Flagship university is in danger of floundering
Christiana Mbengo passed her baccalaureat with flying colours. But when her civil servant father and petty trader mother told her that lean times meant her only chance of a university education was...
Christiana Mbengo passed her baccalaureat with flying colours. But when her civil servant father and petty trader mother told her that lean times meant her only chance of a university education was...
A scheme to attract top African students to universities in South Africa "and encourage student mobility on the continent generally" will begin next year, further swelling the country's rapidly...
Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania is to be the first state university in East Africa to introduce demand-driven degrees. It also plans to scrap courses that are not market-oriented and...
Luigi Berlinguer, the Italian university and schools minister who spearheaded a radical reform of Italy's higher education system, is no longer university and research minister following a government...
Criminal activity on the campus of Thessaloniki University has reached such proportions that the senate committee has decided to allow the police to enter the premises after hours. Students and...
Plans to reform France's state research bodies have caused a furore among top scientists. They fear losing autonomy by having to cooperate more closely with the universities. Claude Allegre, minister...
The official opening of the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World at Leiden University erupted into violence and chaos last week. About 200 Iranian demonstrators gathered outside the...
ART 20. The Thames and Hudson Multimedia Dictionary of Modern Art. Thames and Hudson. Pounds 59.53 +VAT (Pounds 69.95 inc. VAT). Windows 3.1+ and Macintosh OS 7.1+ CD. ISBN 00500 100152 The...
Australia's first virtual campus was launched in Melbourne this month for students undertaking technical and further education (TAFE) courses. The Aus$23 million TAFE Online 2001 project means...
A free guide to promoting sexual health via the internet has been published by the National HIV Prevention Information Service. Sexual Health in Cyberspace: Overcoming Obstacles to Promoting Health...
An interactive web databasethat recreates in virtual form the contents of a Chinese Buddhist library cave discovered in 1900 has been launched by the British Library. The International Dunhuang...
Students at Ravensbourne College and the University of Greenwich made a half-hour video about cartoonists Steve Bell, Bryan Talbot and Hunt Emerson, combining shots ofthe artists with computer...
As Art20, Thames and Hudson's multimedia dictionary of modern art, finally appears in the shops, Claire Neesham reports on its difficult journey Thames and Hudson's press release named Monday October...
Economics in universities is in a spot of trouble. For some time students have been turning away from the subject, first in schools at A level, then in degree applications. Ironically, in an age of...
Universities are getting involved in organising students' term-time employment. This is not new in respect of sandwich courses, but is now extending to casual work (pages 6 and 7). This is a grey...