Summer schools cut dropout rates
Summer schools for students about to enter university can cut dropout rates dramatically, according to a study by Peter Jones and Michael Abramson of the University of Central Lancashire. Mr Jones...
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Ucas identifies racial imbalance
Young Asian women are overrepresented on courses in medicine while mature, black men are overrepresented in social work courses, according to a study by the Universities and Colleges Admissions...
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Malta fears EU accession will bring foreign deluge in its wake
The University of Malta, founded by Jesuits in 1592 to produce the island's own lawyers and priests, is braced for rapid change as accession to the European Union moves from distant aspiration to...
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Lagos
The Nsukka campus of the University of Nigeria has been closed after a gun battle between rival student cults left at least 18 people dead. The attackers opened fire on students from the engineering...
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Penalty levy plan enrages students
Students in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia stormed the regional parliament in Dusseldorf last week in protest at plans to introduce student registration fees and penalty fees for long-...
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Premier backs U-turn on fees
Australia's prime minister has indicated that he supports vice-chancellors' calls for greater freedom to set tuition fees. John Howard has promised to reconsider deregulation proposals from the...
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Reborn sector lobby fails to enlist NZ heads
Academics and students in New Zealand have resurrected a pressure group to lobby for more public funding for higher education in the run-up to the snap election called by the Labour government,...
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Quest for league tables' holy grail
A leading US school has embarked on a quest to find the holy grail of university league tables - how to measure accurately the academic impact an institution makes on its students. Columbia...
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Don's diary: Recruitment headaches
Week one: Monday Four piles of application forms for departmental posts arrive from personnel. Turn with hope to the largest, ICT in education. The first CV states: "Aim: to secure a good, well-paid...
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In the news: Margaret MacMillan
Margaret MacMillan, professor of history at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, this week became the first woman to win the UK's biggest non-fiction award, the £30,000 Samuel Johnson prize. Her...
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A trusted lieutenant
The people who run universities often figure in the Queen's birthday honours - but just why did Geoffrey Skelsey, registrar of the University of Cambridge, become a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian...
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Giddens makes way
The search is on for a successor to Anthony Giddens, director of the London School of Economics, who is due to quit his post in September 2003. Professor Giddens - the man behind prime minister Tony...
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Snap a line-dancing v-c
The Diary wishes to contact anyone heading for Nottingham in September for the Heera-Case 2002 meeting "New Agenda: New Voice". The focus is fundraising, and there are many presentations on topics...
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Access or the Ufizzi?
Last week's annual conference of the European Access Network took place in sunny Prato, a medieval town in Tuscany just 20 minutes from Florence. That could explain why, in the final session of the...
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Degree of apathy
The topic of foundation degrees has really got the ball rolling on its national website, hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Its discussion forum has identified four issues for debate and has attracted...