Students get £2.6m in aid after oil spill
The Spanish government has backed an aid package for Galician students affected by the Prestige oil spill in northwestern Spain. The initiative, which would provide cash for local universities to...
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Danish dropouts blame teachers
Four out of ten students who started at Copenhagen University in 2000 dropped out or changed course because of poor teaching, a survey carried out by the university has found. A similar percentage...
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'Black day' as Leipzig rector resigns in church protest
The rector of Germany's Leipzig University has stepped down in protest at the regional government's decision to rebuild a 13th-century church on campus. Volker Bigl, elected rector in 1997, carried...
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Italy to ditch European degree in overhaul
Italian education minister Letizia Moratti plans to abandon the recently introduced three-plus-two-year degree, based on the "European degree" structure to which much of Europe is committed under the...
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Hong Kong looks to private sector for aid
Hong Kong's universities are under pressure to develop new streams of income as the government plans to make cuts to its higher education budget. Investment in the sector has fallen by 10 per cent...
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Canadian school tackles shortage of rural doctors
A medical school in Canada's frozen north is consulting local aboriginal populations and educators from as far away as the Australian outback as it carves out a unique curriculum. The Northern...
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'I told you so,' says Randall
Poor teaching standards are going undetected in English universities because vice-chancellors avoided the new teaching inspection regime, the former quality watchdog has warned. Analysis shows that...
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Three-way battle to be chancellor of Oxford
Three hats are in the ring in the contest to be the next chancellor of Oxford University. Chris Patten, the European Union's external affairs commissioner, is the favourite. He said: "Higher...
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V-c quits after rough ride at helm of Botswanan institute
A US academic has stepped down after five turbulent years as vice-chancellor of the University of Botswana, the only university in the small southern African state. Sharon Siverts was appointed in...
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Why has Clarke thrown us to market forces?
The government's obsession with reform of public services will lead to no good, insists Malcolm McVicar As part of its crusade to reform public services, the government has obviously decided that it...
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Bogus boycott
German academics are boycotting their British counterparts in protest at the British government's policy on Iraq, a letter published in last week's Jewish Chronicle claims. On investigation, however...
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Puppetmaster's plan?
Meanwhile education secretary Chizzly Clunk - billed as having "a brief to spruce up higher education with a view to a quick sale" - was apparently spotted at the University College of St Jude's last...
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From Yale straight to jail
A film script in the making - but we don't imagine people will be lining up to get the part of Tonica Jenkins, who was rumbled after she failed to make the grade as a graduate student at Yale...
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Don's diary: canberra's blazing black saturday
Friday Very hot today - more than 35C. Half the Australian National University loses electricity due to fire damage in the Namadgi national park. The smoke haze from distant bushfires, which has...
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Gats threat is lifted - for now
British universities will not be opened up to the global market under the current world trade talks, the European Commission has announced. But union leaders warned this week that research could be...