New page 3 figures
Thanks to the students' news-paper in Sheffield for drawing our attention to an interesting innovation by their counterparts in Cambridge. The Cambridge Student, recently started by the Cambridge...
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Cereal branders
Frank Pignatelli, chief executive of the Scottish University for Industry, has been outlining to the Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee the difference between the SUfI...
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Another new arrival
How sweet. The Quality Support Centre announced this week it had changed its name. From now on it will be known as the more "neutral" Centre for Higher Education Research and Information. Neutral...
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In the news
Steve Martin knows how important his new job as chief executive of the Welsh further and higher education funding councils is, and he thinks everyone else should know too. He is struck by how little...
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On the move
David Bridges, pro vice-chancellor and professor of education at the University of East Anglia, has been appointed the first executive director of the new Association of Universities of the Eastern...
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Glittering prizes
Astronomer Patrick Moore is to receive a special millennial award from the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society in recognition of his unique contribution to astronomy. Sam Beer, Eaton professor...
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Eyewitness
More than 50 years after the second world war, bitter arguments over the facts and distortions of the history of Nazi Germany continue. In Moscow, the first public exhibition of documents and relics...
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Florence
A professor arrested in 1997 for passing students in exchange for luxury household goods has received a two-year suspended sentence on condition that he returns silver, crystal and porcelain valued...
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Rome
Italy's highest court has awarded a student at Bologna University e415 (Pounds 250) in damages for "anxiety" caused by the inefficiency and rudeness of university administrators. The verdict...
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A date with integration
The University of Pristina is ready to greet the rest of Europe as an equal, as Michael Daxner reports At the start of a new millennium, the University of Pristina has a chance to become a fully...
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Aids risk high in Pacific
University students from Pacific islands are a high-risk category for Aids, according to a report by the United Nations agency UNAids. The report says the better educated, better skilled, healthier...
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Tribal tensions close campus
The Obafemi Awolowo University of Ile-Ife has closed until further notice in the face of continued communal clashes between the inhabitants of two communities over the relocation of a municipal...
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Black cloud hangs over the US
American college presidents continue to be submerged in a wave of scandals. The president of Century College, Minnesota, Charles Hays, has been forced to resign after an investigation found he had...
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Nike pulls out of colleges
Nike has withdrawn millions of dollars of financial support, free athletic equipment, advertising and other benefits from any US university demanding higher pay and living standards for overseas...
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Student told: 'No sex on course'
A student at the Utrecht School of Journalism has been reprimanded for writing a monthly column for Playboy magazine as part of her coursework. Marije Sietsma has been told that her monthly columns...