Harare
The Zimbabwean government has tripled loans and grants to university and polytechnic students, only four months after the last increase. The country last month recorded an annual inflation rate of...
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Bristol
The universities of Bergen, Oslo and Utrecht have joined the 13 existing members of the Worldwide Universities Network, a collaboration of research-led universities in Europe, the US and China. In...
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Lusaka
Zambian university lecturers are refusing to teach until pay increases awarded at professorial levels are extended to them. As the University of Zambia opened for the new academic year, university...
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Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Faculty at Acadia University have gone on indefinite strike after talks broke down in a dispute over salaries and related issues. Classes were cancelled on Monday and academics were locked out of...
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Salsa it's not, but we can teach Latins our moves
UK universities are developing strong regional partnerships and could export this expertise, says Deian Hopkin Latin America is the flavour of the month, to judge by the latest series of Auf...
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Gary Day
'There's no greater way to win the respect of your peers than to write gobbledegook. The less they understand the more clever they think you are' Humanities scholars seem to talk only to one another...
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Dirty money
Mystery surrounds a comment made by Donna May, founder of the Molly Mopps cleaning agency. She was quoted in the Sunday Herald last week as saying: "Intellectuals like university lecturers have the...
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Otherworldly wise
Academics may be unfairly labelled as being otherworldly, but sometimes they seem to be just that. Staff on one research journal were pleased recently when a set of proofs came back to them on the...
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Title fight
Gill Evans, the University of Cambridge professor of history, this week lashed out against her institution again. In an incident catalogued in the Cambridge University Reporter, she notes that Alison...
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Frozen in committee
As temperatures plummeted this week, the wind whistled through the draughty Palace of Westminster, where windows had been left open despite falling snow outside. The chairman of the Commons standing...
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A new herd of freshers?
An advice clinic established by 18 of the capital's universities and colleges aims to raise the aspirations of young Londoners with a view to getting them into the health professions. Students can...
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Reunited: 'The kudos of an LSE degree lingers'
Judge Jules, aka Julius O'Riordan, studied law at the LSE in the 1980s before becoming a Radio One DJ. During my tenure in the late 1980s, the most notable difference between life at the London...
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Why I... think universities need to start a campaign for true dissent
Religious fundamentalism makes headline news these days. While Islamic extremism attracts the most attention, religious fundamentalism is thriving everywhere. Islam has no monopoly on the phenomenon...
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Is this our best Offa?
Before we can begin to ensure 'fair access', we have to define the term, argues Graham Allen. For reasons that no one has fully explained, my constituency, Nottingham North, sends fewer of its young...
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Don't misinterpret research
Scientists are alarmed at how the Bush regime has distorted their findings, writes Kurt Gottfried. Science has played a seminal role in the birth and development of the US. The nation's founders...