Petaling Jaya
Malaysia's national accreditation board has ruled that students enrolling for masters degrees in private universities must have at least a first degree or its equivalent. The minimum entry...
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Ottawa
A police operation to apprehend clients of street prostitutes netted the man who performed Canada's first heart transplant. Wilbert Keon is to step down as director-general of the University of...
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Tripped up by false fluency
Culturally specific terms in education can be minefields for even skilled translators, says Pieta Monks. Pity the Soviet translator of a booklet about a collective farm designed to show western...
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Dollar aids student drift abroad
Britain remains by far the most popular destination for United States students doing academic work abroad and their numbers are increasing. But several non-traditional destinations have seen even...
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Arctic skills fill a generation gap
One of the most northerly academic institutions is the Inuit Arctic College in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. At 63 degrees north, only Arktikum in Lapland is closer to the Arctic Circle. Arctic...
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Euros for civic study
British universities are to prosper from grants under the European Commission Connect initiative, which will spend E8.4 million (Pounds 5.3 million). Sixty selected projects are supposed to combine...
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The lure of marrying a man from Minsk
Belarussian students on courses deemed socially in demand, such as teaching, law and social work, have to sign papers agreeing to go where ordered on graduation or forfeit their diplomas. The system...
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Chernobyl critic faces court for 'bribery'
Yuri Bandarzheuski, former rector of a medical institute in the Belarussian city of Gomel, faces charges of having taken bribes to let students through entrance exams. But the prosecution case can...
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Art works under the Louvre
The rumour started in arts circles and the press about five years ago. Was Le Jardin a Auvers a Van Gogh or a forgery by Emile Schuffenecker? The doubt meant no one bid when it came to auction in...
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Boom in shorter German degrees
The boom in Anglo-Saxon-style bachelor and master degrees in Germany has led university heads to set up an accreditation council to control standards. The Bonn-based council has set basic criteria...
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MIT-Dublin deal branded 'naive'
The Irish government has beaten competition from several countries and has convinced Massachusetts Institute of Technology to set up its planned MediaLabEurope in Dublin - but not everyone is happy...
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Centre planned on naval base
Michigan and Heriot-Watt universities are working together in a bid to set up a Scottish centre of engineering excellence at the redundant Rosyth naval base on the Firth of Forth. Senior staff have...
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Lativan laurels
Six Latvian teachers have been given masters in education degrees from the University of the West of England. The six, who collected their awards at Bristol cathedral, completed the European Union...
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Lunch-time lectures go on net
The internet is to provide a new lease of life for two of the oldest colleges in London. Tim O'Shea, master of Birkbeck, who is also to take up the post of provost of Gresham College from next month...
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Middlesex gets to grip with kids' virtual lives
Researchers at Middlesex University have launched a project that should help the training of teachers and students in the use of 3D virtual learning worlds, writes Tim Greenhalgh. Fiona Bailey and...