Students put lifestyle before bank balance
Students start their degrees intending to budget carefully but become debt blind by their final year. New research reveals how quickly good intentions fizzle out once students get a taste for...
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Double firsts get windfall
Researchers who can demonstrate a decade of excellence will share the extra £20 million that the new 6* status will bring. The board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England agreed this...
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Australia proposes to introduce top-up fees
Australia's federal cabinet is to allow universities to impose their own fees on top of those set by the government. The proposals, leaked from a report by education minister Brendan Nelson, signify...
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£60m 'not enough' for energy research
This week's energy white paper has failed to promise enough money to redress years of underfunding and widespread skills shortages in the energy research sector, research leaders have warned. The...
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Findings: Soot cut could prove harmful
Cutting emissions from diesel fuel could lead to an increase in other harmful pollutants, according to US researchers, writes Natasha Gilbert. In a study published in the Journal of Geophysical...
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Findings: Algae growth uncovered
The scope for damaging growths of algae in seas and rivers may be severely underestimated, according to a chemist who is pioneering alternative ways of analysing sea and river water, writes Martin...
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Virt-u dies with nothing to show but cheap porn
The failure of an online university for Europe has cost the public £1.4 million and sparked a series of legal rows. Phil Baty reports Almost £1.5 million of public money has been wasted with the...
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'We must learn from this failure'
Enimm commissioned Brighton University business academic David Francis to report on the collapse of the project, hoping to extract some positive lessons. Dr Francis noted the irony that he was never...
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Chomsky attacks boycott of Israel
The academic boycott of Israel is wrong, says linguistics professor and political dissident Noam Chomsky. Academics angered by the failure to resolve the Palestine issue should instead focus on their...
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Canada revels in C$1.7bn boost
Canadian universities have won back much of the research funding lost in the devastating cuts of the mid-1990s in a federal budget that has also poured cash into student scholarships. The budget,...
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Faculty forces delay on merger
A plan to merge the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Chinese University of Hong Kong into a single "world-class" university has been put on hold after meeting resistance from...
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Jesuit parachuted in to end turmoil at Prague
Years of internal conflict at Prague's Charles University have been brought to an end with the appointment of a new dean of the university's Catholic theological faculty and plans to concentrate on...
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Turks regain self-rule
Turkey's universities are to regain autonomy under reforms passed by the new government that strip the central higher education authority of most of its powers in the biggest shake-up since the...
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Border controls hit isolated Kaliningrad
Lithuania's preparations for accession to the European Union are creating difficulties for students in Russia's far-western Kaliningrad exclave. New rules covering transit between Kaliningrad and the...
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Far right grows on Serbian campuses
Rightwing anti-western and anti-democratic student groups are rising in popularity among Serbian students. History students at Belgrade University have founded a group to campaign for the...