Frontline lessons in human rights
Rachel Wheeler's PhD is on hold for a few weeks. In a Kosovar Albanian refugee camp near Tirana she adds two arrivals to her computer database. She is working for the Christian aid agency MedAir as a...
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Reunified students divided
Nearly a decade after German reunification, students from the east and west are still divided, according to a large-scale academic survey funded by the German government. Only 10 per cent of students...
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Male culture holds back women
Finland may have more women professors than any other country in the European Union but, at 18.4 per cent of the total, they still face gender inequality in their careers. This is the conclusion of...
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French studies get full funding
British undergraduates following the University of London French studies degree course at the British Institute in Paris will no longer face the burden of having to pay their full study costs but...
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Maoris win case on college funding
The New Zealand government could face a bill of more than NZ$60 million (Pounds 20 million) following a tribunal ruling that the Crown breached New Zealand's founding treaty by underfunding three...
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Net porn censorship plans worry academics
A decision by the Australian government to introduce censorship laws covering the internet has alarmed the nation's universities and internet service providers which fear the consequences of attempts...
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Funders map out national deal on OS data
The funding councils and Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency, have struck a deal that will make digital map data available in higher education institutions. The council's Joint...
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Secret beauty hidden on the chips
Biophysicist Michael Davidson was studying chromosomes through an incredibly high-powered microscope at Florida State University when he discovered something no scientist before him seems to have...
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Millennium millions
Anglia Polytechnic University's learning technology research centre, Ultralab, led by Stephen Heppell, will jointly administer a pilot phase of a Pounds 6 million project helping British...
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FE geared for skills
A consortium of 11 of Britain's largest further education colleges has signed a Pounds 300,000 contract with ICL, the IT services company, to deliver its CyberSkills programme to small and medium-...
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Secure future
The centre for mathematical sciences (above) being built at Cambridge University will feature a fully integrated security system built by Philips at a cost of Pounds 250,000. The system, running on...
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Kosovo strains limits of thought
While the villages burn and the bombs drop in Kosovo, another war has been waged in the virtual world of the internet. At stake is the all-important "moral high ground", and the "rationale" for...
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Hard-sell culture wins minds in Mexico
So education should be more vocational? In 1995 Monterrey Tech, a private university with 80,000 students and 30 campuses peppering the map of Mexico, discovered that 40 per cent of its graduates...
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A club is only as good as the members it attracts
The ILT must reflect the diversity within its membership and acknowledge those with proven track records, writes Clive Booth There is one sure way to success for the Institute for Learning and...
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Abolishing fees in Scotland will add to
Only after the risk of alienating voters has passed have Scotland's Labour politicians and university leaders begun to point out the disadvantages of abolishing tuition fees. There are the anomalies...