Global allies seek to dilute West's influence
Academics from the developing world are setting up a network dedicated to reform of their higher education systems free from western domination, writes David Jobbins. The idea emerged from a seminar...
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Australia offers loans to foreign professionals in face of brain drain
In an effort to reverse Australia's brain drain, the federal government is to provide loans to foreign professionals intending to work in Australia to pay for university bridging courses to meet...
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Kenyatta puts faith in herbal remedies
A Kenyan university has engaged herbalists to offer health services and participate in research with its scientists and campus doctors. Kenyatta University authorities said the herbalists had proved...
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Peace prompts study revival
Peace has returned to Sri Lanka following the ceasefire agreement between government forces and separatist Tamil Tigers. It heralds a new era for the higher education sector after a decade of civil...
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Chilly reception for reform plan
The World Bank is refining its approach to higher education elements of its strategy for capacity building and poverty reduction in developing countries. Academics from developing countries have been...
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JRC membership drive pushes out eastwards
The European Union's Joint Research Centre wants to include more academics and scientists from countries seeking EU membership, expanding the European Research Area eastwards and southwards. Its...
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Ottawa
Canada's police complaints commission has urged the Mounties to apologise to student protesters for "inappropriate actions" at a Vancouver meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation...
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Research body accused of fraud
Italy's best-known independent social, economic and political research institute, Eurispes, is embroiled in accusations that it embezzled more than L4 million (£2.5 million) by running bogus training...
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Train delays derail exam
More than 10,000 trainee secondary teachers will have to retake their qualifying examination because of a rail breakdown near Paris. Holdups on a suburban railway line delayed many of the 1,100...
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Don's Diary: I, cyborg
Thursday Up at 5am for the drive to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Irena, my wife, and Mark Gasson, lead researcher, are with me. I do not like operations, yet here I am having one that I do not...
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In the news: Lovemore Madhuku
University of Zimbabwe law lecturer Lovemore Madhuku's Cambridge doctorate was on the legal aspects of bank financing for companies in Zimbabwe. But, in Zimbabwe's recent turmoil, his expertise as a...
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Make a valued decision
Perhaps booksellers should be advised to read some of the titles they sell. Amazon is currently offering the textbook Decision Analysis for Management Judgment - described as showing "how difficult...
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Latest news
Trials of cheap Aids vaccine under way Scientists starting a new phase of trials on a revolutionary Aids vaccine have started injecting 26 British volunteers with the treatment. The Medical Research...
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Sign for the times
The University of North London and London Guildhall University are forking out thousands of pounds on a new logo. Fishburn Hedges, which has been appointed to "create an identity for the soon-to-be-...
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Admissions U-turn
The Pembroke College "cash for places" scandal has had an interesting effect on Oxford West MP Evan Harris. John Platt, the former college chaplain and a good friend of Dr Harris, resigned last week...