'We don't want students on our doorstep'
Robin Cook isn't alone in fearing antisocial neighbours, Olga Wojtas reports Former foreign secretary Robin Cook has failed to stave off the threat of student neighbours in his Edinburgh tenement...
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Promo's last shout
A University of Nebraska bookstore has ended a promotion that gave customers vouchers for free beer. The privately owned store withdrew the offer, which was legal, when university administrators and...
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Bari 'sex for admission' probe
The rector of Bari University has promised an investigation after an official was arrested for allegedly offering answers to admissions tests in exchange for sex. Giussepe Specchia, 46, coordinator...
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US tuition fee rises spark threat to aid
Republicans in the US congress say the increasing cost of university tuition is a "crisis" that universities are not doing enough to resolve. Some lawmakers have separately suggested withholding...
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Iraqi university seeks UK help after coalition snub
A new semester is soon to begin at Iraq's universities despite deteriorating security and continuing starvation of vital equipment, books and journals. The 20 or so state universities are urgently...
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Czechs seek cash to compete
Czech rectors want long-promised increased funds to be paid to universities before the country joins the European Union next January, as fears grow that many students will leave for better-funded...
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Private practice
Europe's second private medical university opened its doors in the Alpine city of Salzburg this week to a group of 42 students. Those starting their first term at the Private Medical University...
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Women grab one in four v-c jobs
The gender mix at the top of Australia's universities is shifting dramatically - a record 11 of the 39 members of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee are women. Six years ago, only two women...
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Degree market to open up
Private businesses will be able to award their own degrees in direct competition with the traditional higher education sector under government plans published this week. Launching a consultation on...
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London strike to 'hurt' freshers
The Association of University Teachers will take its members out on strike during student registration for the first time ever next week, writes Phil Baty. In the first step of its agreed policy to "...
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Today's news
Portillo questions Tory line on top-up fees Michael Portillo caused speculation yesterday that he will oppose Iain Duncan Smith's policy of abolishing top-up fees as he spoke warmly about...
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Path to Bologna 'lacks urgency'
European university leaders want education ministers to inject fresh urgency into the Bologna process of convergence between higher education systems across 36 countries. This week the scheme's...
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Free to find our own way on access and inclusion
Jane Davidson outlines how Wales will benefit from designing its own tuition-fee and student-support system The numbers of students going into higher education in Wales are already at an all-time...
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Alison Wolf
Unions are rolling out the expected positions, but must the hypocrisy surrounding top-up fees be similarly predictable? As a teenager, I chose to study social science because I wanted to understand...
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Minister's gangster wrap?
Alan Johnson, the new higher education minister, last week gave a unique insight into government decision-making. Asked how he was going to help the poorest students facing annual tuition fees of up...