Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin's election as Russian president promises to be a boon for analysts as they dissect his chances of hauling Russia into the 21st century. The taciturn former KGB spy has given little...
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Yellow Springs, Ohio
The bodies of an exchange student and a former student from Antioch College have been discovered in Costa Rica. Both had been shot. Emily Howell, 19, had been working on a photography project there...
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Lisbon
European Union leaders agreed at the Lisbon special economic summit last month to halve by 2010 the number of 18 to 24-year-olds who are not in further education and training. They also agreed to...
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St Petersburg
Yurii Savelev, rector of the Baltic State Technological University, has been suspended on suspicion of allowing foreign students, including Iranians, to study missile-related technology. The Russian...
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Vienna
The World Jewish Congress reports that the Gestapo stole almost 200,000 books from Jews in the war. Some were transferred to Germany and about 6,000 books were returned to their owners or families....
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Fears as Milosevic ally lands law chair
An extremist former paramilitary leader who is now deputy prime minister of Serbia has begun work as a law professor at Belgrade University. The appointment of Vojislav Seselj, leader of the ultra-...
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Peace found at conference
A Haifa University conference last month served as a microcosm of what the Middle East could be like if there were a working peace. Academics from Jordan, Egypt, the Palestinian Authority, Europe and...
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Brain drain threat fails to faze Malta
With European Union membership just round the corner, Malta is undergoing a thorough screening. Thirty-one areas of life are being assessed to see if they are compatible with EU regulations. Change...
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Turkish, Greek exchanges hold hope of entente cordiale
Turkish and Greek students will bury the hatchet when they meet in Ankara later this month in a cultural exchange designed to improve relations between them. Twenty-two Greek students will visit...
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NZ suffered 'state control'
New Zealand universities have suffered unprecedented attacks on academic freedom by central government over the past 13 years, a union inquiry has claimed. Donald Savage, commissioned by the...
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Thai two refuse to end gift culture
Two Thai state universities have refused to abolish discriminatory quota systems that allow children of the rich and famous to enter feeder schools ahead of their more intelligent rivals. Despite a...
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Anti-gay students lose fees case
Universities can continue to collect mandatory student fees to subsidise campus groups, even from students who object to the groups' positions or activities, the United States supreme court has ruled...
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Mr University pours scorn on 'nobby' Oxford
A Queensland inventor has changed his name by deed poll to Oxford University in an attempt to prove he has the right to keep the domain name www.oxford-university.com. Mr University, who answers the...
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Japanese dons cut state ties
The bid to promote much-needed enterprise and entrepreneurship in Japanese universities has been boosted by new legislation in the Diet that will convert Japan's 99 state-run national universities...
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Plymouth simulates a dog-eat-dog e-world
Corporate managers could soon have a new simulation weapon in the daily dog fight for e-business, thanks to research by the University of Plymouth. A business school team led by Graham Winch,...