Resignations hit watchdog
The future of UK higher education's champion of integrity, accountability and academic freedom was in doubt this week after members of its governing committee resigned - in a row over integrity,...
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Specialist mediation aims to forestall court action
A specialist mediation service for university disputes to be launched next week intends to prise open the "unaccountable" world of academic decision-making, writes Phil Baty. The courts are in...
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Low grievance uptake averts need to extend Scots scheme
Scotland's pioneering student complaints system, launched for a trial period last year, has not overwhelmed the independent reviewer appointed to consider appeals. There were fears Colin MacAulay QC...
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TV 'fame' shows help Lipa recovery
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts has been swamped with applications for its dance, acting and music courses despite being dogged by financial and management problems in the past. According...
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Musicians and dancers join forces in South London merger plan
London-based Trinity College of Music and the Laban dance centre are to merge, giving students from the two disciplines the opportunity to collaborate. Under merger plans, the two institutions will...
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Learning might not be the key to peace
Education is not always helpful in alleviating the problems caused by conflict and sometimes even exacerbates the situation, an Ulster University expert has warned, writes Olga Wojtas. Alan Smith,...
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Lassies 1, Scots macho men 0
Football may be the ultimate symbol of Scottish machismo, but a Stirling University research student has uncovered evidence of women playing football as early as the 1600s. Jessica Macbeth, a PhD...
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Australia braced for national strike
The first national strike by higher education staff and students was expected to close or disrupt most of Australia's 40 universities this Thursday. Tens of thousands of members of the four staff...
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Copy wrongs
'Congratulations - you've just killed a book' is the slogan posted in Italy's universities in a bid to curb wholesale photocopying of books by students and academics, writes Paul Bompard. The...
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Physicist accused of selling secrets stands for election
The Russian physicist being tried for selling secrets to China is to put academic freedom in the political spotlight by standing for election to the state parliament on a protest ticket, writes Nick...
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Ministers forced to resign after daughter gains a place on elite course
Two senior members of the Portuguese government have resigned amid allegations that they abused their positions to secure a place at medical school for the foreign minister's daughter. Diana Martins...
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Disgruntled Princeton donor wants £300m back
Princeton University is fighting to keep an endowment worth more than $500 million (£300 million) after the donor demanded it be returned to his family's foundation. William Robertson, heir to a...
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Europe is 'threat to Russian excellence'
Two centuries of Russian academic excellence could be squandered in the rush to standardise higher education across Europe, academics have warned. Leaders of Russia's top universities voiced their...
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California
Arnold Schwarzenegger was not the only winner in the California elections. Opponents of a proposal to prevent public universities from collecting information about the ethnic origins of individuals...
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Denver
The proportion of the US population pursuing higher and further education is falling behind other industrialised countries, according to the Education Commission of the States. The non-partisan body...