Media courses scrapped in shake-up at BFI
The British Film Institute is pulling out of its involvement in providing media degree courses as part of a big shake-up of its education programme. The institute currently delivers an MA in film and...
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Abusers created early
A violent early childhood may cause adolescent boys, who were sexually abused, to abuse other children, according to a study by David Skuse of the Institute of Child Health and researchers from Great...
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Transplant division
HOSPITAL doctors, GPs and the public need to agree a set of ethical priorities for the allocation of organ transplants, conclude researchers from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. James...
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Spooked by vibrations
Low-frequency sound waves could explain ghostly hauntings, according to Coventry University researchers. Vic Tancy and Tony Lawrence found that trapped sound waves in a laboratory reputed to be...
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Watch that bend!
There would be fewer road accidents if we knew more about the geometry of bends in the road, researchers at Middlesex University Business School have concluded. Compiling road accident data with...
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Death knell for clams
CLAMS and mussels that block factory cooling pipes fed by river water could soon be dislodged from their comfortable environment. Southampton University scientists are heading a European project to...
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Crises engulf leaders
A crisis of leadership is bedevilling South Africa's 36 universities and technikons, according to a report by a United States marketing expert. There is so little stability that it is "virtually...
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Fees blamed as enrolments fall
Higher tuition charges are being blamed for a sudden fall in Australian university enrolments. It is only the second time in 15 years that the number of freshers has dropped. The last fall was in...
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Industry urges Japan's engineers to get practical
Japanese universities are being urged to improve standards in their engineering faculties as fears mount that the country is losing its competitive edge. The content of engineering courses, the...
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US shifts to funding by results
State funding for colleges and universities in the United States is increasingly being matched to "results" in a shift that mirrors experiments in accountability in Britain and Australia. More than...
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Border students go Dutch
German students living near the Dutch border are beating overcrowding in their local universities by crossing the border to study at universities in the Netherlands. Dutch higher education...
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Brain drain threat for the south
The north-south divide between Italy's 60 or so state universities, which reflects the country's economic and social rift, could widen under government plans to give universities greater autonomy....
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Private door opens in Greece
Greece's education secretary has embarrassed the government by voting in favour of opposition plans to permit private universities. The opposition has revealed that Gerasimos Arsenis, in a...
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A new regime for medical students
Higher education is set to expand student numbers by 20 per cent in the next seven years - but only in medicine, where the intake in England and Wales is on its way up from 5,000 to 6,000 by 2005....
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Holiday homework for juniors
The spending review is out, ministers are shuffled, exams are marked and degrees collected. Education has three new junior ministers, Charles Clarke, Margaret Hodge and George Mudie. George Mudie,...