Loughborough aims to gain global fame
Loughborough University has embarked on a recruitment and development drive designed to launch the institution on to the international stage. New posts will boost the four research schools set up...
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Student 'yobs' drive out locals
'Studentification' is creating ghettos and killing communities, Jessica Shepherd writes MPs have told university heads that student ghettos are driving their constituents "up the wall". Politicians...
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Thrifty US dreams up 4-day week
As petrol prices rise, staff 'lose' a day to save cash, writes Jon Marcus in Boston Some US campuses that are largely devoid of students in the summer are even quieter this year as officials pack the...
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Rome
Pope Benedict XVI has been given three scholarships to allow theology students at any of the Pontifical universities in Rome to study at the University of Bochum in Germany. The scholarships were...
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Washington DC
The American Association for the Advancement of Science said that the cost of completing the International Space Station, resuming space-shuttle flights and meeting President George W. Bush's goal of...
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Frankfurt
Police last week made 47 arrests after protests by students against tuition fees. Students smashed windows and set rubbish bins alight on campus before locking themselves in a café.
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen University has welcomed government proposals to merge it with the Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University. The move is part of a...
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Cranfield takes skill down under
Cranfield University is to be the first British institution to establish a base in Australia. The specialist defence establishment is expected to conclude an agreement shortly with the South...
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Jobless Moroccan graduates threaten suicide
Desperate Moroccan graduates have threatened to commit suicide to force the Government to find them jobs in the public sector. Groups representing the unemployed graduates talk of their "collective...
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South Africa plans fee cap in bid to ease tuition costs
A growing gap between state support and fees is pricing students out of universities. Karen MacGregor reports The South African Government fears that spiralling costs are pricing poor black students...
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Ethnic split set to continue with new Serb rector
The Serbian-taught University of Kosovska Mitrovica has a new rector - Zdravko Vitosevic, former dean of the faculty of medicine at the Kosovo institution. His appointment coincided with an appeal by...
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Not the daddy, DNA shows
Modern science has dealt a cruel blow to the pride and self-esteem of the Tuscans, who for centuries have tormented other Italians by claiming that they not only spoke the purest form of the Italian...
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Putin pledges to pump cash into overseas study scheme
Russia is planning to demonstrate President Vladimir Putin's G8 commitment to education by pumping public funding into a scheme to send students, teachers and researchers to overseas universities for...
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Give that philosophical master a big brown star
Simon Blackburn counts his blessings that Plato isn't a colleague - his outputs just wouldn't cut it with the RAE sub-panel More years ago than I care to remember, I edited the famous philosophy...
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Alison Wolf
Should UK universities care about the quality of higher education in other European countries? Or should we smile smugly about our own relative success and hope, without actually saying so, that...