Do more for older students, v-c says
The Government, academics and universities must do more for older students, a leading vice-chancellor said this week after figures revealed evidence of an increasingly ageing student body. Dame...
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NUS president may contest Clarke seat
Students' leader Kat Fletcher may stand as an anti-tuition fees candidate against Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, at the next general election, it emerged this week. Ms Fletcher, president...
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Sector seeks cross-party support in US
American universities face, at best, four years of stalemate with the re-election of George W. Bush and a Republican majority in the US House of Representatives, according to university lobbyists and...
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Joint project a first
An Australian state government has negotiated a deal to establish the country's first branch campus of an American university. South Australia's Labor Premier, Mike Rann, last week signed an...
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Supply of Arabic teachers impeded as demand soars
World events have fuelled growing demand for Arabic language courses at American universities, but visa restrictions have created a shortage of people who can teach it, writes Jon Marcus in Boston....
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370kph electric car is left standing
More than six months after a Japanese university professor unveiled the fastest car in the world - running on lithium ion batteries - only the troubled Mitsubishi Motors has expressed interest in the...
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Bologna is 'on track'
The Bologna Process of convergence of higher education systems across Europe is largely on track but more resources are needed to ensure that its universities keep up with the rest of the world,...
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Spain's digital divide
A Spanish rector has criticised the digital divide between Spanish universities as a university in Barcelona was named host to Europe's most powerful computer. The supercomputer, to be known as Mare...
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Overcrowding crisis in Austria
Austria's universities are facing the worst overcrowding problems in the country's history. School pupils who make the grade are entitled to a university place. But overcrowding is so bad that many...
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Alison Wolf
'Have you noticed how the idea has spread that academics might be "overteaching" at the expense of activities such as packing in more students?' Teaching, the original raison d'êre of universities,...
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My revolting past
After a kidnap false alarm, the appeal of Cambridge palled for Haleh Afshar, but 1960s York reignited her revolutionary zeal Revolutionary activity got Haleh Afshar into trouble as an eight-year-old...
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Supervisors' super prizes
Students may be customers now, but in these days of sliding standards it seems some departments have no qualms about offering a service that is more Woolworths than Harvey Nichols. An official memo...
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Chief executive put in hot seat
Some vice-chancellors might use a spot on a public panel alongside Sir Howard Newby, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, as a chance to do some thorough sucking up....
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Sterling effort losing steam
The crusade by Michael Sterling, vice-chancellor of Birmingham University, to derail the next research assessment exercise seems in danger of running out of steam. Backing from the top end of the...
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Union president turns to drink
Pubs have long been believed to have a magnetic quality when it comes to students - from the thirstiest fresher to the president of the National Union of Students. Kat Fletcher, the feisty president...