Fujimori health care plan sweetens budget
PAY rises for lecturers and professors at Peruvian state universities were ruled out this year by the president at the same time as he revealed the introduction of free health insurance for students...
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Gap year lures best brains
PHILLIPS Academy, founded during the American Revolution, is consistently rated one of the best high schools in the United States. Its students go on to the top colleges and universities. Thirty-one...
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Modern melting pots
Rebecca Warden talks to student leaders about their lives in Latin America UNIVERSITIES in Latin America are facing up to the challenges of modernisation. Some countries, with Chile and Brazil in the...
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Hungary faces ire of World Bank
THE INTRODUCTION of tuition fees for higher education was one of the less pleasant features of post-communist life in Hungary. The decision of the new Hungarian government partially to eliminate them...
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'Day of Learning' cancelled
September 1, the "Day of Learning", has for decades marked the opening of the academic year in Russia. But this year 17 regions have decided to defer the return to class until the arrears of lecturer...
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Tuition fees ban turns into an election issue
GERMANY's Social Democrats have promised a nationwide ban on student fees if they win the general election on September . A new Social Democrat government would alter the framework law on higher...
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Kosovar students jailed
A Serbian-run court in Prizren, Kosovo, jailed nine Kosovar-Albanian students on charges of "terrorism" in late August. The nine were students of the Xhedet Doda college of education and active in...
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American's thesis on a manly sport
popular interest in mountain climbing has inspired an American academic to conduct research this summer into British mountaineers who, he says, started climbing not only to demonstrate their manhood...
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Siena's Palio horses 'doped'
The former rector of the University of Siena, and a former mayor of the Tuscan city, has accused some of the trainers of the horses that compete in the traditional "Palio" race in Siena's Piazza del...
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Stelvio, the university for ski instructors
With pardonable hyperbole, the "happy few" who work on the Stelvio glacier in the Alps between May and November proudly call themselves "The World's University of Skiing", an elite consortium of ski...
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Think your way out
Higher education feels threatened on many fronts but by far the greatest danger is complacency, argues Kate Jenkins. Complaints of government interference must not sidetrack institutions from their...
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The need for an academic ombudsman
The settling of academic disputes by universities alone has always been a difficult process. John Griffith argues the case for an independent watchdog Academic institutions are notorious for their...
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Forging better research and policy links
Millions of pounds are spent on university research into raising standards in schools. So why isn't it happening? Jim Hillage suggests a way forward "Do you really think research can influence...
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Watching Australia's fee fracas
It was going to be a proud day for Australian universities. Our very own student funding system, the Higher Education Contribution Scheme, was supposed to herald a new age in British higher education...
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Regulating the diet of digital burgers
The average Briton spends more time watching TV than doing anything else other than sleeping - 25 and a half hours per week to be precise. Admittedly, my average Brit is a mean not a median; but, if...