A fairer system must replace this mad rush
As university telephone switchboards cope with their busiest week of the year, this is an opportune moment to promote an admissions system that avoids the annual mad clearing scramble. It is time to...
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Boycotting Israel would constrain forces for peace
The academic boycott of Israel was a one-week wonder for most of the national media. Once it had become clear that other journals and institutions were not going to follow Mona Baker's lead in...
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Medical school leads way to a new third age
By 2021 there will be 12 million people aged over 65 in the UK, matched by a corresponding decrease in the number of young people. In this light, the decision by the University of East Anglia's new...
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Why I ...believe academic sanctions should be taken against Israel
Living in Ramallah where the sight of Israeli tanks has become commonplace and leaving the city by car an impossibility, it is almost a compliment to learn that the rest of the world considers you a...
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New boys, but same old club
Labour claims to have reformed the state's finances. It hasn't, says Colin Talbot. We still have the same old private government of public money. When the new Labour government came to power in 1997...
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Belgrade
A Serbian student has failed to raise the £15,000 he needs to study at Oxford despite a massive response from a nationwide appeal by a local newspaper.
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Brussels
A one-year European University Association project involving 11 joint masters programmes at 73 European universities is to be launched next month to discover why the programmes are successful.
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Bucharest
Romania is offering grants to students from Moldova to study at its universities despite a breakdown in negotiations with the Moldovan education ministry.
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Turning a blind eye
Demoralised academics are losing the will to make their students really work for their qualifications, argues Carol Jones. On July 15, I saw some of my philosophy students for the first time ever -...
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Cambridge mauled by its own watchdog
Cambridge University is run like a failing corporation, with "inadequate financial controls, management and planning", according to its standards watchdog. Last week, the board of scrutiny published...
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NHS hit by lack of radiographers
A national shortage of radiographers is hitting National Health Service waiting lists, and not enough graduates are being produced to fill the available posts, an expert at the Robert Gordon...
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Rwanda lays genocide ghosts to rest
Rwanda has produced its first batch of technology and management graduates this month. The 451 students of the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (Kist), who were awarded degrees and diplomas...
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Icon of right snubbed
Montreal's McGill University has rejected a substantial amount of money from a donor keen to establish a chair in the name of late libertarian icon Ayn Rand. McGill dismissed the idea of setting up a...
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New Jersey
The Princeton University official who wrongly accessed rival Yale University's confidential website for applicants has been required to resign his post but will remain employed by the university,...
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Buenos Aires
Students of naval architecture at Argentina's state Universidad Nacional de Quilmes have earned the university $8,000 (£182,000) over the past two years by designing, constructing and selling yachts...