Are estates fit for the future?
From now on, asset management will have to meet the the demands of environmental sustainability. Keith Blake investigates The estate management strategies of England's universities are under review...
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Environmental policies writ large on campuses
Energy efficiency is good for the environment and business, writes Camille Lane Grazing sheep may seem a strange departure for a university campus, but it is part of Sussex University's active...
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Elite in plot to launch rival to QAA
A dissident group of elite universities is hatching plans to break free from the Quality Assurance Agency’s inspection framework and set up an alternative peer-review system.The news comes as...
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Orthodox colleges approved in Israel
JERUSALEM A plan to create the first haredi (ultra-orthodox) college, with separate classes for men and women, has been approved in principle by Israel's Council for Higher Education. While separate...
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Freedom victory for Iranian scholars
TEHRAN The reformist victory in Iran's parliamentary elections has allowed a modernising role for the country's academics and universities. "This new democratic atmosphere will lead to a greater role...
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What are foundation degrees?
Educationists and employers arestruggling to define the nature and role of foundation degrees, writes Alan Thomson. The group designing the degrees held its first meeting last Friday. Its first task...
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Georgia is over-educated
TBILISI State university rectors in Georgia are seeking tighter laws on higher education accreditation in the wake of a boom in private colleges since the collapse of communism. Since 1991, more than...
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Racist web links land Swiss professor in court
BONN An academic who heads the computer systems institute at Zurich Technical University faces criminal proceedings for providing links to neo-Nazi, revisionist and racist websites from his...
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Thai MPs told to study for degrees
BANGKOK Poorly educated Thai MPs are dashing from parliamentary meetings to evening classes at a Bangkok university to study politics. New rules designed to end vote-buying, reduce the power of...
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Student porn 'mockumentary' is halted
BOSTON A student film-maker who planned to make a pornographic "mockumentary" about sex on campus ran into trouble over a "get paid to get laid" message advertised around the campus of Wesleyan...
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Higher education squeezed as Canadian income tax is cut
MONTREAL Canada's higher education sector and other hungry social programmes last month lost out to personal income tax reductions in the federal budget. Finance minister Paul Martin announced C$58...
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College heads resolve dispute
Melbourne The Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee last week settled a long-running dispute with the Copyright Agency Limited over payments worth more than A$30 million (Pounds 12 million) to...
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Setting the scene
(Photograph) - Dana Pinto of the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design with her model for Urban Odyssey at an exhibition of the work of scenography graduates at the Diorama Gallery in London
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Swapping the ghetto for the gown
Last week Alison Goddard revealed how universities are failing bright young, full-time students from poor backgrounds. This week she asks if they are doing all they can to help mature, part-time...
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Pristina
A German academic, Michael Daxner, has become the UN-appointed international administrator of Pristina University and its associated colleges. Professor Daxner says he will work to help make the...