Analysis: Polishing the Scottish jewel
Olga Wojtas sounds out key players on plans to transform Scotland into a 'learning nation'. Scottish higher education, according to enterprise and lifelong learning minister Wendy Alexander, is the...
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China could get Soros institution
International financier and philanthropist George Soros is considering establishing a private university in China dedicated to promoting democratic values in higher education. Mr Soros, who stopped...
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Inquiry reports on 'crisis' in Oz
A year-long investigation into Australian higher education by a senate committee has found the nation's university system in crisis and in need of substantial public investment over the next ten...
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No name and shame
Individual evaluations of graduate supervisors at Montreal's McGill University not only leave out the name of the student, they also withhold the name of the supervisor. Questionnaires being handed...
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Irish effort to temper high spirits
Drunkenness among students in Ireland has risen substantially above the European Union average in the past year, a conference in Dublin was told last week. Beer is still the most popular drink, but...
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International news in brief
Abuja Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has ordered the deployment of security agents to all 30 federal universities after two lecturers and 20 students died in fighting between predominantly...
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Reforms offer French new freedoms
As more than 1.5 million students start a new academic year, French universities are becoming more autonomous within a looser higher education system. Education minister Jack Lang has called on...
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School's 'deceit' creates a furore
The European School of Economics, an Italian private university founded on a validation contract with Nottingham Trent University, has been accused of advertising "officially recognised" degree...
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Students fight police profiling
Student leaders at Berlin's Humboldt University are taking legal action against city police chief Hagen Saberchinsky amid growing student protests over "profiling" of...
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Airline collapse hits universities
The collapse of Australia's second biggest airline, Ansett, has not only put 17,000 of its employees out of work but is expected to cost the nation's universities at least A$25 million a year (£8.8...
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Bombing disrupts webcast
News of the military strikes on Afghanistan and the resulting internet traffic bumped a 24-hour live broadcast on distance education off its principal website. When early bombing reports came in,...
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Brewers raise a glass to teen project
A team of Austrian teenagers has invented an automatic beer-tap system guaranteed to pull the perfect pint. The project was the brainchild of student Thomas Schick, 17, who invented it after visiting...
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China logs on to online universities
The 46 Chinese universities approved by the government to run internet courses have enrolled about 400,000 students in the past year. The ministry of education said that by the end of the five-year...
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MBA tables 'unfair to Europe'
MBA league tables published by financial journals are based on flawed methodologies and unfairly show European business schools to be less competitive than those in the United States, according to...
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Agony aunt
Q : How can a tutor quell students' fears about this war on terrorism? A : Such fears are a comprehensible response to a very real threat, so I am not sure that "quelling" them is possible or...