Lack of savoir plaire
France's policies for attracting and catering for foreign students lag behind those of its main competitors, says a report issued last week by the Conseil Economique et Social. Although France...
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Funding cuts hit Aboriginal enrolments
Australia's indigenous students, already underrepresented in the nation's universities, are falling further behind white Australians. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island students comprise less than 1...
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Academy probes its Nazi past
German universities are confronting their National Socialist past with projects that include finally reinstating academic titles stripped during the Third Reich. Research has shown that many...
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So long, guesswork
The European University Association has called on higher education institutions to improve their accounting procedures after the European Commission proposed they could recover audited indirect costs...
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Canberra
Julie Bishop, a former lawyer, will take over from Brendan Nelson as Australia's Education Minister in a mid-term ministerial reshuffle. Dr Nelson is promoted to Defence Minister.
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Moscow
Lawyers for Valentin Danilov, the Siberian scientist jailed on charges of spying for China, have lodged a new appeal with the Russian supreme court. Mr Danilov, former head of thermo-physics at...
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Luxembourg
European Advocate General Poiares Maduro has recommended fines against Italy of €265,500 (£182,000) for each day it fails to comply with a European Court of Justice ruling on the status of foreign...
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Rome
A US professor's job offer at Milan University's teaching hospital, the Policlinico, was rescinded after his conviction for the sexual assault of a 23-year-old student at Pennsylvania State...
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Baku
Two Azerbaijani students who claimed they were expelled from their universities on political grounds have been reinstated after a three-week hunger strike. The students, Turan Aliyev of the Pedagogic...
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Paris
Efforts to save the Librairie Place de la Sorbonne, a cultural and intellectual landmark in the Latin Quarter of Paris for more than 80 years, have failed. The bookshop on Boulevard St-Michel will...
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Behind freedom's veil, they plot for revolution
Hizb ut-Tahrir is targeting Muslims on UK campuses to overthrow our allies, warns former member Shiraz Maher "The Current Affairs Society? It's just an intellectual platform for discussing Muslim...
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Booted out of complacency
The death of his PC taught Kevin Fong that his most valuable possession was not a computer but its contents It is impossible to exist in the university universe without being heavily dependent on a...
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Let them tune in to the degree DJ
Heard about podcasting? No, it's not a disease as some of your colleagues believe, says Harriet Swain, it is a lively way of broadcasting information to technologically savvy students Broadcasting...
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Beautiful figures, vital statistics
Name: Duncan Lawson Age: The right side of 50 Jobs: Professor of mathematics education and associate dean in the faculty of engineering and computing at Coventry University. I am also Coventry...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I am in my 50s but new to academia. I fear that I am going to be left out of the 2008...