Africa to share vision with G8
The president of Tanzania, Benjamin Mkapa, is to press other African heads of state to appeal for G8 involvement in revitalising Africa's universities in an address at this month's African Union...
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'Fossilised' institute faces rejig
Europe's largest research institution, France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), faces its biggest reorganisation since it was established more than 65 years ago. Bernard...
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India to raise global profile
Members of the Indian Civil Service were known as "heaven born" in the time of the Raj - once in, nothing was beyond the reach of this privileged class. Today, the term is applied to graduates of the...
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China goes fishing for more undergraduates - in Egypt
China and Egypt have agreed to set up a university in Cairo with classes taught almost entirely in Chinese. The Egyptian Chinese University (ECU), the first institute of its kind in the Middle East,...
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Research fund risk in Europe budget wrangle
The European Parliament last week voted overwhelmingly to back European Commission plans to double the Seventh Framework Programme's budget. The move came amid appeals from Europe's universities to...
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Melbourne's private affair ends in red ink
Australia's first private university set up by a public institution is to close after eight years and losses of at least A$20 million (£8.4 million). When Alan Gilbert, the University of Melbourne's...
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Patriot game theory
The academic and Swiss national whose US visa was revoked after he was appointed to a faculty post in the US last autumn had his chance to address his peers last weekend. Tariq Ramadan spoke at the...
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All change by degrees in Sweden
Swedish Education Minister Leif Pagrotsky has announced major changes to the country's degree structure after last month's meeting of European education ministers in Bergen, Norway, writes Jon...
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If it affects students, it matters to the academy
Teaching and research are integral to higher education, which must refocus on the student, says Paul Ramsden The opening of the Higher Education Academy building in York next Tuesday by Bill Rammell...
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Nancy Rothwell
Explaining science to the public can be rewarding and valuable, but don't expect an easy ride - especially from the kids Communication with the public about scientific issues was once largely a hobby...
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Dylan Evans: not a nerd in sight
"No nerds allowed" declared the poster announcing FameLab at the Cheltenham Science Festival on Saturday. The six finalists in this talent competition for budding communicators gave their...
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Deep, dark union secrets
Officials at the National Union of Students are preparing to clear out their Holloway Road headquarters in London ready for a move to a new building in Camden. A few brave souls have ventured into...
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Asbo attire
Is there an antisocial behaviour order waiting to happen in the pages of the Alumnus Chronicle , the graduate magazine of St Andrews? An advertisement in the latest edition invites graduates to buy a...
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Royal flushed with success
But one St Andrews graduate unlikely to end up being banned from a shopping mall for hoodie wearing is Prince William. The prince is already being dubbed "William the Wise" by some commentators for...
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A town-gown dressing down?
Universities should get more involved in the life of their regions, or so the Government seems to think. But rather than summon vice-chancellors to Whitehall for a lecture - or a ticking-off - the...