Uyo
The University of Uyo in Nigeria is to protest to Britain at the refusal of visas for five students and a lecturer to attend a seminar on higher education finance in London. Vice-chancellor Akpan Hogan Ekpo said the British high commission feared that the students might not return to Nigeria.

Washington, DC
A United States federal court of appeal has ruled unconstitutional the University of Georgia's admissions process because it gave an advantage to non-white students.

Brasilia
Ahead of this week's United Nations conference on racism in Durban, Brazilian education minister Paulo Renato Souza has announced free pre-university admission courses reserved for black students to help raise the low percentage at the country's universities. Mr Souza is negotiating $10 million (£6.9 million) from the Inter-American Development Bank to finance the courses.

Johannesburg
South African student leaders called on students to join this week's national two-day strike against privatisation organised by the trade union organisation Cosatu. They said privatisation meant families could not afford the escalating costs of higher education.

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Khartoum
Riot police used tear gas and batons this week to disperse Sudanese university students demonstrating at a doubling of bus fares.

Montreal
Two Concordia University student leaders have been expelled after allegedly spray-painting anti-Israeli slogans on the Canadian university's property.

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Mexico City
Mexican president Vicente Fox has confirmed that the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico has been infiltrated by subversives responsible for recent bomb attacks.

Washington, DC
Per Pindstrup-Andersen, head of the non-profit thinktank International Food Policy Research Institute, has won the World Food Prize Foundation's main award of $250,000 (£172,000), ahead of publication of the institute's report on food production prospects until 2020.