Doha
A $9 million (£4.9 million) teaching hospital is to be built over the next four years in Qatar's "Education City" - a cluster of educational and research facilities. The Qatar Foundation announced an...
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Prague
Charles University student Michal Bobek will be the first Jenkins Scholar at Oxford University, studying for the Bachelor of civil law in 2004-06. The award was founded as a memorial to the late Roy...
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Cotonou
King Mohammed VI of Morocco was prevented from opening a student hostel named after him at the National University of Benin by demonstrating students who claimed the CFA380 million (£390,000) given...
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Brazilia
The Brazilian Order of Lawyers has called for an investigation into the growth of virtual universities offering law courses by moonlighting professors. It fears the proliferation of online courses is...
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Italian medics charged with exam rigging
Five senior Italian cardiologists and medical school teachers have been arrested for allegedly rigging competitive exams for the assignment of university teaching posts. Those under house arrest on...
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Kerry vows state sector boost
US presidential candidate John F. Kerry is to campaign on vastly increased federal support for public universities, whose state funding has declined dramatically. The $10 billion (£5.5 billion)...
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Islam majority shocked at headscarves ruling
Opponents of restrictions on religious dress in Turkish universities are to continue their opposition despite last week's European Court of Human Rights ruling that Turkey has the right to enforce a...
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Australian v-cs in pre-election call for more cash and thousands more places
Australia's vice-chancellors have called for a massive increase in federal funding of public universities and the creation of thousands more student places. With Prime Minister John Howard expected...
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Canadians fall on hard times
Rising numbers of Canadian students are resorting to food banks because they are being squeezed by climbing tuition fees and a shortfall in loan cash, a survey suggests. Fifty-one of the country's...
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Lack of financial aid threatens equity goal
Shortfalls in student aid are threatening the South African Government's equity and access goals. Student support is failing to keep up with growing demand for higher education as improving school...
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NZ's foreign students dissatisfied
Only one in three international students studying in New Zealand rates their education as good value for money, according to a report to the Ministry of Education. The findings were published as...
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We now have to build on our strong foundations
Foundation degrees have been in existence for only three years and yet they are already changing the landscape of higher education. Some 25,000 students are enrolled on about 800 courses at 100...
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Russell Group hug
The much-vaunted collaboration between Scottish higher education institutions was touchingly evident at last week's UK Bologna seminar, which included a ceilidh at Edinburgh Castle. Scotland's three...
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Blue-skies research
Forget cheap flights to Majorca, Oxbridge dons fed up with sitting on hot trains or in jams on the M25 have taken to chartering light planes between Cambridge and Oxford. James Dillion-Godfray,...
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Pillinger a true galáctico?
Space scientist Colin Pillinger is academia's answer to David Beckham, according to David Southall, director of science programmes at the European Space Agency. Having given Professor Pillinger a bit...