Boost in grant has strings
Norway is to increase the maximum grant available to full-time students by almost 20 per cent to NKr80,000 (£6,200) a year -but there are strings attached. Currently, students receive 30 per cent of...
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Sleepy rioters not up to much
A dawn raid has ended a two-day student occupation of several faculties at Rome's La Sapienza University, Europe's largest campus. Leftwing students were protesting against a 70 per cent increase in...
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Gulf states go in search of a future that has power to preserve the past
The Gulf states are in search of a university system that keeps pace with their prosperity and populations but does not destroy their Arab heritage, a Unesco conference in Oman heard last week. The...
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Indignant staff take to the street
Strikes and demonstrations by students and staff at universities specialising in arts and human sciences have highlighted their growing indignation at lack of resources. Last week, 1,300 students and...
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Austrian fee plan gets finishing touches
Austrian education minister Elisabeth Gehrer has presented the final proposals for the planned introduction of tuition fees for all students from autumn. According to the plan, students from Austria...
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Alliance ready to take on its rival
An international network of universities is preparing a series of special online courses largely geared at the Asian market. A meeting of the ten members of the Global University Alliance in...
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E-learning initiative for Wales
Tim Hutchings, online learning programme manager at the University of Glamorgan, reflects on the launch of Europe's largest online learning initiative, Enterprise College Wales. </a>
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E-study restores skill
Italy is launching a project for teaching art restoration and conservation through the internet. VIRartis (Virtual Art Restoration Training and Information School) will offer courses aimed at...
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Older staff can boost industry
Researchers at the University of Teesside who are studying age discrimination warn that companies should employ older workers now to safeguard their future. Catherine McCauley-Smith, who is managing...
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Battle of zealots and defenders rages on
Higher education should embrace the "constructive possibilities and achievable development" offered in the middle ground of the knowledge economy, according to Sir David Watson, director of Brighton...
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Scots make attractive proposal
Heriot-Watt University is rolling out its e-learning Scholar system to an international audience. It believes the move could boost overseas student recruitment to the United Kingdom. This is the...
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IT news in brief
User-centric forum Paul Priestman, founding partner in the award-winning design agency Priestman Goode, will give the keynote speech "What can digital media design learn from physical design?" at the...
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Eye-catching
Wendy Alexander, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong lifelong learning, had firsthand experience of the University of Abertay, 'Big Brother' technology, which it is hoped will boost...
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Universities are sinking under inspection load
Higher education wastes money on quality assessments that could be better spent, argues Roderick Floud. Fees for 250,000 students; the cost of five universities; the pay of 10,000 lecturers: each...
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Ethics and cash
Beggars cannot be choosers. The General Agreement on Trade in Services-oriented ventures necessarily adopt the spirit of the neo-liberalist ideology that has set them up: a maximum of profit in a...