Fortune no longer favours the Braves
US university sports teams have been barred from using names such as Redmen, Savages and Braves if they want to compete in the national league. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, which...
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Call to lift ban on private institutions
Politicians and academics in Sri Lanka want a ban on private universities to be lifted to help foster growth in the undersized higher education sector. The calls to lift the ban came as the Sinhalese...
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United voice for v-cs
A two-year restructuring exercise that has slashed the number of South Africa's higher education institutions from 36 to 23 has ended symbolically with the launch of Higher Education South Africa, a...
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Canberra
The award of a Chevening postgraduate scholarship that will allow the daughter of Alexander Downer, the Australian Foreign Minister, to study in London has led to claims that she has benefited from...
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Paris
The host country for an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development project to build better international collaboration on research into the working of the human brain will be announced in...
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McLean
The number of Graduate Management Admissions Tests taken outside the US in the first six months of 2005 is up 4.8 per cent on 2004, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council, based in...
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Melbourne
Australia's 2006 Good Universities Guide shows an increase in fee-paying degree courses costing in excess of A$100,000 (£43,000) - more than 60 will be offered to home students next year, up from 45...
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Paris
Unesco has funded a chair in the political economy of education, to be held by John Morgan, director of Nottingham University's Centre for Comparative Education Research.
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Baghdad
Deteriorating security in Iraq may delay the start of the academic year if the constitutional drafting process is upset by an increase in terrorist attacks, according to local government officials.
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Correction
Comments by John Mullarvey, chief executive of the Australian Vice-chancellors' Committee, were incorrectly attributed to Peter Høj, chief executive of the Australian Research Council, in a report on...
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Making a pig's ear of an unscientific free-for-all
Arguments for open-access publishing are simplistic and need to be rethought, argues Rene Olivieri Why can't debates over science publishing be more like... well, science? Mr Jones had a farm. One...
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Gary Day
Why the fuss over new guidelines for style and presentation? They just update E.M. Forster's advice to 'only connect' There are some people in higher education who do nothing but grumble. You should...
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Behind the stuffed goat's penis lurks ambition
Taxidermy: Stuff the world BBC Two, August 22, 9pm A desire to examine the unsheathed tip of a goat's penis is probably best kept secret. But, as Morgan Matthews's quietly excellent film Taxidermy:...
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Whose side is she on?
Dame Patricia Hodgson's appointment to the board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England last week has raised eyebrows. Dame Patricia, who will take over as principal of Newnham College,...
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One man and his boat
We were envious to discover last week that vice-chancellors own more than flashy cars - some have yachts and others planes. But it appears we misrepresented Roland Levinsky, vice-chancellor of...