AoClends support to FE top-up charges
Britain's further education colleges should charge their wealthiest higher education students £3,000 across-the-board top-up fees, college bosses said this week. The Association of Colleges said that...
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Unified budget is best
Greater central control of budgeting is the secret to boosting a university's teaching and research ratings, as well as dealing with any financial deficits, according to Leicester University's vice-...
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E-learning university targets student market in Singapore
More than 1,500 Singaporean students are expected to enrol with Scotland's Interactive University, generating an anticipated £6 million over the next three years, writes Olga Wojtas. The news was...
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Trust me, I'm the doc's son
Charges by Italian health minister Girolamo Sirchia that jobs in medical schools are "hereditary" have been supported by a ruling in the courts. Judges have cancelled the appointment of a specialist...
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America slow to take international outlook
American university students remain largely cloistered from international affairs in spite of wars and worldwide terrorism, according to a study. The report, from the American Council on Education,...
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'We must meet the US challenge'
French education minister Luc Ferry has told universities to attract more foreign students, and to use their increased powers to strengthen their public-service ethos. He said they had to resist...
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SA technikons to be repackaged
South Africa's technikons (polytechnics) are to be renamed universities of technology in a repackaging exercise that has also established identities for new institutions created by a dozen mergers...
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Scandal-hit Slovakia in U-turn
The education committee of the Slovakian parliament is to reverse September's law abolishing tuition fees for external students. The legislation gave students the right to study free and banned...
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New Zealand v-cs bite the bullet and stick within tuition fee limits
New Zealand universities are setting student fees for 2004 within limits they criticised when they were announced earlier this year. Although the government's hope that rises would be less than the...
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Overseas student numbers to soar
A fourfold jump in the number of students seeking access to higher education in other countries by 2025 is predicted by researchers from IDP Education Australia - from 2 million this year to 7.6...
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Wits v-c sets out stall for transformation
Loyiso Nongxa's appointment as the first black vice-chancellor of the University of the Wi****ersrand is a South African success story, writes Karen MacGregor in Durban. Professor Nongxa, who had a...
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You pay for my study, I'll pay for your daughter's
One way to ensure cash for higher education is for each generation to invest in the next, argues Rob Marris Whether top-up fees will have the positive effect on university funding suggested in the...
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Baroness hits back at laureate's broadside
Britain's best-known female scientist has hit back at her critics after a Nobel laureate attacked her latest book in this week's THES . Philip Anderson begins his review of Oxford professor Susan...
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Divisive research plan axed
Funding chiefs look set to sidestep the government's controversial proposals for further concentration of research as set out in January's higher education white paper. The move represents a near-...
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In the news: Desmond Tutu
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu is about to take up his first academic appointment. The former general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, who was awarded the peace prize in 1984 for his...