Colombo
Devapriya Seneviratne Epitawatte, vice-chancellor of Sri Jayawardhanapura University, has been sacked by Sri Lankan president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga after the launch of a death fast by a...
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Winnipeg
Lloyd Axworthy, the former Canadian foreign minister who made his name in international landmine legislation, has been appointed president of the University of Winnipeg, where he taught and studied.
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Tirana
Albania, which collapsed into bloody civil unrest in the 1990s after a botched giant pyramid scheme, is to establish its first university courses on business ethics through the Organisation for...
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Free your minds to see benefits of free trade
Opening universities to competition through Gats offers advantages to everyone, argues J. R. Shackleton Senior academics and politicians have lined up with the usual anti-globalisation suspects in...
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Student focus on degrees puts FE colleges off target
Further education colleges are facing an identity crisis as more students opt for higher education courses in academic subjects rather than lower level vocational qualifications, research reveals....
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Cash fillip for apprenticeships
The government is set to spend another £40 million to promote ailing modern apprenticeships, as new figures reveal that it is falling further behind its targets for take-up of the flagship programme...
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Sorry, Mr Bush, the Romans got there before you
The Romans gave the world its first real taste of globalisation, according to a new theory to be outlined this weekend. A reassessment of the trials and triumphs of the ancient empire-builders...
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Gary Day
Intellectual battles should mean stimulating encounters with students rather than colleagues cutting one another in corridors It used to be quite common for people in English departments not to talk...
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Don's diary: Electrifying elections
Monday I'm here in Moscow as an international observer at the Russian parliamentary elections. My hotel is the Rossiya, just off Red Square. My room overlooks the river, and beyond it is the power...
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Gong but not forgotten
As the latest batch of gongs are conferred on the great and the good, former rector of the London Institute John McKenzie, who recently stood down as chairman of Leeds United Football Club, received...
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Bubbling over with flavour
As the Diary welcomes in the New Year there comes scientific proof of the wine tasters' adage that the best champagne has small bubbles and lots of them. Researchers at the University of Reims...
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Short-lived success
Those popular and successful types who were elected class president in medical school may not be so fortunate after all. A University of Toronto study found that they will die 2.4 years sooner than...
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Model students wanted
A model agency has launched a recruitment drive targeted at students. MOT Models is searching for hopefuls aged between 18 and 22, with a poster and flier campaign bearing the slogan "Are you model...
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Why I think top-up fees are irrelevant to the future of higher education
The government's policy for variable university fees is not relevant to the real problems of higher education in the UK. Vice-chancellors have persuaded government that they are seriously short of...
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Come on, celebrate!
Rugby got us dancing in the streets, so why can't we revel in science? asks Peter Cotgreave If the Beagle 2 lander had worked as planned after reaching Mars last week, it would have had to calibrate...