'Sweeping reform' for Turkey
Turkey's universities face certain change after the Islamic-rooted AK party's landslide victory in elections earlier this month. Party leader Tayyip Erdogan promised "sweeping reform" of the higher...
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Fort Hare fights back from brink
A THES special report on the eve of a meeting of Africa's education ministers Fort Hare, the crucible of southern Africa's liberation struggle where Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Chris Hani...
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Pay strike threatens to cripple Zambia
A THES special report on the eve of a meeting of Africa's education ministers As the brain drain intensifies, an indefinite strike could paralyse the University of Zambia next January as academics...
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Access revamp
A THES special report on the eve of a meeting of Africa's education ministers The Mozambican government has restructured the country's higher education in a bid to boost access and to align the...
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AVU shifts up a gear
A THES special report on the eve of a meeting of Africa's education ministers The African Virtual University will reach the end of its five-year pilot phase in the new year when it starts to offer...
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Problems facing Africa
A THES special report on the eve of a meeting of Africa's education ministers * The Dar es Salaam meeting of education ministers will next week examine how best to build education into Nepad (the New...
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The EU has much to learn from a wise old-timer
Politicians should take a leaf out of the Erasmus book if they want Europe to thrive, says Anne Corbett Four people who between them invented and brought to fruition one of the European Union's most...
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Gary Day
It's time to meet the three 'Rs', Russell, Redbrick and Remainder - the contestants in Margaret Hodge's university Blind Date If new Labour is so enamoured of the market why doesn't it make choosing...
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Don's diary: seeing the world in four colours
October 1852 University College London: while colouring the counties of a map of England, student Francis Guthrie notices that only four colours are needed. "Do four colours suffice to colour all...
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Nuisance caller
John Hutton was reminiscing on his appointment as health minister as he launched the University of the National Health Service's development plan last week. He was visiting a secure psychiatric...
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Blistering price of work
The following is a cautionary tale for male academics working long hours on their laptops. A letter to The Lancet last week told of how a 50-year-old scientist burnt his penis after spending an hour...
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Dead funny
Graveyards have become a recurring theme at presentations attended by The Diary of late. Jon Baldwin, registrar of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, told delegates at...
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Price of fame
Is BBC1's Fame Academy seeking to trade on the image of London Metropolitan University? The talent show's logo bears a remarkable similarity to the university's one. Moreover, the series, which has...
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Why I...believe Gordon Brown is right to criticise university management
University top dogs have been scolded. Barbara Woodhouse-like fingers are being pointed at vice-chancellors, who stand accused of bad planning and bad management. Some will counterattack by pointing...
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Payment on results
The Australian model of learn now, pay later, could be the UK's ideal solution, says Bruce Chapman In Australia in the late 1980s, university students were not required to pay for tuition. But this...