In the news: Helen Aspell
Helen Aspell, who is challenging the incumbent Owain James for the National Union of Students presidency, looks set to put up a tough fight. Next week's national conference in Blackpool will be the...
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On the move
The University of Wales Institute, Cardiff , has promoted the following to professorship: David Botterill , director of research and enterprise at the Welsh School of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure...
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World View: Support frontline scholars
As violence again racks the Balkans, academics in Macedonia and the former Soviet bloc need our intellectual and scientific aid, writes Tim Unwin. Tension in the air was palpable as my flight from...
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World watch
Brussels Macedonia's unofficial Albanian-taught University of Tetovo is to receive an additional e5 million (£3.1 million) from the European Union. EU foreign ministers called on ethnic-Albanian...
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Eyewitness: Putin forces pace in new spy mania
The chill of Russia's new information security doctrine is being felt in a regional capital outside Moscow, where Igor Sutyagin, a researcher who specialised in arms control issues at Moscow's USA-...
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Quality control agency delayed
Delays in appointments to the governing board of Australia's new University Quality Agency have put back the timetable for audits to begin by several months. The first audits were due to start this...
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New Zealand's radical rethink wins over critics
Universities have given a cautious welcome to a watershed report on the future of New Zealand's higher education institutions. The Tertiary Education Advisory Commission has advised the government to...
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Nigerian dons back legal action in US against junta
Nigeria's university community has welcomed legal action in the United States against three of the country's former military rulers. Generals Ibrahim Babangida, Muhammadu Buhari and Abdulsalaami...
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Asmal to overhaul study aid scheme
South Africa's student financial aid scheme, which this year will spend R600 million (£26 million) supporting more than 81,000 needy scholars, is to be reviewed under education minister Kader Asmal's...
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Boost in grant has strings
Norway is to increase the maximum grant available to full-time students by almost 20 per cent to NKr80,000 (£6,200) a year -but there are strings attached. Currently, students receive 30 per cent of...
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Sleepy rioters not up to much
A dawn raid has ended a two-day student occupation of several faculties at Rome's La Sapienza University, Europe's largest campus. Leftwing students were protesting against a 70 per cent increase in...
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Gulf states go in search of a future that has power to preserve the past
The Gulf states are in search of a university system that keeps pace with their prosperity and populations but does not destroy their Arab heritage, a Unesco conference in Oman heard last week. The...
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Indignant staff take to the street
Strikes and demonstrations by students and staff at universities specialising in arts and human sciences have highlighted their growing indignation at lack of resources. Last week, 1,300 students and...
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Austrian fee plan gets finishing touches
Austrian education minister Elisabeth Gehrer has presented the final proposals for the planned introduction of tuition fees for all students from autumn. According to the plan, students from Austria...
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Alliance ready to take on its rival
An international network of universities is preparing a series of special online courses largely geared at the Asian market. A meeting of the ten members of the Global University Alliance in...