Bush targets campus fan base as JFK gains votes
University Republicans have chosen not to join traditional non-partisan student voter recruiting drives leading up to the American presidential election because of Democrat John Kerry's lead over...
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Incentive pay plan
The state of Hamburg is planning to introduce performance-related pay for its university professors as part of reforms that could also include student tuition fees. The new system will run alongside...
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College closure row
Irish Education Minister Noel Dempsey is in hot water over a decision to close a training college for home economics teachers in Dublin and transfer its course to Sligo, on the west coast. Documents...
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Rector's job to fill
Plans to turn Luxembourg University into a European centre of research excellence have taken a back seat as the institution seeks to find a successor to its French-Canadian rector, who died of a...
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Murder of lecturers threatens Iraqi academia
A university lecturer in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has been shot and killed by gunmen who ambushed her car as she was driving to work. Police said there appeared to be no motive for the attack...
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Study: BAs and babies don't mix
Better educated Australian women have fewer children than those with no post-school qualifications, researchers have found. Going to university also reduces a woman's likelihood of marriage, they say...
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Brussels
The European Commission has announced a grant of €93 million (£63 million) towards an upgrade of the European Research and Education Internet, a communications network for research and education. It...
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Naples
Italy's Confederation of Students has claimed that university spending on competitive student recruitment advertising has increased by 45 per cent over the past year and said the money should be...
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Paris
Over the next year, between 15,000 and 30,000 French students are expected to take up an offer to buy a personal computer over three years for the cost of a daily cup of coffee, equivalent to 10 to...
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Grantham
Commonwealth education ministers have signed a protocol aimed at protecting education systems in developing countries from the harm done by developed nations' recruitment of teachers.
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Brussels
The European Commission is to spend €9 million (£6 million) from the Erasmus Mundus programme on building academic links with China. It will finance scholarships for Chinese students studying in the...
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Correction
Queensland's Bond University is no longer in Japanese ownership, as reported in The Times Higher (August 20), but is operated by Bond University Limited, a not-for-profit company, limited by...
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Research hit as Swedes feel market pinch
Swedish universities are more than 800 million kronor (£60 million) in the red after the first six months of the year, according to the Hogskoleverket, the national agency for higher education. The...
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Tories will take scissors to nightmare red tape
Shadow education secretary Tim Collins says his plans would cut debt for students and release cash for universities. All political parties and newspapers accept that UK universities, challenged by...
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Gary Day
The sinister Clarke had set Lecturer on the road to Vanity Fair armed only with a scroll called the 'White Paper'. But many obstacles lay ahead... As I walked through the wilderness of higher...