Beach no longer a washout
Ulster University researchers have been vindicated in their "don't panic" approach to a disappearing beach in Donegal. Over the past few years, the beach at Five-Finger Strand lost all its sand, much...
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Free tuition to lure students out of cities
Russia is to offer free tuition to aspiring teachers, doctors, engineers and agricultural experts in a bid to tackle an acute shortage of essential workers in rural regions. A 5.4 million rouble (£...
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Inquiry probes 'sex and booze for sports stars'
The stakes are so high in US university sports that some schools have been caught providing star recruits with cash, flashy clothes and even cars. Now sex and alcohol might be added to the list. The...
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Prodi urges EU to give more to plug researcher brain drain
Efforts to stem the flow of young researchers from Europe to the US and to attract back some who are already there will be hampered unless European Union member states increase contributions to the...
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African virtual institute finds Australian partner
The African Virtual University is to expand its operations and offer places to students in 22 of the continent's countries, as part of a four-year partnership with RMIT University in Melbourne....
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SA plans to rein in distance learning
South Africa has proposed a code of conduct that will clamp down on open and distance-learning courses across Africa that are found to be profit-driven or of dubious quality and relevance. Kader...
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Utrecht
Utrecht University is to draw up guidelines to test whether a member of staff set a disputed theory properly in context. The university admitted that the lecturer in question failed to tell students...
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Minsk
European and US diplomats have protested about Belarusian government interference in the independent European Humanities University. They also protested about the closure of the International...
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Conakry
Demonstrating students arrested while demanding better scholarships and more jobs for unemployed graduates face trial for subversion, Guinea's interior ministry says.
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Luxembourg
François Tavenas, founding rector of the fledgling Universite du Luxembourg, has died aged 62. His death came as the university was due to discuss a strategic plan for negotiations with the...
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Harare
The Zimbabwean government has tripled loans and grants to university and polytechnic students, only four months after the last increase. The country last month recorded an annual inflation rate of...
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Bristol
The universities of Bergen, Oslo and Utrecht have joined the 13 existing members of the Worldwide Universities Network, a collaboration of research-led universities in Europe, the US and China. In...
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Lusaka
Zambian university lecturers are refusing to teach until pay increases awarded at professorial levels are extended to them. As the University of Zambia opened for the new academic year, university...
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Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Faculty at Acadia University have gone on indefinite strike after talks broke down in a dispute over salaries and related issues. Classes were cancelled on Monday and academics were locked out of...
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Salsa it's not, but we can teach Latins our moves
UK universities are developing strong regional partnerships and could export this expertise, says Deian Hopkin Latin America is the flavour of the month, to judge by the latest series of Auf...