Anger at campus closure
A political storm has erupted in Northern Ireland over plans by Queen's University Belfast to close a campus not far from the border with the Irish Republic. The "outreach" campus in the province's...
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Call to consult
Policy-makers and vice-chancellors must heed academics' concerns before a teaching qualification for lecturers is introduced, union leaders have warned. A consultation paper published last week by...
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Publishers resist revolution
Journal publishers are battling to discredit the idea of free research results for all on the web after new research commissioned by the Wellcome Trust suggested that it was an economically viable...
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It's all music to downloaders' ears
Edinburgh University's Playfair library may lack the hardcore cachet of the usual music venue, but this did not stop Alex Kapranos, front man of band-of-the-moment Franz Ferdinand, putting in an...
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Standards fears hinder disability law take-up
Universities are failing to comply with disability discrimination laws 18 months after they came into force, a leading law firm said this week after it found 23 problem areas during an audit at the...
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Rome
Leading Israeli universities have signed an agreement with three Palestinian universities for joint projects in the fields of the environment, regional social and economic development and education....
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Pretoria
Kader Asmal, South Africa's education minister, was replaced in last week's post-election reshuffle after five years in charge of the education portfolio. His replacement is Naledi Pandor, 50, who...
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Parma
Italy's University of Taste has attracted 480 applications from 30 countries for one of 60 places in the 2004-05 academic year. The university, which will award a degree in gastronomy, is supported...
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Guatemala City
Oscar Berger, the Guatemalan president, has finally acknowledged the Guatemalan government's responsibility for the 1990 killing of Myrna Mack, an anthropologist who was stabbed times outside her...
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Bucharest
Romanian university employees have picketed parliament and political party headquarters after academic salaries were, in effect, doubled while university support staff received nothing.
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Luxembourg
The European Investment Bank has lent €40 million (£22.3 million) to Finland to build, rehabilitate, extend, furnish and equip about 100 buildings for higher education and research throughout the...
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Nairobi
Nairobi University has launched a three-month World Trade Organisation-sponsored regional trade course to allow East African officials to take a more effective role in international negotiations on...
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Libreville
The Gabonese cabinet has banned student unions on the campus of the Omar Bongo University. Opposition students who have refused to appear before a university disciplinary council may be taken to...
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Study exchanges to grow
The European Commission is considering a dramatic expansion of its flagship Erasmus Mundus student exchange programme weeks before the deadline for universities to submit bids to be selected for the...
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'Spend more,' says Busquin
The European Commission wants European Union member states to guarantee medium and long-term university funding and to spend more of their education budgets on higher education. It is also seeking an...