Name institute after my nanny
A Canadian businessman who made a large donation to a university has decided to buck the trend of having a building named after him. Instead, he has asked for it to be named after his childhood nanny...
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Italy let off lettori fines
The European Court of Justice has let the Italian Government off swingeing fines for failing to end discrimination against the country's 1,500 foreign-language lecturers. In a landmark judgment last...
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AAU rebuilds its reputation
Donors are regaining confidence in the organisation reviving African universities. Karen MacGregor reports The organisation at the forefront of the drive to revive Africa's universities is slowly...
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French students protest about 'illegal' fees
Most French universities are illegally charging up to €3,500 (£2,400) for services that should be covered by statutory fees, student leaders claim, writes Jane Marshall in Paris. Last year, the main...
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Washington DC
The Association of American Universities has condemned President George W. Bush's veto on removal of a ban on federal funding of stem-cell research. AAU president Robert M. Berdahl accused Mr Bush of...
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Johannesburg
Academics at the University of Witwatersrand will have to hand over more than 10 per cent of their off-campus earnings under new legislation expected to generate R40 million (£3 million) a year.
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Dakar
A Senagalese and Mauritanian marine police operation has uncovered a people-smuggling operation into Europe in which young people were supplied with fake letters to universities in France, Spain and...
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Class of 2005 fails to duck the draft
Students caught up in the closure of a private university in Azerbaijan who expected to be found places at state universities have accused the Ministry of Education of breaking its word and instead...
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Happy to let someone tell you what to think?
Academics refuse to wake up to the fact that their freedom is being eroded. Dennis Hayes sounds some alarm bells I don't enjoy losing. But the possibility of defeat won't stop me putting statements...
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Ruth Scurr
In the summer of 1990, after a year of English at Oxford, I was lying about reading A. S. Byatt's new novel Possession when I suddenly realised that for the first time since starting university I was...
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David Hirsh: Divided in peace
Marching for and against a war Last weekend there were two peace demonstrations in London. One was organised by George Galloway's Stop the War Coalition, the other by the Jewish community. People who...
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Battle of the sexes
Joint University and College Union general secretary Paul Mackney, who has caused fury among some top officials after he took control of equality from his female co-general secretary Sally Hunt, went...
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Nighy impossible
Attempts to liven up graduation ceremonies by anointing famous people as honorary fellows can be a risky affair. After flagging up actor Bill Nighy as one of its honorands, Liverpool John Moores...
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Honourable in tent?
Lecturers at Birmingham University, meanwhile, also had to suffer disappointment when an important dignitary did not turn up for graduation. An e-mail was sent urging staff to turn up to the "marquis...
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A little sexual chemistry
Scientists may traditionally have been seen as a rather nerdy bunch who wouldn't recognise their libido if they tripped over it in the lab. But times are changing. At this summer's Royal Society of...