Sheffield on track for a walk with dinosaurs
Scientists are exploring a new frontier of palaeontology, dinosaur footprints, with the help of a device that simulates in the lab tracks found on the Yorkshire coast near Whitby. Through analysis of...
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Colleges pushed to raise fees
Further education college heads have warned that funding proposals will force them to increase fees for adult students by 10 per cent next academic year. An Association of Colleges analysis of the...
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Trouble brewing over part-timers
The indiscriminate use of part-time, fixed-term and hourly paid teachers by some university departments is storing up legal and financial trouble, a conference of linguists and human resource...
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Former v-c advocates superstore approach
Universities should be more like supermarkets and offer students satisfaction or their money back, according to Sir Geoffrey Holland, former vice-chancellor of Exeter University and a past permanent...
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Project still set for space
Scientists whose work was due to be tested on the International Space Station say they are confident that their experiment will go ahead despite the loss of the space shuttle Columbia . Marco Narici...
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Medical schools deny anti-Muslim admissions policy
Medical schools denied this week that they sought to exclude Muslim students because of their refusal to undertake certain procedures, such as abortion. Newspapers had earlier reported that Muslim...
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Copenhagen
Bjørn Lomborg, director of Denmark's Environmental Assessment Institute, has decided to appeal against a ruling that he was "in clear breach of the norms for good scientific practice" in his book The...
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Beijing
Only 150,000 of the 580,000 Chinese students who studied abroad between 1978 and 2002 have returned home. But the number who returned last year was 47 per cent up on 2001, according to the ministry...
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Nantes
About 1,200 distance-learning students have enrolled for the 29 courses offered by the virtual university of the Pays de la Loire. The regional authority has invested €1.5 million (£1 million) in the...
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Astana
Kazakhstan is to cut the number of student grants and credits for law, economics and international relations courses in favour of agrarian and technical sciences, and teacher training.
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Tehran
A death sentence for apostasy on Hashem Aghajari, a history professor at Iran's Tarbiat Modarress University, has reportedly been repealed. No confirmation has been issued by the judiciary.
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Kuala Lumpur
Four of the nine Malaysian students studying in Iraq have returned home in fear of their safety following several briefings by Malaysian embassy officials on the prospects of war on Iraq.
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Oslo
The Norwegian government has bowed to a ruling that its positive discrimination policies aimed at increasing the number of female professors were illegal but it is to continue with other initiatives...
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Washington DC
US government officials said that about 4,000 out of 6,000 higher education institutions had met this week's deadline for supply of data under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program introduced...
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Scots get aid to pursue EU bids
Scottish universities and their spin-off companies can tap into a £900,000 scheme to help them bid for funds from the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). Iain Gray, Scotland's minister...