In the news: Gloria Laycock
Gloria Laycock, who gave her inaugural speech as director of the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science yesterday, has found herself the focus of much interest this week as the Dando trial returned to...
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World watch
Trieste A court ruled this week that 21 foreign-language lecturers at the University of Verona should have their status as lettori restored after they contested their downgrading to technical staff...
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Eyewitness: Kremlin moves on media magnate's empire
The armed takeover of Russia's last independent national television channel, following a boardroom coup, has provoked a storm of criticism the world over. The forced imposition of new management at...
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The education of the exiled
Afghan women plan to defy the Taliban ban by setting up their own university in Pakistan. Bernard Leeman reports. The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan has launched a challenge to...
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Russian students forced to act as unpaid labour
Students at some Russian universities are being forced to act as unpaid labour, cleaning up campuses and turning out for demonstrations to please local politicians. Earlier this month, busloads of...
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Spain to scrap entry exams
The Spanish government has unveiled plans to abolish national university entrance exams and to introduce a test for would-be lecturers. Other changes in the long-awaited proposals for the...
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£600,000 a year to solve our problems
A Swiss foundation that aims to enhance Geneva's role in international cooperation, solving problems relating to peace, human rights, equitable social relations and sustainable development, has...
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Sealed Turkish archives could support genocide claims
Academic access to Turkey's Ottoman archives, which could shed light on Armenian claims of a genocide, is being manipulated by the authorities. The Turkish government has disputed motions in European...
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Small-town mindset keeps young home
Young Australians from urban areas are far more likely to attend university than those outside the big cities, according to a team of researchers with the federal education department. The main cause...
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Japanese fret over how to fill classes
As Japan's academic year gets under way, university heads are growing worried that a greying population could eventually force universities to recruit students rather than select them. In the past...
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Big Brother fee is 'looming disaster'
The United States government plans to charge international students a fee to fund an anti-terrorism monitoring system that will keep track of their addresses and academic status at all times. To pay...
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Argentina confronts dropouts
Argentina will introduce legislation to restrict student entry to the country's universities. Rising student dropout figures, overcrowded lecture halls and saturated labour markets, especially in...
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Weather wise collects £12,500 prize
The rain in Spain may fall mainly on the plain, but what about the rain in the Thames Valley? Farmers, insurers and others need to know, and a start-up company from Reading University's Centre for...
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NCR-Abertay link-up pays off for students
The University of Abertay, Dundee, is joining forces with information technology giant NCR to encourage more software engineers to study and work in Scotland. To mark the launch of the partnership,...
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Text gets downgraded in multisensory world
Higher education is facing a cultural crisis as young people grow up with increasingly multisensory systems of communication, an expert has warned. Walter Stewart, director of global marketing,...