De Montfort scores South African first
Britain's De Montfort University has become the first registered private higher education institution in South Africa as the country tries to formalise its fast-growing private sector under new laws...
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Jewish numbers fall at Princeton
Until the middle of this century, America's elite Ivy League universities restricted the number of Jewish students they accepted, and Jews were often banned from campus social organisations. So...
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Displaced medics sue to stay in country
More than 1,500 Greek students who were forced to abandon their studies at Yugoslav universities at the start of Nato's bombing campaign are threatening legal action against the Greek education...
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Albin Kurti
* Albin Kurti, one of the leaders of the Kosovar-Albanian Pristina University student union, was being held in the Liljan prison, according to ethnic Albanians expelled from Kosovo to Macedonia. Mr...
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Drop-outs disturb hi-tech plan
Just over a third of students in Ireland's fast-growing institute of technology sector drop out or fail their exams in their first year in college, a study shows. The highest leaving/failure rate was...
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Fees waived for mining students
Three schools of mine engineering in Spain are to waive tuition fees in an attempt to boost falling admissions. Students who get a mark of more than seven in the university entrance exam will have...
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Kingston's Pounds 1m media future
Greg Dyke, Pearson Television's chief executive, launched Kingston University's Pounds 1 million digital media centre this week with a prediction of massive growth and booming job prospects in the...
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Journal publishers appeal to state funders for net progress
Publishers of non-scientific academic journals cannot get properly set up for the internet without government money, according to two recent Canadian grant recipients. In April, the federal...
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Web gets personally precise for students
The University of Sydney's 35,000 students and 5,000 staff have become the first in Australia to use a new web portal system that aggregates content and services from a wide range of sources onto a...
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New exam
The British Computer Society has completely revised its examination to reflect up-to-date theory and current working practice. Three stages - certificate, diploma and advanced diploma, plus a...
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G8 online
Students will be able to question leaders at next week's G8 Summit through a new website, G8 Online, a collaboration between eCollege.com, the University of Toronto, and others. More than 3,000...
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Minutes in seconds
(Photograph) - Meetings go faster and are instantly self-documenting in the electronic boardroom at City University's IT centre of excellence, set up with a Pounds 500,000 grant from the Department...
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Pedagogic united unit
It can be argued that there is no reason to single out pedagogical research for special treatment in the research assessment exercise ("Big blow for teaching research in next RAE", THES, June 11)....
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Controls not control
I was surprised at the prominence given to Public Accounts Committee/National Audit Office pressure for more control over higher education institutions without a further exploration of the potential...
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A Labour lie that taxes talent
Having effectively enjoyed a free ride to their position of influence, it is somewhat unseemly for politicians to now stentoriously insist that others pay their own way. The moral weight of the...