UK's first professor of gay studies appointed
Nottingham Trent University has appointed lecturer and poet Greg Woods as professor of lesbian and gay studies. This is believed to be the first such appointment in Britain.
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Platform to power
(Photograph) - * Girl power? Only 8.1 per cent of professors are female but a THES survey shows 869 women appointed senior lecturers, principal lecturers or readers in the past two years comparedwith...
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Service college in tug of war
ROME's civil service college is desperately trying to ward off a takeover bid by Milan's Bocconi University. New legislation could privatise some of the institute's functions and downgrade it to a...
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It could be you ... it certainly is Durham
Profits from the National Lottery are being used to create a new research chair at the University of Durham's business school. Camelot, the company that runs the lottery, is sponsoring the chair in...
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Ask your car to phone home
In the not too distant future, drivers may be able to tell their car to dial a number on their mobile telephone, select a compact disc or find a short cut home. The speech-recognition technology that...
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Romania on road to Erasmus
Romania and Bulgaria are queuing up to join Europe's student mobility scheme, Ard Jongsma reports ROMANIA will this autumn become one of the first three countries from former Eastern Europe to join...
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Bursaries ward off debts
CANADA's federal government has passed a law aimed at helping bring down the cost of university. The centrepiece of the law is the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation, a funding body handling a...
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News bulletin
(Photograph) - A Beijing University student scans the latest commentaries about President Bill Clinton's visit during which he toured the campus, which has just celebrated its 100th anniversary,...
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Shaanxi on a fast track
Shaanxi Province, an education centre for science and technology in northeast China, is speeding up training for experts in local government, medicine, science and technology, water conservation,...
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V-cs fear anti-Asian backlash
AUSTRALIAN vice-chancellors fear an anti-Asian immigration party's success in a Queensland state election could damage their overseas student recruiting drives and are trying to limit the damage. The...
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Doctor arrested for Mafia killing
A professor at the University of Messina medical school has been arrested for allegedly instigating the Mafia-style assassination of a colleague in January. Diego Cuzzocrea, former university rector...
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Sacked general joins Russian science brigade
RUSSIA's former interior minister Anatoly Kulikov, who was sacked by President Boris Yeltsin in a Kremlin cabinet reshuffle in March, has resurfaced as a Pounds 50-a-month researcher at an academic...
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Maastricht border crossing
THE FIRST transnational university merger in Europe will straddle the Dutch-Belgian border. A team of academics from both countries is recommending that Maastricht University, in the Netherlands,...
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Nazi student fined for inciting racial violence
A university doctoral student who arranged a lecture by a leading Swedish Nazi has been fined by the courts. Karolina Matti, a student at the University of Umea, was fined the equivalent of Pounds...
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Short-term scandal in our universities
When tenure was abolished in the old universities for all those appointed or promoted after 1987 it was said that the then growing habit of hiring staff on limited-term contracts would decline. After...