Access drive has failed to bridge class divide
Universities were last week urged to strengthen efforts to attract more working-class students to degree courses as figures revealed that the participation of students from poor backgrounds had...
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Student cities skew the data
New universities in the same cities as elite Russell Group institutions have much lower intakes of students from working-class backgrounds than other former polytechnics, it has been revealed, writes...
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£7.5m to spur alumni giving
The Government this week announced £7.5 million in grants over three years to English academic institutions to help kickstart their fundraising activities. Universities will have to match funding of...
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Australia must partner India, not lure away students
Australian universities have been told not to treat India as another market from which to attract fee-paying students. Glyn Davis, chair of Australia's Group of Eight research-intensive universities...
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Campus freedoms under fire
Academic freedom is under threat in even the most modern democratic nations, John Sexton, president of New York University, warned this week. He told a joint meeting of the New York-based Scholars at...
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US law schools lose anti-military battle
US universities that accept federal funding must allow military recruiters on their campuses even if they object to the military's ban on openly gay people, the Supreme Court has ruled. The court...
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Law to tackle cheats
Sweden's education ministry is drawing up plans that would effectively force universities and colleges of higher education to investigate every allegation of cheating by academic staff. The...
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Balkans to get a slice of Bologna
European education ministers are this week considering how to persuade governments in southeastern Europe and the western Balkans to give universities more autonomy and allow more co-operation with...
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Lecturers lash Thai PM
University lecturers in Thailand are playing a key role in undermining the popularity of Thaksin Shinawatra, the Prime Minister. Academics have queued up to denounce the Prime Minister after his...
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Paris
French students are threatening more protests over job contracts that allow people under 26 to be fired more easily after President Jacques Chirac this week backed their introduction. The student...
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Washington DC
The American Association of University Professors has protested that FBI apologies are inadequate for the behaviour of two sheriff's deputies assisting the bureau's Joint Terrorism Task Force after...
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Hanover, NH
Tuck Business School at Dartmouth College is to offer up to 12 MBA scholarships for European students.
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Stop counting beans, start planting trees
Government shortsightedness and contempt is destroying our once-great education system, argues Peter Atkins The combination of misunderstanding, pettiness, shortsightedness and contempt that drives...
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Alison Wolf
There are 21 copies of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto on our library shelves and 13 copies of Capital . The shelves are pretty much where they stay. From time to time, I glance at how many have been...
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Top marks for cunning?
How much might Natfhe members be offered to be bussed into old universities past jeering Association of University Teachers' picket lines? It is a prospect raised by one vice-chancellor who...