American Intercontinental first to fail new QAA audit
Quality watchdogs have named the first university found to be failing under the three-year-old light-touch audit regime, writes Phil Baty. The Quality Assurance Agency found "alarmingly low"...
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Course loses quality stamp
Psychology at De Montfort faces loss of accreditation, reports Phil Baty, after claims it inflated teaching numbers. The British Psychological Society was set to withdraw accreditation from De...
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MP urges inquiry into official sanction of grade inflation
Bill Rammell, the Education Minister, has been urged to hold an inquiry after the Quality Assurancy Agency was accused of condoning the upgrading of the exam results of failing students at De...
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Huge leap in alumni giving nets £299m
Universities raised a record £299 million from their alumni last year, £57 million more than the year before. Figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency reveal that funds raised through...
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High spirits
High spirits: staff, students and graduates from Sheffield University abseiled down Sorby Hall of Residence before its demolition this summer to raise money for charity. Money from the abseil...
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Paris
French universities will have to pay for the clear-up operation and repairs to buildings that were damaged during the weeks of occupations held in protest against the now-abandoned youth employment...
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Dakar
Students and human rights activists staged a peaceful demonstration in front of the Russian Embassy in the Senegalese capital in protest against the latest murder of an African student in St...
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Chicago
Cary Nelson, professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been elected president of the American Association of University Professors for a two-year term.
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Buenos Aires
Far Left students have frustrated attempts to elect a new rector at the University of Buenos Aires for the third time in as many weeks. The students took control of buildings in which the elections...
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Austin
Priscilla Slade, president of Texas Southern University, was sacked after an audit found that she had spent $647,949 in university funds on unauthorised personal expenses, including visits to health...
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Canberra
Australia's vice-chancellors are to undertake a comprehensive survey of students' finances, living conditions and working arrangements. The study will be an update of an exercise held in 2000. The...
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Moscow
Two students died and at least four were injured when a fire broke out in a dormitory at Moscow State University. The fire swept through the 12th floor of the 26-storey central building. University...
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St Louis
John Neal, president of Maryville University of St. Louis, Missouri, resigned from his post after a guest in his university-owned home claimed he raped her. No charges have been filed.
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Good pursues fight for justice
An academic expelled from Botswana is buoyed by international support, writes Geoff Maslen in Melbourne. The Australian academic expelled from Botswana after teaching in the country for 15 years has...
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Swiss impose stricter visa rules for Chinese
Switzerland's federal Government has decided to impose stricter controls on entry visas for Chinese students, sparking protests from universities and cantonal governments, writes Paul Bompard. The...