Restorers return to glory
Three years ago, Rome's once-glorious Central Restoration Institute seemed doomed to slide into apathy and mediocrity, a victim of mismanagement and of appointments dictated by politics rather than...
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Fatah registers council victory
THE PRO-FATAH shabiba (youth branch) emerged victorious from this month's student council elections at Bir Zeit University in Ramallah in the West Bank. The clear endorsement of Fatah and the pro-...
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Poll halts reform of student support
THE REFORM of the student support system in France has been shelved following the snap call of parliamentary elections. President Jacques Chirac's decision to seek a new mandate came as pressure...
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Business schools set up quality mark
A group of top European business schools this week launched a European Quality Improvement System which aims to establish a clear and internationally recognised elite within the business school...
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Noah's Ark judge fears opening of the floodgates
ON THE final day of a court hearing that has become known across Australia as the "Noah's Ark case", the judge questioned whether the federal court in Sydney should have been involved and asked if...
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Eased medics' entry rattles bodies in HK
HONG KONG'S legislative council last month voted to ease restrictions which would have forced medical students who had graduated overseas to take a further examination before practising in Hong Kong...
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40 years and he's back for more
A German court has ruled that a university cannot bar a student even though he has been studying for 40 years without ever obtaining a degree. The University of Freiburg, in southwest Germany, had...
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Postgrad cash to go to high scorers
CASH for postgraduate research students will be confined to high-scorers in the recent research assessment exercise, under new funding plans. The decision boosts established research departments and...
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Balance athletes, Brown told
The United States Supreme Court last month declined to hear an appeal from Brown University against a lower court's ruling that the university discriminated illegally against its women athletes. The...
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Australian visas on tight rein in Beijing
AUSTRALIA is losing tens of millions of dollars each year because of federal government limits on study visas for students from mainland China. Although the government estimates that foreign fee-...
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Official line set on new loans
A DRAFT white paper just released on higher education seeks to bind South Africa's fragmented post-school sector into a single system, rapidly expand student numbers and develop greater state control...
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No end in sight for York strike
A faculty strike at one of Canada's largest universities has gone on for more than five weeks and an end to it seems far off now that the administration has rejected binding arbitration. Full-time...
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You're 404, Baldwin, get a phat guide
Contemplating a college exchange programme in the United States? As in all foreign travel, it is handy to have a phrase book for the local lingo. But Berlitz guides are of limited help. Da Bomb! Dis...
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All Cliffs shifted off shelves
Prodded by a faculty petition, Villanova University in Pennsylvania has banned the sale of Cliffs Notes, popular digests of literary classics critics say are used by students to avoid reading the...
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Think big and move for more mergers
Why are there so many universities in the United Kingdom? By this question I do not mean to imply that there are too many students, as some commentators claim. On the contrary, I have argued for some...