Analysis: How deep must students dig?
In the second of our series on what the government must address in its upcoming strategy paper, Alison Goddard considers the case for top-up and differential fees. Despite prime minister Tony Blair's...
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Analysis: The price of study in the land of opportunity and in the land down under
United States Halfway through the academic year, and days before students were to leave for the winter holidays, public universities in California announced a 10 to 15 per cent increase in tuition...
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Brussels
European Union officials are drafting a policy paper urging EU institutions and member states to improve conditions for European researchers to help keep them in Europe. The European Commission will...
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Canberra
European Union and Australian university students will be able to study in each others' countries through a joint masters pilot project involving four Australian and four European institutions.
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Slow Finns seek swifter degree path
Finnish school-leavers will get a faster track to university entry if the ministry of education adopts a series of recommended reforms. Just 19 per cent of first-year university students come...
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Study finds little reality in English horror stories
A new survey has dispelled the myth that English-taught degree courses in countries where English is a second language are dogged by poor language skills among students and professors. The Brussels-...
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Turkish council attacks reforms
The head of Turkey's higher education council has attacked the new government's plans to introduce reforms aimed at giving universities more autonomy. Council chairman Kemal Guruz said the reforms...
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Bush ties aid to fast-track study
The Bush administration has proposed tying some economic aid for US universities to their record of graduating students on time. The idea, opposed by many universities, is the most sweeping part of...
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Historians row over Tasmanian invasion
Australian historians are gearing up for a legal battle arising from claims that Tasmanian Aborigines and early British settlers did not engage in a war that ended with the near-extinction of the...
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Colombia is loaned $200m to boost HE
The World Bank has approved a $200 million loan (£125 million) to help the Colombian higher education system. The money should boost student numbers, especially from poorer social groups, and improve...
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UN inspectors investigate Iraqi universities
United Nations weapons inspectors are investigating the nature and extent of links between Iraqi universities and Saddam Hussein's alleged continued development of banned weapons of mass destruction...
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The poor don't buy flimsy money-back guarantees
The economic returns of a degree often quoted by ministers are misleading and liable to be disbelieved, says Libby Aston The higher income that graduates earn through their working lives is...
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Alison Wolf
Sixth-form and undergraduate studies have always been symbiotic, so whay are they not more integrated? For much of 2002, the front pages were dominated by two stories: A-level marking and university...
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Dakar
More than 500 Gabonese students who have not been paid government allowances for five months occupied their country's embassy in Senegal's capital and held four diplomats hostage.
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New York
Stephen Greenblatt, professor of the humanities at Harvard University and outgoing president of the Modern Language Association of America, wants academics to buy more of each others' books and set...