Banjul
The University of the Gambia is due to open this autumn with 30 full-time and 20 part-time staff, mostly from outside the country. It expects to have an initial 200 undergraduates on degree...
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An idea to kick around
During their annual conference this week - hosted by Durham University - vice-chancellors enjoyed dinner at one of the most unusual conference dinner venues of recent years - Middlesbrough Football...
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On the move
Stephen Tomlinson, professor of medicine at University of Manchester Medical School, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff. Alan Langlands,...
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Glittering prizes
De Montfort University has awarded an honorary master of arts degree to Rose Hill, British Marathon record-holder and winner of silver medals in the Barcelona Paralympics and Berlin Marathon. The...
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Eyewitness
Sunday is the 20th anniversary of the founding of Poland's Solidarity Trade Union, which led, by domino effect, to the end of one-party rule, not just in Poland, but throughout the Eastern Bloc. For...
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Turning a drop into a ripple
Will the shift in British third world aid to 'in-country' training be a more effective strategy? asks Sheila Vaughan It has taken Britain about 40 years to realise that training aid for developing...
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Cleveland
Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore has launched a plan to widen college access by making tuition tax-deductible, giving tax credits and deductions for college saving, keeping down interest...
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Mostar
The senate of Mostar University has dismissed the president of the university, Marko Tadic. United States ambassador to Bosnia, Thomas Miller, said attacks on the president, which have been...
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Milosevic sends in the thugs
Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, not content with stripping universities of their autonomy, has resorted to new, violent methods of dealing with his critics in academia. A protest at Belgrade...
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Students defiant after police raid Belgrade HQ
The Yugoslav student-based resistance movement Otpor staged a defiant but symbolic gesture after a police raid last week on its Belgrade headquarters, writes Gillian Sandford from Belgrade. Anti-...
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Palestinian rape victims turn to novel champion
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's apartment is the first stop for many Palestinian women on their way to pray at the nearby Dome of the Rock Mosque in the old city of Jerusalem. Many of them are victims of...
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Germans host Expo campus
For 100 days until mid-October, Hanover is hosting a unique experiment - the first International Women's University, comprising hundreds of academics and students from 115 countries. Set up as a...
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Simmering student unrest hits Mexico City
Against a background of waving tricolours, chanted slogans, revolutionary songs by students from the national school of music and placards calling for free love and a free public university, students...
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Readers' reactions
A fortnight ago in The THES.. Mary Beard celebrated the 'dirty bits' being restored to the Loeb Classical Library What a strange piece from Mary Beard about the "dirty" bits in classical literature....
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Got to go to market
The Tories' new endowment scheme should be more radical, says David Blanchflower The diagnosis is in - British universities need enormous transfusions of cash and they need them now. Without this...