In the news
Few will find themselves more closely involved in the changes envisaged by the new National Health Service plan than Graeme Catto when he leaves his present post as vice-principal of Aberdeen...
Search
-
-
On the move
Christopher Peel, chief scientist for the mechanical sciences sector of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency in Farnborough and a leading researcher into air safety, has been appointed to a...
-
Children of the revolution
Iran's young are hungry for change - and they know that education is the key to transforming the Islamic republic, writes Desmond McLernon The 21-year-old Islamic Republic of Iran has had a turbulent...
-
Eyewitness
More than 30 years ago, 2,000 people from the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia were shipped out to make way for a giant United States airbase. Now they want to return - at least to the...
-
World watch
Morocco's minister of home affairs ordered 500 students from Niger protesting against the non-payment of seven months' arrears of bursaries and scholarships to end their occupation of their country's...
-
World watch
Professors and administrative staff at the Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro have ended a 48-day strike over a 63 per cent pay claim. They accepted a 10 per cent bonus after the state governor...
-
Autonomy boosts Italian quest for efficiency
Italian universities have become more efficient and productive since autonomy was granted to individual institutions in 1992, according to a survey by the higher education ministry's national...
-
Minister who got his sums wrong is forced to quit
Plans for reform of Poland's higher education system are to be revived following the forced departure of the country's education minister. Miroslaw Handke resigned following a parliamentary vote of...
-
Row over rectors rattles authority
A political row over the selection of rectors for universities is threatening the future of Turkey's higher education authority, Yok. A member of the ruling coalition government is proposing...
-
Secretive institutes forced to rethink
A Dutch academic has won a case at the European Court of Justice that forces European Union institutions to give detailed reasons for any refusal of access to public documents held in their libraries...
-
Canberra nets Pounds 1bn profit from degrees
Australian graduates are not the only ones to benefit financially from their degrees: the federal government makes a "profit" of A$2.7 billion (Pounds 1.04 billion) a year from its investment in...
-
Move to increase red tape criticised
Argentina's university rectors have criticised their government's decision to introduce lengthy bureaucratic procedures for the convalidation of academic qualifications obtained abroad. Under the new...
-
Face to face
(Photograph) - A Peruvian university student in a makeshift gas mask joins hundreds of students, professional and construction workers whose demonstrations in Lima against the re-election of...
-
Sex bias rampant among medics
A study has found pervasive discrimination and sexual harassment of female clinicians, researchers and teachers at US medical schools. The study, which involved about 2,000 people at 24 randomly...
-
World Bank praise for top Ugandan university
Uganda's Makerere University has become the fastest growing university in East Africa, but its accelerating student intake has been achieved without compromising educational quality, according to a...