America slow to take international outlook
American university students remain largely cloistered from international affairs in spite of wars and worldwide terrorism, according to a study. The report, from the American Council on Education,...
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'We must meet the US challenge'
French education minister Luc Ferry has told universities to attract more foreign students, and to use their increased powers to strengthen their public-service ethos. He said they had to resist...
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SA technikons to be repackaged
South Africa's technikons (polytechnics) are to be renamed universities of technology in a repackaging exercise that has also established identities for new institutions created by a dozen mergers...
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Scandal-hit Slovakia in U-turn
The education committee of the Slovakian parliament is to reverse September's law abolishing tuition fees for external students. The legislation gave students the right to study free and banned...
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New Zealand v-cs bite the bullet and stick within tuition fee limits
New Zealand universities are setting student fees for 2004 within limits they criticised when they were announced earlier this year. Although the government's hope that rises would be less than the...
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Overseas student numbers to soar
A fourfold jump in the number of students seeking access to higher education in other countries by 2025 is predicted by researchers from IDP Education Australia - from 2 million this year to 7.6...
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Wits v-c sets out stall for transformation
Loyiso Nongxa's appointment as the first black vice-chancellor of the University of the Wi****ersrand is a South African success story, writes Karen MacGregor in Durban. Professor Nongxa, who had a...
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You pay for my study, I'll pay for your daughter's
One way to ensure cash for higher education is for each generation to invest in the next, argues Rob Marris Whether top-up fees will have the positive effect on university funding suggested in the...
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Baroness hits back at laureate's broadside
Britain's best-known female scientist has hit back at her critics after a Nobel laureate attacked her latest book in this week's THES . Philip Anderson begins his review of Oxford professor Susan...
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Divisive research plan axed
Funding chiefs look set to sidestep the government's controversial proposals for further concentration of research as set out in January's higher education white paper. The move represents a near-...
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In the news: Desmond Tutu
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu is about to take up his first academic appointment. The former general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, who was awarded the peace prize in 1984 for his...
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Toxin sparks organic scare
High levels of a fungal toxin have been found in organic maize products sold in British shops, prompting top scientists to question the safety of this increasingly popular approach to agriculture....
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Charities: cancer research cash eaten up by red tape
MPs and charities are calling on the government to ringfence cancer research funding amid fears that millions of pounds that could help find a cure is being spent on red tape. The Department of...
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Leeds vote signals rift over national pay bargaining
Senior academics at Leeds University have voted in favour of national bargaining, undermining threats by the elite Russell Group, of which Leeds is a member, to set its own pay. The university's...
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Next week
CRUNCH TIME Unions and employers lock horns in the final meeting on pay ALSO Madeleine Albright talks about her academic and political past in international relations and gives her views on America's...