Prodi Government fails to deliver cash
Anger erupts as Italy cuts university spending, writes Paul Bompard Italian academics feel disappointed and betrayed by spending cuts made by the centre-left coalition Government led by Romano Prodi...
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Indian talent heads for home
Indian scientists and researchers are returning home, attracted by an expanding economy and a flood of investment in research and development. Migration from India to the West has fallen from 70 per...
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EU firms up plan for FP7 spend
The European Union's seventh framework programme (FP7) is in its final stages of discussion, with the prospect of greater emphasis on research projects that will generate economic growth. The...
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Paris
The first French higher education institution in the Gulf region has opened. Last month, 200 students paying fees of €16,600 (£11,200) began courses on secular programmes at the co-ed Paris-Sorbonne...
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Makerere
Yoweri Museveni, the President of Uganda, has said that Makerere University, which has been closed since early November, will reopen with new lecturers. The university was shut after lecturers went...
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Seoul
Margaret Spellings, the US Education Secretary, last week led the first delegation of university presidents to South Korea to build bilateral academic links.
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Strasbourg
The city will gain a super-university in January 2009 when the universities Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg 1), Marc Bloch (Strasbourg-2) and Robert Schuman (Strasbourg-3) all merge.
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Paris
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is seeking "model employers" for case studies for a conference next September on workplaces where staff can thrive and succeed. Details: www...
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Why should some get an easier ride than others?
Progress to higher education is still not determined solely by ability, and Bill Rammell refuses to stand for it. It is socially and politically unacceptable that participation in higher education is...
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Gary Day
Is there such a thing as free speech? No. Or if there is then Gordon Brown may legislate against it. Right, that's that sorted. Oh, all right then. I'd suppose I'd better explain what I mean. It's...
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A piece of advice worth logging
University and college presidents in the US are rushing to set up blogs, occasionally using them to criticise some people on campus and congratulate others, The New York Times says. It quotes lawyer...
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Meal that leaves a bad taste
The word around Oxford is that on the night of last month's vote on changes to governance, David Eastwood, the chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, dined at Keeble...
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Bologna, byword for passion
The word "Bologna" may cause glazed eyes in some quarters of higher education, but in Montenegro it clearly has the potential to inflame. University of Montenegro student Ivica Todorovic has been...
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An unhappy business
Loud boos greeted Peter Sutherland, BP chairman and soon-to-be chair of the London School of Economics, last week. Sutherland, who was attempting to give a speech at the LSE's Old Theatre, was...
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Flying up the ladder
The Times Higher 's esteemed news editor Alan Thomson lent gravitas and authority to the debate over the cost of a degree aired last week on Tonight with Trevor MacDonald . Unsurprising then that he...