Admissions systems around the world
Turkey Turkey's admissions system is centralised and highly competitive, writes Jennifer Currie. Every high school leaver is entitled to sit the standardised university entrance exam in June, which...
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Astana
Kazakhstan has introduced a cost-cutting law that allots a blanket sum to education. University and college students will have to compete for grants and credits. Tuition is free but board, lodging...
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Washington
United States education secretary Richard Riley has warned college and university leaders that the seriousness of the Y2K computer problem in higher education could prevent students from receiving...
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Cubie inquiry sets out key questions for debate
Scotland's independent inquiry into student finance this week asked whether education should be free to all, "and if so, who is all?" writes Olga Wojtas. The committee, chaired by Andrew Cubie, was...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has retroactively revoked the degree of a 1998 graduate accused of serving alcohol at a party where a first-year student drank himself to death. Charles Yoo...
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A ruckus over UCAS
The universities admissions system is in need of an overhaul but the proposed alternative, post-qualification admissions, has been almost universally rejected. Alison Utley reports. University...
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'Clearing happens so quickly there's no time to think it through'
Nina Oakes's A-level results were not what she had expected. While her grade A in music was welcome, two Es for maths and physics threatened to scupper her dream of studying engineering at university...
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The process of getting into university
For well-prepared applicants, the school examination results will come at least eight months after they first filled in a UCAS application form, writes Olga Wojtas. Forms for higher education entry...
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Malaysia blocks pollution index as fires rage
As raging fires in the forests of Sumatra and Borneo fuelled fears that Southeast Asia would again be hit by haze, Malaysia's cabinet has refused to publish official pollution data. Ministers fear...
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Let the source be with us
If the private purse is neither big enough nor open wide enough to fund education then we need a full public debate, says Bryan Gould. Some years ago, a viewing platform at Cave Creek, a well-known...
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Freetown
Sierra Leone has appealed to donor countries to help pay Fourah Bay University staff after it was discovered that their salaries, lodged in dollars in the central bank, were stolen by bank and...
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Rome
Umberto Eco, professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, is a member of one of two special committees set up by Italian higher education minister Ortensio Zecchino in February to evaluate...
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Why I... skipped university despite having obtained good A-level results
Charlotte Whittaker. Investment management assistant in Exeter. She obtained three As and a B at A level two years ago, aged 18. I had been offered a place on a joint course in film studies and...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Jon Turney argued against a code of practice for media coverage of science. David Packham Senior lecturer Department of materials science and engineering University of Bath...
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A goodbye to goodwill
Natalie Fenton believes that industrial action is the only option left in the battle to protect the health of higher education. Being involved in industrial action is an unusual state of affairs for...