Joint plan to thwart visa fraud
Visa and degree course applications made by overseas students could be unified to help streamline admissions and to combat fraud, writes Tony Tysome. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service...
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Madras
The Indian Institutes of Technology are introducing masters courses in the humanities and social sciences for the first time. IIT Kanpur introduced a two-year MSc in economics last year and IIT...
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Bouake
The University of Bouake, closed down three years ago during a political crisis in Cote d'Ivoire, has reopened with promises of help from France and Unesco.
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Brussels
The European Union Council of Ministers has formally approved guidelines on quality assurance programmes for EU universities.
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Bologna forces a degree cull in Spain
The Spanish Government will cut the number of first degrees offered at its state universities from 140 to 79 as part of its engagement with the Bologna Process. Arts and technical subjects will bear...
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Remedy sought for doctor dearth
The Australian Government is trying to tackle a crisis in the supply of doctors by ploughing money into university medical faculties and creating more fee-paying places. It has provided funding to...
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US colleges see a growth in giving
Contributions to US universities grew by nearly 5 per cent last year to more than $25 billion (£14 billion), reversing several years of a decline in giving. But just ten universities - most of them...
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Kremlin backs modular reforms
Russia is moving towards convergence with the Bologna Process after the Kremlin gave its backing to the reform of the country's notoriously conservative state university sector. Education Ministry...
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Memorials to lost Jews
After decades of silence Italy's universities are starting to acknowledge their part in the persecution of Jewish academics and students under Mussolini. In 1938, legislation introduced by the...
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Paris looks to build more halls
Paris city council is prepared to pay for the construction of more student homes if it can get the land to build them on, Bernard Delano, the capital's mayor, said last week, writes Jane Marshall in...
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Anger grows in clash over elite university site
Austrian Education Minister Elisabeth Gehrer has come under fire for a decision to create an elite university on the site of a former psychiatric hospital used by the Nazis to carry out acts of "...
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Today's students get a raw deal and they know it
Boris Johnson learnt two things when he ran for rector. The first: being English and Tory has its disadvantages. And the second? In the course of an inglorious campaign to become lord rector of...
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Gary Day
We live in a strange age. On the one hand, there's the preaching of modernisation, on the other the preaching of God. Preaching? Perhaps the two are not so different after all. Modernisation involves...
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Rude encounter with watchdog
Before you pick up your telephone, take note - Big Brother is listening. The partner of a former Cardiff University academic had a surprising call recently. After ten years at Cardiff the academic,...
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Speculation on chair of 1994
After months of feverish gossiping, and a lot of misguided betting, we finally know that David Eastwood is the new chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. But the tenners...