Admissions staff race to avoid delays
Admissions officers are facing a weekend scramble to avoid delays in clearing as they grapple with new complexities in the compilation of results. Tony Higgins, chief executive of the Universities...
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Postgraduates call for better social life
* Universities must consider nurturing their "cash cow" of postgraduate students by helping to improve their social life and giving them their own accommodation. The National Postgraduate Committee...
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Niamey
Two student leaders at the University of Niger, held for allegedly killing a police officer during student protests in February 2001, have gone on indefinite hunger strike to secure either their...
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Nsukka
The University of Nigeria Nsukka is to reopen on September 3 after closing in mid-June when at least 20 people died in warring between rival cults on campus. Student cult members will be expelled.
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Hong Kong
The British Council's IELTS English testing system has been officially adopted by the University Grants Committee as the standard English proficiency test for graduating students.
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British Library staff hold strike over pay
British Library staff are staging a second strike this week, with 100 staff taking action at the Boston Spa Document Supply Centre. The 48-hour walkout by Public and Commercial Services Union staff...
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Rare beetles relocated on campus site
Three rare species of invertebrate have been discovered on the site of a new building at the University of Lincoln's Brayford Pool campus. The insects, which include rare beetles Bruchela rufipes ,...
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Essex to capitalise on success of Silicon Fen
Essex University is to create a 16-hectare high-tech research park at its Colchester headquarters in a bid to make more out of its intellectual property. The university has signed a ten-year deal...
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Borrowers could cash in on loan work
Need cash to pay off your student loan? Then why not work for the Student Loans Company chasing up other borrowers who are in arrears? The SLC is seeking applications by August 16 for part-time...
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Should we pay for the sins of our fathers?
American descendants of African slaves are among a growing band seeking reparation for wrongdoings committed more than a century ago. James Walvin asks whether they have a case. I have studied the...
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Pupils 'try before they buy'
Under pressure to recruit from a broader range of backgrounds, universities are offering school pupils a taste of college life during their summer break. Catherine Quinn reports. Victoria Narra, a...
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How to spot the students with an A for aptitude
Traditional exam results are not necessarily the best way to measure student potential. Harriet Swain reports on efforts to improve admissions procedures that also help to widen access for non-...
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Green father of earth mother
Once dismissed as heresy, Jim Lovelock's theory of earth as a single organism has become an accepted orthodoxy. Fred Pearce talks to the self-styled father of the environmental movement. Jim Lovelock...
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Do Hawaiian beaches hit your hot button?
A PhD in psychology has given Bill Siegel the edge in advising tourist boards. Adrian Mourby continues our summer series on tourism. In the 1960s, Bill Siegel was intending to do his PhD in...
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A grouse for Mr Bigwiz
V. S. Naipaul treats academics with disdain - and he doesn't think much of arts students either. He tells Andrew Robinson why those who can't deal with the complexities of science shouldn't be...