Watchdog attacks quality plan
The government's red-tape watchdog has attacked funding chiefs' plans for a set of minimum standards designed to boost the quality of postgraduate research. In a letter to the Higher Education...
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Students give their seal of approval
Staff in Scotland's colleges and universities may feel increasingly beleaguered by work pressures and dwindling funds but for their students things are getting better, writes Olga Wojtas. A student...
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Lost medics' 30-year wait for BSc
A group of doctors who studied medicine at St Andrews University have finally graduated more than 30 years after beginning their course, writes Olga Wojtas. The 33 "lost medics", some of whom are...
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AHRB to set up doctoral studentships
The Arts and Humanities Research Board has invited academics to make a case for ring-fenced funding to support doctoral studentships in particular subject areas. The AHRB said that up to six...
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Scots cry of 'unfair' is put to the test
MSPs are to investigate whether Scottish universities are "crying wolf" over claims that they will lose out financially to English institutions charging top-up fees. The Scottish Parliament's newly...
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Uppsala
Uppsala University has taken over the Svedberg Laboratory from the Swedish research council, ending the laboratory's status as a national research facility. The laboratory hosts nuclear physics and...
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Madrid
The Spanish rectors' organisation has elected Juan Antonio V zquez, rector of Oviedo University, as its head by an overwhelming majority (52 votes in favour with four abstentions).
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Dhaka
Three Bangladeshi students have been sentenced to death and five others to life imprisonment for their part in the death of a student at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. The woman...
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Rabat
Moroccan security agents have interrogated University of Rabat students from Sudan, Mauritania and Comoros about links with terrorists who worshipped at the university mosque.
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Correction
Revenue from student fees in Canada grew by 135 per cent in the 1990s, not 35 per cent as reported in The THES, June .
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Shadow over Baghdad
When US marines moved into Baghdad from the east at the height of the war in Iraq, they stormed on to the University of Baghdad campus to return fire from Iraqi soldiers hiding in the empty buildings...
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Women tackle ivory tower trade-off...
Women often find an academic career incompatible with the rest of their life, according to a group of professors, students and retired academics who, in a collection of essays and poems, regret how...
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...but hit 'cement wall' objections as ad favours female applicants
A row has broken out in Denmark between government ministers over positive discrimination in an advertisement for professorships, writes Michael de Laine in Køge. The advertisement is for posts in...
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Access to funding opens up in initiative to promote EU unity studies
A range of European Union grants promoting studies of European law, politics, human rights and associated topics are to be grouped together in a programme to which any higher education institution...
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Indonesians face fees as cuts bite
Indonesia's university rectors have responded to a cut in government subsidies by introducing upfront admission fees and moving to replace the national higher education entrance examinations. The...