Yet another judicial investigation has revealed nepotism and corruption in assigning teaching posts at Italy's universities. The latest in a series of exposes of concorsi - national competitive exams...
The New Zealand Labour Party's hopes of hanging on to power in last week's general election may have been dashed when its grand gesture of abolishing interest payments on student loans lost some of...
Despite death threats, two postponements and the presence of hundreds of protesters, an academic conference on the mass killings of Armenians living in Turkey in 1915 went ahead under heavy police...
Fewer American students are defaulting on loans despite increased indebtedness. The student loan default rate fell to 4.5 per cent in 2003, the latest year for which the figure is available,...
Vice-chancellors take note, quality assurance has come of age - it is no longer a beast of burden, says Peter Williams Whatever was on the minds of vice-chancellors when they met for their...
Learning in the 21st century was predicted to change radically, but students still want the age-old university model It is always fascinating to read earlier writers' predictions and compare them...
Lord Kinnock, chair of the British Council, knows a bit about marketing. While chairing a meeting with Universities UK he warned that the sector would have to think hard about how to lure overseas...
The stopwatches were out to time Education Secretary Ruth Kelly's appearance at a reception hosted by the Association of University Teachers, Natfhe and the National Union of Students at Labour's...
Meanwhile Ms Kelly's last-minute failure to attend a fringe meeting on pupil testing put Barry Sheerman, chair of the Parliamentary Education and Skills Select Committee, in a spot of bother. He'd...
Any academic knows that timetabling is crucial. It's unfortunate, then, that UUK's conference meeting to discuss the implications of visa charges on international recruitment on Tuesday at a fringe...
One absentee from the Labour conference was a certain protege of Schools Minister Lord Adonis who, in years gone by when he was an academic, had encouraged a student to apply for a job as an economic...
"Don't Look Back?" Do Look Back, but Don't Look Only Back. Look up, look up - seek your Maker. Martin Scorsese, like Bob Dylan, is one heaven of a maker. Dylan till 1966: this was to be the heart...
Last week I was suspended from Middlesex University. I was told I could not enter the premises, nor talk to staff or students at the university. I was escorted off the premises by security. Why?...
As Helen Taylor hands over her files to a new head of school, she reflects on life, death and wedlock It's that time of year when the headships of schools revolve and so, after five years, I am...
UK business and academe must band together to maintain levels of key skills, says Helen Connor If the UK is to be internationally competitive, we have to increase the skills of our existing workforce...