Aptitude tests still favour rich
American-style admissions tests may be no fairer a way for British universities to "talent-spot" students than looking at A-level results, according to a new study, writes Paul Hill. A paper in the...
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Bern
The Swiss Government has demanded more information from the US authorities about the death of academic Salah Jmor, who was apparently shot by a US soldier in Iraq in June. Professor Jmor, an Iraqi...
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Uppsala
The expulsion of political scientist Kenneth Good has damaged Botswana's reputation as a plural democracy that honours academic freedom, the research director of Sweden's Nordic Africa Institute says...
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Canberra
The Australian Government has launched a worldwide search for at least 8,000 foreign students whose visas were wrongly cancelled, after a court found fault with a letter from the Immigration...
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Wellington
New Zealand's university unions and employers have agreed to put pressure on the incoming Government to increase funding and resolve salary issues. But the two sides failed to agree on national pay...
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Revolt and corruption stall Iraq's recovery
Attempts to rebuild Iraq's universities are being hampered by the growing insurgency and donors' doubts about the country's long-term stability. And the country's ambassador to Unesco, Muhi al-...
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Group explores strategies to keep US a global powerhouse
The US Education Secretary has set up a commission to craft a new national strategy to maintain US dominance in higher education. Margaret Spellings, concerned that America's traditional global lead...
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Student support trails rising costs
State aid for French students is trailing behind rising costs of university fees and accommodation, the country's main student union claimed this month. An inquiry into students' purchasing power...
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Thai academics decry graduates' weak degrees, poor English
A crisis of quality afflicting Thai degree programmes threatens to produce graduates with "useless" qualifications, leading education experts have warned. Their criticism comes after years of...
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Strings tangle funding purse
Australian university vice-chancellors are threatening to withdraw support from the research funding framework after the Government included research council cash in the overall proposal. Education...
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Patriotic purloining outfoxes the West
Officials in Moldova's breakaway pro-Moscow region of Transnistria are drawing comfort from the thought that Western money aimed at Transnistrian university students is being creamed off by corrupt...
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Forget the deckchairs - are we on the right ship?
We need a radical post-RAE rethink to free research from the grip of needless bureaucracy, says Robert May The way that the quality of scientific research undertaken by our universities is evaluated...
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Nancy Rothwell
Will 2008 really see the last RAE?Until then, there'll be plenty of discussion... and ideally some research as well It is two years until we get into the submission and assessment process for the...
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John Street finds one gong is music to his ears
Earlier this month, the Nationwide Mercury Music Prize - for British or Irish album of the year - was awarded to Antony and the Johnsons for I Am a Bird Now . As well as the cheque for £20,000, the...
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In the (don't) know
The grapevine continues to buzz about Sir Howard Newby's unexpected departure from the Higher Education Funding Council for England to the vice-chancellorship at the University of the West of England...