your taxi driver about? Forget the latest love saga of David Blunkett, apparently the thing to discuss with your cabbie is physics. Sir Michael Berry, a...
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Why I believe our student bursaries will help keep Oxford open to all
It is nothing new for a vice-chancellor to declare that his or her institution is "world class". So you will not be surprised that I consider maintaining this status crucial to Oxford University's...
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Academic witch-hunt or a digital defence? 1
Does the monitoring of left-wing Israeli scholars help or hinder democracy? Neve Gordon sees danger, Steven Plaut a watchdog A new spectre is haunting the far-left fever swamps that fester in certain...