Scots fight fee proposals
The student presidents of 13 Scottish universities and colleges are lobbying the government against its "morally indefensible" proposals for tuition fees for Scottish honours degrees. The Scottish...
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Draft dodgers unearthed
Armenia's ministry of defence is clamping down on young men who have enrolled as postgraduate students in order to avoid military service. The tiny land-locked country in the turbulent Caucasus is...
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Fee refusniks take to the tennis court
Protests over a surprise rise in tuition fees at Belarus State University in Minsk have taken a sporting turn after the presidentially-appointed rector accused students of playing at politics....
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Student poverty data disputed
FRENCH students are not so badly off, some interpreters of a large-scale survey have claimed. The survey by the Observatoire de la Vie Etudiante, which monitors student conditions, looked at student...
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Italians lash out at lazy lecturers
Italy's universities have come under fire from Luciano Violante, president of the chamber of deputies and a key political figure. "The universities cannot just be machines that churn out exams and...
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Cult violence hits campus
AT least seven students from Nigeria's Federal University of Port Harcourt have died within a year in mysterious circumstances. They are believed to be victims of warring between secret campus cults...
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Oz government promises more money for R&D
The Australian government has promised to spend $555 million (Pounds 225 million) on industrial research and development over five years as part of a $1.26 billion aid package for the nation's...
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US institutions entice old staff to leave early
The University of Pittsburgh has become the latest research university in the United States to offer a retirement plan intended to ease out its oldest faculty staff. From January 1, for just three...
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China turns to loans to aid poor students
Student loans will play a key role in China's efforts to create an efficient financial aid system for its 560,000 poor university and college students. A State Education Commission report says that...
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Black v-c pans race policy on teachers
The vice chancellor of the University of Cape Town, Mamphela Ramphele, has stung the South African government with a public attack on its attempts to increase the proportion of black teachers at...
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Obolensk begs for lifeline
CRISIS-RIDDEN scientific cities in Russia are lobbying the Kremlin for a legal lifeline to save them from total collapse. The Association of Scientific Towns of Russia is putting pressure on federal...
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Pisa puts quarriers at cutting edge
ITALY's Carrara quarriers have supplied the world with white marble to build monuments for millennia but modern life has blunted their cutting edge. The craftsmen who directed the quarrying and...
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A clash of culture vultures
THE ADOPTION of a still unrecognised three-year "short degree" in cultural heritage studies at the universities of Florence and Udine in October has fuelled a heated debate on the merits of combining...
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Questions of responsibility
The Quality Assessment Agency inquiry at Thames Valley University, the debate about Oxbridge college fees and the publication of the Higher Education Quality Council/QAA continuation audit reports on...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: of social, economic and political studies first degrees awarded by UK higher education institutions: 4.4 per cent were first...