Court battle over postgrads
Germany will have to defend restrictions imposed by some of its regions on foreign postgraduate exchange students before the European Court of Justice. The European Commission said the German federal...
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Finns plan overhaul of funding
Finland is considering an overhaul of the way polytechnics are funded, with a shift away from student numbers as the sole criterion. A working group has proposed that only 61 per cent of the funding...
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Irish look to widen grading bands
Four of the Irish republic's seven universities are likely to introduce a new marking scheme after a study showed that Irish students were marked harder than their counterparts in the United Kingdom...
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Quality concern in European education area
The head of France's university quality body has said that Europe's proposed higher education area cannot operate effectively without an agreed evaluation system. National governments must develop...
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Swiss strike to challenge cuts
Nearly 6,000 people took to the streets of Berne this month as the city's university student union led a strike by teachers, lecturers and public servants to protest against the most severe cuts to...
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Australia rakes in foreign cash
More than 200,000 foreign students are expected to enrol in Australian education institutions this year, boosting the economy by A$4.12 billion (£1.5 billion). Onshore university campuses are likely...
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Canadian trawl fishes for facts
Academics will soon be able to go through archival material as easily as surfing the internet thanks to a Canadian portal being developed. A C$6.7 million (£2.96 million) project called the Text...
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Recession takes huge chunk out of budgets
The recession in the United States may be easing, but it is taking a drastic bite out of public university budgets - even as enrolment continues to increase. Tax revenues are sagging in the wake of a...
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Don's Diary: Lights, cameras...equality
Sunday D-Day minus one. Tomorrow filming starts on our equality and diversity training video aimed at managers in higher education. Have I forgotten anything? Actors? Crew? Intravenous caffeine? I...
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In the news: Tim O'Shea
Tim O'Shea, master of London's Birkbeck College, will be back on an old stamping ground when he becomes principal of the University of Edinburgh in October, succeeding Lord Sutherland. Professor O'...
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Who took the Michael?
Readers wishing to emulate Tim O'Shea's rise from the Open University - via a short stint as master of Birkbeck College, London - to principal of the University of Edinburgh might like to note the...
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Biting talk
Disgruntled physicists, hit by budget cuts to pay for British membership of the European Southern Observatory, are biting the hand that once fed them. They are attacking Ian Corbett, who was director...
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Comprehensive first
Andrew Dilnot, director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, is to become the first head of an Oxbridge college to have been educated at a comprehensive school. Mr Dilnot, who has been elected...
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What a Parry on
Delegates at the Association of University Administrators's annual conference next month have a range of keynote speakers from which to choose. The offerings include a presentation by Lesley Parry,...
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Stunned by silence
While Middlesex University and its staff wrangle over the extent of the redundancies in the letters pages, The Diary has received a note from a retired lecturer at the university concerned about the...