Private staff get a big bienvenue
French universities are to open their doors wider to private-sector professionals and academics from foreign universities. Education minister Luc Ferry has modified the rules governing recruitment of...
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Swiss: do not leave us in dark over Gats
The Swiss government is preparing to sign agreements on regulation of higher education under the General Agreement on Trade in Services despite opposition from university rectors and the European...
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Call to axe US 'party' tables
The American Medical Association has called on the publisher of a popular college guide to eliminate its annual ranking of the "top party schools" in the US. It says the ranking and the accompanying...
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Colleges cool on plans for SA rejig
South African vice-chancellors have warned the government that its "punitive" approach to restructuring higher education is alienating the sector and will undermine reform. Njabulo Ndebele, vice-...
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Latinos lose out in legal U-turn
America's Latino population is suffering as anti-affirmative measures approved by state governments and backed by the courts begin to bite. Latinos have the highest highschool dropout rate of all US...
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Thwarted staff nationals spark inquiry into University of Botswana
GABORONE A committee of inquiry is investigating allegations of financial and administrative irregularities at the University of Botswana. The underlying issue is the employment of non-Batswana...
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Sheepish winners
The campaign group Seriously Ill for Medical Research has announced the winners of its Mad Animal Rights Awards. Director Vicky Cowell said the group had devised the awards to bring to public notice...
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Train in vain
A late entry has arrived for The Diary competition to name the train on which vice-chancellors will travel to the annual Universities UK meeting in Aberystwyth next month. Reader David Dunn reckons...
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Shakedown cruise
Stowed away on the replica Endeavour , the subject of The Ship , a BBC2 series that began this week, was a team of academics. The volunteers - historians, a botanist, botanical artist and an...
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Aberdeen's big bruv
And you thought Big Brother was over. The University of Aberdeen plans to create a "live diary room" for its open day next week. Visitors to the August event will be invited to go into the booth and...
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Liverpool's live culture
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have made an unusual contribution to Liverpool's bid to become the European capital of culture in 2008. They have grown the city's liver bird logo from...
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In the news: Tim O'Riordan
As world leaders meet for the earth summit in Johannesbur, one advocate of sustainable development will be fighting to make himself heard. To be sure, Tim O'Riordan, professor of environmental...
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Education, education, too much education?
Is paying poorer students to stay on at school and university money well spent? asks John Mace Chancellor Gordon Brown has announced that 16 to 19-year-old students from poorer backgrounds will...
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That old age problem that won't go away
Banking on Death Or, Investing in Life
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