You Cannes, you can't
Media and production student Stuart Fenegan has just blown his chance of graduating from the University of Greenwich this year - but in considerable style. His final-year coursework, a short film...
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Eyewitness: Simeon II of Bulgaria
Simeon II, Bulgaria's "king without a throne", will not personally stand for office in the June 17 parliamentary elections. However, the monarch-in-exile will be represented by candidates from the...
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Freedom and control clash
Will accreditation systems hamper the creation of a European higher education area? asks John Pratt Accreditation was high on the agenda when European ministers of education met in Prague last week...
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Staff hunt goes global
Canada is abandoning a hiring policy that is impinging on its universities' abilities to attract international academics. Universities are required to advertise for Canadian faculty before...
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Vital signs are promising for a creative revival
The University of Ghana is leading a drive to revive a national creative-writing programme in schools in an effort to encourage young writers and to restore Ghana's strong literary tradition. Kofi...
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For the record
Half of expansion down to OU Students enrolling at the Open University accounted for more than half of the expansion of student numbers at undergraduate level last year. Undergraduate enrolments were...
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European laboratories pool their resources
Seven diverse international laboratories have formed a collaboration to coordinate their research, develop priorities and maximise technology transfer. The group, called Eiroforum, will be chaired by...
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Degree pioneers fall short in graduate job league
The first students to start foundation degrees will enrol at institutions with some of the worst graduate employment records - despite the qualification being promoted as one that will appeal to...
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OU may profit in Labour plan for health service
The Open University could increase its student numbers by more than 50 per cent and increase its funding if Labour Party proposals for a University of the National Health Service go ahead. The party...
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City University's fire
Monday evening's fire, which raged through City University's main site, College Building, was started accidentally in an academic member of staff's office, according to investigators. The grade II...
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Pull the other one
(Comedian and broadcaster Fred MacAulay has been installed as rector of Dundee University in a ceremony that involved him being hauled through the city centre in a carriage by 12 red-gowned students...
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RAE nurse rule sparks protest
Universities keen to be seen as research intensive are fighting to keep their nursing academics out of the numbers submitted for the research assessment exercise. Nursing was the worst performing...
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Unions baying for QAA blood
Lecturers' leaders are predicting the death of the Quality Assurance Agency after they agreed a multi-pronged attack on its regime. The Association of University Teachers declared war on the agency...
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V-c's vision for viability entails loss of campuses
As two universities prepare to downsize, THES reporters examine the rationale De Montfort University vice-chancellor Philip Tasker's travelling days will soon be over. Since his appointment two years...
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Glittering prizes
Neil Anderson , professor of psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, has been elected a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology , a division of the American...