Thai MPs told to study for degrees
BANGKOK Poorly educated Thai MPs are dashing from parliamentary meetings to evening classes at a Bangkok university to study politics. New rules designed to end vote-buying, reduce the power of...
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Student porn 'mockumentary' is halted
BOSTON A student film-maker who planned to make a pornographic "mockumentary" about sex on campus ran into trouble over a "get paid to get laid" message advertised around the campus of Wesleyan...
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Higher education squeezed as Canadian income tax is cut
MONTREAL Canada's higher education sector and other hungry social programmes last month lost out to personal income tax reductions in the federal budget. Finance minister Paul Martin announced C$58...
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College heads resolve dispute
Melbourne The Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee last week settled a long-running dispute with the Copyright Agency Limited over payments worth more than A$30 million (Pounds 12 million) to...
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Setting the scene
(Photograph) - Dana Pinto of the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design with her model for Urban Odyssey at an exhibition of the work of scenography graduates at the Diorama Gallery in London
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Swapping the ghetto for the gown
Last week Alison Goddard revealed how universities are failing bright young, full-time students from poor backgrounds. This week she asks if they are doing all they can to help mature, part-time...
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Pristina
A German academic, Michael Daxner, has become the UN-appointed international administrator of Pristina University and its associated colleges. Professor Daxner says he will work to help make the...
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Montevideo
Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle has demonstrated his commitment to stronger collaboration with the state university, seen by his predecessor as a hostile bloc, by appointing three professors as the...
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Quality boss mars new Labour vision
Quality chief John Randall has raised serious doubts over ministers' plans to expand higher education provision through further education colleges, claiming that quality failings are "...
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Part-timers boost figures
There were just over a quarter of a million students in higher education in Scotland in 1998-99, an increase of about 3.4 per cent over the previous year. The growth stems almost entirely from an...
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1,400 extra places for Cumbria expansion
Expansion plans drawn up jointly by Cumbria College of Art and Design, Carlisle's St Martin's College, the University of Central Lancashire, and the University of Northumbria have been boosted by...
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New crime institute in memory of Jill Dando
(Photograph) - An institute of crime science is planned at University College London in memory of Jill Dando (below), the BBC presenter who was murdered on her doorstep 11 months ago. Combining...
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Scots lecturers lobby MPs to scrap fees
n The Association of University Teachers Scotland is to ask Scottish MPs in Westminster to pressurise the government to axe tuition fees in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The AUTS holds its...
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Warwick senate house occupied by protesters
More than 300 students occupied the University of Warwick's senate house this week in a protest against top-up fees. A general meeting of the student union voted to occupy the building, where the...
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Blunkett praises mentoring schemes
Student mentoring programmes should be applauded for their work in Britain's schools, according to the education and employment secretary, David Blunkett. Meeting a group of school children on a day...