'Harassed' white staff sue on race grounds
Five white professors have sued the predominantly black university where they work for discriminating against them on grounds of ethnicity and are seeking more than $1 million in damages. The suit...
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Row over pre-poll college upgrade
An attempt by Greece's ministry of education to clear up confusing differences between the its higher education system and those of the rest of Europe has caused turmoil in the academic community. It...
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Israel unveils plans to widen campus access for Arabs
Israel's university authorities are planning to attract students from neighbouring Arab states to a new university in Eilat. A five-year plan for higher education has been drafted by Nehemia Levtzion...
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Protest at Spanish Dearing
Spain's version of the Dearing report was launched last week to student protests in Barcelona against the "creeping privatisation" of higher education. Report author Josep Maria Bricall played down...
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Tablet decodes a tenth of Etruscan language
A bronze tablet, inscribed with more than 200 words of Etruscan text, has increased the known vocabulary of the ancient language by 10 per cent. The Tabula Cortonensis, which was discovered near...
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Museum pays lip service to music
Artificial lips playing notes on a real trumpet are one of the attractions at a new interactive sound laboratory in the world's oldest musical instruments museum. Visitors to the Edinburgh University...
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US colleges tap corporate field
American universities typically generate $5 million (Pounds 3.1 million) a year from developing and delivering programmes for corporate universities, a survey has found. Private-sector institutions...
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Scottish institutions deny merger rumours
Dundee and St Andrews universities have dismissed newspaper claims that they are planning to merge. The two universities have recently agreed to set up a "preferred partnership" to discuss working...
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Well judged
Sandra Dawson, director of the Judge Institute of Management Studies, has been named Businesswoman of the Year at the Cambridge Evening News Business Excellence Awards. Professor Dawson joined the...
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In brief
Nice to get a good review from Michael Beloff of my book, The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England and Wales, which was said to be written by Andrew Bonard and Jennifer Levin ("Lawyers are no...
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'Jigsaw' E-fit system helps ensure that the face fits
Researchers from the Face Processing Research Group have pioneered a new system of compiling E-fits of criminal suspects. The group, based at the University of Leicester, the Open University and...
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Rethink of student support could boost access plan
The House of Commons select committee is right to look urgently at student support in United Kingdom universities. Decisions in Scotland following the Cubie report are creating new anomalies even as...
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White male sector must set targets for diversity
British academics are too white and too male, and too few come from Britain's disabled population. The government wants universities to do something about these problems. In response, the sector is...
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It's official: cutting aid narrows participation
Last week we looked at higher education funding in Australia. This week, Stanley Aronowitz examines the situation in the United States The American academic system is divided along two axes: private...
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Willis claims fees agreed
Ministers have agreed in principle to allow universities to charge top-up fees after unofficial negotiations with vice-chancellors, a senior MP has said. Phil Willis, the Liberal Democrat education...