Where to put all the rubbish
Jane Marshall concludes our focus on France with reports on energy management. The energy commission's search for a clean nuclear reactor is like hunting for holy grail Clean" and "non-polluting" are...
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Ouagadougou
Blaise Compaore, president of Burkino Faso, has ordered the closure of university campuses in Ouagadougou and Bobodiolasso after students supported a three-day stoppage by civil servants over the...
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Lima
Up to 850,000 dairy farmers are to benefit from a deal between Peru's Cayetano Heredia University and three major national agricultural associations to provide students at the faculty of veterinary...
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Failure to join top tier spurs Oz audits
Australian universities will be subject to regular independent audits of their teaching, learning, research and management under a plan agreed at an historic meeting of all state, territory and...
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Protest reprieve for regime
A 100-day suspension of demonstrations by students at Senegal's Cheik Anta Diop University has removed the risk of embarrassing the new regime of president Abdoulaye Wade as delegates converge on...
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Crisis looms as young blood fails to fill high posts
A lack of clear plans to replace East Africa's ageing professors, most of whom are due to retire within ten years, is becoming a major barrier to quality education. It is estimated that 60 per cent...
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Pay gap widens for US faculty
American university faculty enjoyed salary raises above inflation this year for the sixth time in the past seven years, but their pay continues to fall behind that of other highly educated...
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Fees leave Scandanavians cold
Senior civil servants from all of Scandinavia's ministries of higher education are agreed that the time is not ripe for the introduction of university tuition fees in the region. Gathered in Iceland...
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Students target private tuition
Italy's main student union has launched a national campaign against advertising by Italy's largest private tuition firm, which uses Alex Del Piero, star player of Juventus football club, and...
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Here's looking at you, squid
(Photograph) - Research students and scientists were on hand to explain the mysteries of the ocean and the creatures that inhabit it at an exhibition at Southampton University's Oceanography Centre....
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Five projects share Pounds 462,000
Tim Greenhalgh on the BT Higher Education Awards, co-sponsored by THES. Two events on the same day last week at British Telecom's London headquarters underlined the breathless pace of cultural change...
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Student insurers rebrand to cover scandalous past
France's biggest student social insurance society, tainted by fraud and corruption and the subject of official investigations for the past two years, has been relaunched with a new name and statutory...
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Historian pays the price of denial
Darijusz Ratajczak, a Polish history lecturer, has been dismissed from his post at the Opole University and banned from academic teaching for three years. A university disciplinary commission ruled...
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There is still time to mend a flawed government bill
It is becoming apparent that the government's decision to exclude higher education from plans to restructure post-16 education through the Learning and Skills bill is a serious shortcoming (page 4)....
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Members should be on the USS's conscience
Andrew Oswald's Soapbox article last week calling on the Universities Supperannuation Scheme to increase members' pensions has attracted a flurry of support (Letters, opposite). Staff at universities...