Skopje
Student complaints have prompted a Macedonian university to pulp a new politics textbook written by three of its professors because it described Nato and the US as the "world's leading terrorists"....
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Budapest
Plans to privatise Hungary's universities and higher education colleges have raised fears of job losses and a narrowing of the range of subjects on offer. The country's Trade Union of Higher...
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Beijing
After cosmonauts and astronauts come yuhangyuan . China launched its bid to become the third country to send a man into space on Wednesday. The Shenzhou 5 spacecraft carried a 38-year-old fighter...
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Charitable connections keep our science strong
Proposals to remove charity income from funding formulas bode ill for vital research, says Mark Walport This time last year charities were feeling rather upbeat about the future funding of university...
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Alison Wolf
Entry decisions based on points are a minefield and will not work in an admissions system run on a shoestring A few years ago, at an Australian sandstone (read Russell Group) university, I was...
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Don's diary: games and gold medals in Mind
Friday All keyed up for tomorrow's start of the Mind Sports Olympiad - an annual games festival in which all the contests are thinking games and competitions using other mental skills. Anyone may...
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Honoured with a whipping
Hats off to Bob Stone. The professor of interactive multimedia systems at the University of Birmingham has received the unusual distinction of being made an honorary Cossack for his services to...
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A way ahead for wayward birds
A novel application has emerged from the work of Yohsuke Kamide, from Nagoya University in Japan, who has developed a system that tracks variations in the Earth's magnetic field caused by subatomic...
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Can cook, won't pay
TV chef Clarissa Dickson Wright, the student-elected rector of Aberdeen University, has an unconventional solution to student debt. The star of Two Fat Ladies - who is filing for bankruptcy - is...
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Cheers! Students are back
Drinks companies are counting their takings after hundreds of freshers' week events up and down the country. Last week, Inventive Leisure, the company behind the Revolution vodka-bar chain, announced...
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Why I ... think the Booker is relevant to the study of literature
Does the Booker Prize have any relevance to the academic study of literature? The answer is a complicated yes. Winning novels, and many shortlisted ones, constitute a chief part of the (non-US)...
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Don't lose MSc magic
Undergraduate top-ups lead the news but masters students will be hit harder, says Bruce Yardley Mention "fees" to most people and the first thing they think about is the cost of undergraduate courses...
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Top billing for bad creditors
While universities have learnt to generate income, they can be slow to collect the cash, says Peter Buckle English universities earn more than £2 billion each year from commercial activities such as...
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How to avoid falling into the parent trap
Students today come with mum and dad attached. Valerie Atkinson offers some advice on how to deal with them. Sometimes, when a student's parent contacts a departmental office, there is no alternative...
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Jobwatch: Lancaster begins Rae push
The university's history and English departments are revving up their recruitment drive in pursuit of the much coveted 6* status in the next research assessment exercise. Caroline Davis reports....