Reform angers philosophers
French education minister Jack Lang has bowed to pressure from philosophy teachers to neutralise reforms due to start in lycees in September, despite claims by an opposing group of philosophers and...
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Student 'fabricated' quotes
An internal committee at Haifa University has found that a masters thesis presented by Teddy Katz contained fabricated quotes purporting to come from veterans involved in an incident at the village...
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Aid cuts and fee hike hit Harare
The University of Zimbabwe is heading for crisis, with looming student anger over a whopping rise in fees and the university set to lose crucial donor funding. As a state body, the university -...
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Home of learning loses out to uppity neighbours
New England, the undisputed home of higher education in the United States, is confronting a sudden erosion of its dominance. The region's disproportionate share of the country's university students...
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Vietnam's PM calls for better standards
Vietnam's prime minister has issued an urgent plea to the country's universities to raise standards to meet the demands of a modern economy. In a speech to lecturers at the National University of Ho...
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Vocational colleges award degrees despite v-c hostility
More Australian technical and further education colleges are awarding degrees despite strong opposition from the country's vice-chancellors. The sector enrols more than 1 million students on...
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Cult e-zine hits right note
Six years ago a Sardinian mathematician with a passion for music started a free hi-fi web magazine aimed at cutting through the hype of the commercial press. Now www.tnt-audio.com boasts 1.5 million...
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Industry links net a £12m reward
The UK government has backed seven new multimillion-pound university partnerships with business, including a project to develop nanotechnologies to create gas sensors for use in aircraft fuel tanks....
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Malaysian OU opts for Heriot-Watt expertise
Tan Sri Abdullah Sanusi, president of the fledgling Malaysian Open University, has finalised an e-learning deal with Heriot-Watt University to give new Malaysian students access to Heriot-Watt's...
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Six online pioneers launched by French
Six French "digital campuses" will open in October, pioneers in a government-sponsored attempt to provide online courses. Each is a consortium between institutions specialising in law, business or...
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Bid to get students to play around in class
Games and case studies must play a growing role in university teaching to counteract the trend towards computer-based learning, according to a teaching expert. Speaking at the recent conference of...
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Protest to free jailed Russian
US academics are campaigning for the release of Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian postgraduate student who has been arrested and held in custody in the United States for violating security provisions in...
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Sociology e-degree launched
Three Manchester universities are to launch jointly the United Kingdom's first electronic postgraduate degree in sociology. Manchester, Salford and Manchester Metropolitan universities have pooled...
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Heart of academia continues to beat
During the past 12 months I have been appraised, assessed, monitored and examined; evaluated, validated, scrutinised and observed. I have been appraised by my head of school while my research...
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Past the sell-by date
In the debate about teaching quality audits and the need to minimise the intrusive nature of the Quality Assurance Agency's processes I have seen little mention of the problem of the numerous...