Glittering prizes
John Kenneth Galbraith, professor emeritus of Harvard University, will receive the honorary degree of doctor of science from the London School of Economics on Monday. Liverpool John Moores University...
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Eye witness
In an increasingly global market, students are often bewildered by similarities between the names of the universities competing to recruit them. Australian students can be excused for confusing the...
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Votes for a brighter future
From the world's newest democracy, Neil Kemp and Geoff Evans report on the state of education in Indonesia. Indonesians were spoilt for choice in this month's elections. Ballot papers listed no fewer...
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Rome
Italy's equal opportunities minister, Laura Balbo, has called a meeting of university rectors and higher education ministry senior staff to press for the introduction of gender studies within history...
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Oz gets tough on drop-outs
The Australian government is expected to adopt a tougher line with the nation's universities over the high drop-out rate among their students and the cost this imposes on the taxpayer - and the...
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US enlists tell-tale drink law
American universities have a potent weapon in their war on students who drink under age or use illegal drugs on campus: they can legally tell the student's parents. New government regulations allow...
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Climbdown over tuition fee rise
Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM) has backed down over a plan to impose higher tuition fees and has suggested that increases be paid voluntarily. University rector Francisco Barnes de...
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Responsibility for Bett rests with the Treasury
Last week the prime minister, Tony Blair, called for increased recruiting of overseas students. Was this coincidence? Overseas students have been one of the main sources of salvation for British...
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Unesco needs more than lukewarm UK support
As the World Science Conference opens in Budapest, Sagarika Dutt says Britain's half-hearted backing of Unesco could hamper the organisation's work In July 1997, Britain returned to Unesco, from...
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Science careers
Education opportunities for the developing world and jobs for scientists are on the agenda at the World Conference on Science. The World Conference on Science, which starts tomorrow in Budapest, will...
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Instruments lab leads Cardiff to shoot for stars
Scientists in Wales want to keep Britain a leader in astronomical instrumentation. Iola Smith reports. The secrets of the hidden universe are the target of Wales's newest and perhaps oddest factory:...
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NIH joins research freedom debate
The main United States government agency overseeing academic research has proposed guidelines that would discourage scholars from accepting some research contracts. It aims to thwart confidentiality...
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Stroke recovery hope
Salvaging brain cells immediately after a stroke could increase the chances of a full recovery, scientists at Manchester University say. Nancy Rothwell, Medical Research Council professor in...
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Play centres are the place for parents
Parents are moving away from using traditional play areas for their children and opting for the new range of commercial play centres springing up around the country, according to a study out this...
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Pill users threatened by antibiotics in A&E
Women on the pill are being endangered by accident and emergency doctors who do not alert them of the danger of using antibiotics alongside oral contraceptives. A study in Buckinghamshire and south-...