Builders bond a friendship
Uganda needs more primary schools. So Patrick Kelly and students from Britain and Ireland went out to help Last summer, 12 university students from Britain and Ireland rendezvoused at Gatwick Airport...
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Eye witness
Although Poland's Jewish community, three million before the second world war, has fallen to about 30,000, anti-Semitism remains. Religious symbols at concentration camp memorials have led to rows...
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Sarita misses the chattering classes
David Jobbins reports on the South African connection in the second part of a survey on global student mobility Sarita Ranchod studied at Rhodes University before enrolling for a masters in gender...
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Dundee waives fees for Rwandan women's leaders
Speciosa Nakavuma is the first beneficiary of a Dundee University scholarship scheme aimed at helping Rwandan women to rebuild their country. "Rwanda has suffered appallingly in recent years," said...
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Bath degree fails the Italian test
Rome A PhD student at Cambridge with a social science degree from the University of Bath has been told by Italy's largest university that it does not recognise her degree and she will have to do one...
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OU butters up to New Zealand
Wellington Britain's Open University intends to buy subdegree-level programmes from New Zealand's Open Polytechnic following the signing of an agreement between the two institutions. The agreement...
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Academics win access to data goldmine
MELBOURNE Australia's vice-chancellors have negotiated a unique agreement with the Australian Bureau of Statistics that will give academic researchers electronic access to a vast quantity of the...
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Scots parties play fees card
Scottish students could see an end to tuition fees under the Scottish Parliament. The parliament's devolved powers include higher education funding, and tuition fees are emerging as a major political...
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Learning accounts ready to operate
The first million individual learning accounts, set up to tempt people back into learning, will become operational from next Thursday. Each account-holder will receive Pounds 150 from the state to...
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A real screen saver
Chris Duckenfield describes how his university is bucking the UStrend of making cash-strapped students invest in laptops College costs in the United States are high, and plenty of people like it that...
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Revamp is Rebirth
(Photograph) - Tim Brook, Boris Muller and Marcus Gosling, postgraduate students at the Royal College of Art, London, used Macromedia Director to create Revamp, a program that lets a group of people...
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Software vendor switch 'could save Pounds 10m'
Universities and colleges could save about Pounds 10 million a year by switching from Microsoft desktop applications to cheaper alternatives, according to a report published today. Annual savings for...
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The commission's loss could be the UK's gain
Ther demise of the EC could help Britain towards its higher education goals, argues Juliet Lodge The European Commission's resignation was greeted in some quarters as a gleeful proclamation of the...
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Serb academia merits support despite regime
As the Kosovo crisis slips from diplomacy to war, it is hard to feel any sympathy for Serbs. So it was supremely bad timing that brought three University of Belgrade academics to London last week to...
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A touch too much
Roger King is wrong to think that to devise a credible standard for teachers in higher education, a balance must be struck "between proper rigour and a reasonably light touch" ("Institute of Learning...