Red faces over White House forecast fiasco
Behind the high-profile humiliation of journalists and pollsters who wrongly predicted the outcome of this month's US presidential election is an entire faculty of embarrassed academics whose...
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Belgrade turns again to study
Slowly and painfully, life at the University of Belgrade is returning to normal. Professors long banned from departments are returning. Student activists are again picking up their books. Scores of...
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Campus life gets easier in France
An information service open all day from 8.30am, an afternoon left free each week for sporting or cultural activities and a joint student and business club are among initiatives introduced at one...
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Protests spread across Turkey
Calls to strip Turkey's higher education authority of its powers have reached the country's parliament, which is debating legislation to give individual universities more autonomy. The 19th...
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Cash and new tool aids ILT project
Students and staff at Warrington Collegiate Institute are appreciating the value of information and learning technologies with the help of Further Education Funding Council cash and a ground-breaking...
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German dons lose now to gain later
German academics could lose the right to patent their intellectual property under proposed regulations. Education minister Edelgard Bulmahn and the education ministers of the 16 states have agreed to...
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Remote Welsh colleges put on the net
Thousands of Welsh students will to benefit from the new technologies for learning in a £5.4 million funding boost. The Welsh Learning Network infrastructure project, managed by the Welsh funding...
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Fowl play
Will Byles, right , head of computer-generated imagery at Aardman Animation, explains techniques used in the creation of the film Chicken Run to students after his lecture organised by Swansea...
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Call for fines to root out racism
Scotland's higher and further education funding councils could play a key role in stamping out racism by imposing financial penalties on universities and colleges that fail to meet set targets,...
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Latest international news
US gets medical rival to Nobel An 89-year-old industrialist has established the United States’ largest award for medical research, rivalling the Nobel Prize, with a $50 million endowment. From next...
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Shefc funds for disability access
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has earmarked more than £300,000 to help Scottish universities check how they are improving access for students with disabilities. The government is soon...
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Extra degree places promised in Northern Ireland
Higher and further education have featured strongly in Northern Ireland's programme for government. The first detailed policy document drawn up by locally elected politicians after 30 years of direct...
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Scots warned to stay vigilant on inclusion
Universities must guard against complacency in the wake of performance indicators on social inclusion, a Scottish conference on widening access heard. Bob Osborne, professor of applied policy studies...
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Analysis: 'What is your subject centre doing for you?'
That's one of the first questions Hefce chief Sir Brian Fender will be asking staff in universities he visits. Claire Sanders and Alison Utley report on the new Learning and Teaching Support network...
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In the news: Condoleezza Rice
Her name comes from the musical term "con dolcezza", to perform with sweetness, but Condoleezza Rice's performance so far has been tough in both ideas and action. She is tipped to take the post of...