Findings: My husband made me do it
Men who drink heavily turn their newlywed wives towards alcohol, according to research. In a study that examined the influence that husbands and wives had on each other's alcohol consumption,...
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Scots lag behind on spending
Funding increases for Scottish higher education are set to lag dramatically behind spending plans south of the border, a Scottish parliamentary committee was told this week. A briefing paper for the...
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Strategy 'ignores' HE role in skills provision
The government's skills strategy is disjointed and incomplete because it ignores higher education, the University Vocational Awards Council has said. The strategy fails to recognise the contribution...
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Regulator intervention key to wider access
The government's aims for widening participation in higher education will not be met unless a wider range of students is targeted and the proposed access regulator is given stronger powers of...
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Moscow boasts model students
Not many student job agencies boast a cover girl on their books, but Moscow's Studenchesky Stroitelnyi Otryad (Student Building Group) is different from most. Daria Sobol, a 22-year-old student at...
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Jesse Jackson backs Yale strike
The Reverend Jesse Jackson and US Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean have lent their support to efforts to resolve a strike over pay and pensions by workers at Yale University that...
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Japan's exam policy 'racist'
Japan's national universities want Korean and Chinese high-school graduates to be given the same admission concessions as those graduates of western-accredited international high schools. Earlier...
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Hall crisis hits overseas bid
Student unions in Germany have warned the education ministry not to over-promote a multimillion-euro international marketing campaign without first ensuring the country's cities can accommodate an...
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ACU: Delegates split over free trade in courses
David Jobbins and John O'Leary report on the Association of Commonwealth Universities conference in Belfast. As trade ministers prepare to review progress towards the goal of unfettered trade in...
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ACU: University isn't a hiding place
David Jobbins and John O'Leary report on the Association of Commonwealth Universities conference in Belfast. Universities in the world's trouble spots cannot act as islands of tranquility separated...
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ACU: SA to assist foreign students
David Jobbins and John O'Leary report on the Association of Commonwealth Universities conference in Belfast. South Africa is to subsidise the study costs of international postgraduates who enrol at...
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ACU: UK shifts focus of overseas policy
David Jobbins and John O'Leary report on the Association of Commonwealth Universities conference in Belfast. Ministers are preparing a shake-up of UK educational aid, education secretary Charles...
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ACU: 'Ethics must shape global future'
David Jobbins and John O'Leary report on the Association of Commonwealth Universities conference in Belfast. Former United Nations human-rights commissioner Mary Robinson told the ACU conference that...
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Don't concentrate, it's bad for research health
Cutting funding for departments rated 4 and under is sorely misguided and will stifle progress, says Rita Gardner One matter that really irritates the government is academics' lack of public...
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Irish scrap undergraduate medicine
Ireland is to switch to graduate-only entry to medicine and other healthcare courses in a radical break with the pattern in the rest of Europe. Education minister Noel Dempsey announced plans for...