Joint art centre mooted
Kingston University and the Wimbledon School of Art plan to establish a joint Centre for Art and Design but stop short of a merger. Peter Scott, the vice-chancellor of Kingston, and Rod Bugg, the...
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First access faculty
Plymouth University has increased its reach in the Southwest with the launch of a new faculty dedicated to widening participation. Plymouth, already the biggest university in the Southwest, formally...
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Horses for courses
Edinburgh University is to launch the first postgraduate degree in equine science run by a university veterinary school. The MSc, which will begin next autumn, is aimed at students with first degrees...
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Dyke is York chancellor
BBC director-general Greg Dyke will become York University's chancellor next summer. Since graduating in 1974 with a degree in politics, after being accepted as a mature student with one grade E A...
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Poisonous programmes
It has been labelled chewing gum for the eyes, the drug of the nation, an emanation of mankind's vacuity, but what have been television's most tasteless, mind-numbing and vacuous hours? The THES is...
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NI party leader returns to Ulster professorship
The leader of a Northern Ireland political party returned to her old job at Ulster University this week as the precarious peace process again hit the the buffers. Monica McWilliams, head of the Women...
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Derby course plans shelved
Derby University has shelved plans to launch 40 foundation degree courses amid claims that a chronic lack of money could sink the new qualification and the government's higher education expansion...
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Tough job market forces up grades
Germany's economic crisis is encouraging grade inflation as students demand good grades to help them compete in a tough job market. Professors say they feel under pressure to award inflated grades -...
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For-profit saviour for flagging system
A group of entrepreneurs is aiming to revive Germany's flagging higher education system by establishing a private university to be run as a profit-making business. Businessman Peter Pedersen is...
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Revolution in Georgia almost claims rector
The "Revolution of Roses" that toppled Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze came close to claiming another victim - the rector of Tbilisi State University. Roin Metreveli resigned in the wake of...
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Nigeria lends Liberia support
Nigeria has promised help to the University of Liberia in Monrovia, which the civil war has left in need of repair. Peter Okebukola, executive secretary of Nigeria's National University Commission,...
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Canada offers cash to beat lure of US
An increasing number of Canadian universities are offering postgraduates guaranteed funding to remain competitive with the US. The University of Alberta has joined a handful of other Canadian...
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Israelis unite to fight boycott
Israeli academics are to set up a forum to fight the international academic boycott of Israeli institutions, the heads of the country's universities decided this week at a meeting with Natan...
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Foreign intake rise fuels illegal worker fears
A rapid growth in the number of foreign students in Japan has heightened concerns that many enter the country to work full time or to emigrate illegally rather than to study. There are also growing...
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Czech science 'grinding to a halt', says deputy PM
Czech scientific development is stagnating, hindered by an ageing research population, lack of funding and poor career prospects, according to a government report. Peter Mares, Czech deputy prime...