Secret surfers
Plans by Peter Mandelson to reveal "Surfball: The New 21st Century Sport" appear to be floundering. Asked by culture committee MPs probing the Dome project for details about this extraordinary new...
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Hutton's googly
Alumnus to be proud of No 184 recently launched himself on the world as a higher education policy pundit. Richard Hutton, previously known as the son of the more famous Sir Leonard and editor of the...
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'Sex with students was perk of the job'
JEAN NORRIS, whose lecturer husband has had more than one affair with a student and has now left her for one, wants to set up a support group for other women in her position. Paul Norris, a social...
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Women lose out on leisure
YOU arrive home late from a long day's lecturing. What is the first thing you do? Go to the gym or evening class? Watch television? Or start getting the children's supper ready, help them with...
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Funding threatens access aim
Widening participation is back on top of the agenda. Alan Thomson opens a series on the issue The introduction of tuition fees and the scrapping of maintenance grants will close doors to higher...
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What Romans did in war
THROUGH films such as Spartacus and Alexander the Great, Hollywood has relentlessly pushed the image of ancient Roman and Greek warfare as an unspeakably bloodthirsty affair, with literally thousands...
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Milky Way in suburbia
ASTRONOMERS have confirmed that Earth is just a little planet in the suburbs of an average galaxy. A team from Sussex and Glasgow universities has measured the size of the Milky Way and found it to...
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Thinness blights world
The global media is spreading eating disorders in non-western cultures, say Leicester University researchers. Psychiatrist Mervat Nasser, author of Culture and Weight Consciousness, claims that...
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Tidal experts fly out
THREE Coventry University researchers have been called to Papua New Guinea to help pick up the pieces following the devastating tsunami. David Smith and Alastair Dawson, leading tidal wave experts...
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Wetland trailblazers
Biologists, historians and tourism experts from the United Kingdom and Ukraine are investigating the wildlife of the largest wetland in Europe, the Pripyat marshes in northwest Ukraine. They are also...
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Child labour for family
CUSTOMS are changing in Zambia because poverty is driving families to rely on their children's income, Coventry University researchers have found. When parents divorce, children used to stay with the...
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Anti-sleaze squad sent in
THE South African government is to use new powers under the higher education act to probe allegations of mismanagement and corruption at the universities of Venda and Transkei, and Vaal Triangle...
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China struggles with jobs crisis
YOUNG people of working age in China will not be allowed to seek jobs until they complete one to three years of higher education or professional training, according to a new government ruling. The...
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Ministry roots out its moles
INDIA's education ministry is finally cracking down on "fake" universities that have mushroomed with the surge in demand for degrees. Education minister Manohar Joshi told parliament last week that...
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President orders Tajik scholars to come home
The president of Tajikistan has recalled all Tajik students and scholars attending foreign universities. His summons was quickly answered: more than 100 students have already returned from Iran. The...