Afghans renew call for support
Afghanistan's five universities are beset with corruption, underfunding and poor living conditions, despite the international community's expressed intentions. In February, entrance exams taken by 40...
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US faculty ups pressure to curb presidential pay rises
A walkout by staff at the University of Hawaii over salary issues has been narrowly averted. It was the first time a faculty union and its supporters have made a major issue of administrators'...
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Rome
A court has ordered Ezio Capizzano, a former law professor at Camerino University, to pay the university damages of €120,000 (£80,000) after it was found in 2002 that he obtained sexual services from...
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N'djamena
Lecturers at N'djamena University in the capital city of Chad have begun strike action after not being paid for two months.
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Montreal
Nudists have opposed new residences at Vancouver's University of British Columbia for fear of peeping toms. The Wreck Beach Preservation Society warned that the possibility of students using high-...
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Minsk
Yury Bandazheuski, former rector of the Homiel Medical Institute in Belarus, jailed on charges of taking bribes for entrance exams, has failed to get a transfer to a more open prison. Campaigners...
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Copenhagen
Two professors of politics, Ole Waever of Copenhagen University and Nikolaj Petersen of Aarhus University, have urged the government to launch an inquiry into the basis for the Iraq war and Denmark's...
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Dakar
At least e100,000 has been earmarked by the Senegal-based Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie for higher education and scientific research in Africa.
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Leaer: Find a balance in foreign equation
This week's spate of reports on international issues in higher education is not only timely, but also provides a nicely balanced starting point for a debate that is likely to become increasingly...
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Let's refocus efforts on building brighter future
A partnership between state, society and universities is key to the development of South Africa, writes Derrick Swartz. On Monday, South Africa celebrates ten years of freedom - and the role of the...
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Gary Day
...Quite a lot, actually. For a start we still don't know if Becks was unfaithful' Scientists can easily prove their value to society, but humanities tutors have a tougher job to justify their...
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The diary
Sick of the RAE The Association of University Teachers has produced a crib sheet on a disease of the brain sweeping the nation's universities. Edited highlights are reproduced here. RAE disease -...
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My revolting past
Sir Graeme Davies recalls how his remote engineering faculty sparked a creative approach to entertainment. Sir Graeme Davies recently rediscovered a picture of the 1958 Auckland University students...
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Why I... believe academics should take a lead in the debate on multiculturalism
Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, earlier this month called for the abandonment of 40 years of multicultural policies in Britain. In this he is not alone. An all-party...
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Let's make it personal
The Sims computer game offers a blueprint for higher education, argues Charles Leadbeater. Personalisation could reshape public services as fundamentally as privatisation did in the 1980s....