Easing of cash vice on Wales is urged
Welsh vice chancellors are to keep up the pressure on Ron Davies, secretary of state for Wales, for an easing of the fierce funding squeeze being imposed on them. The issue was high on the agenda...
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Millennium engineer reveals some dome truths
One of the world's biggest cranes will lumber into action in North Greenwich, London, in the next few weeks to lift the first of 12 100-metre masts that will support the giant Millennium Dome. In a...
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Lakes university plan revived
The case for a University of the Lake District was reactivated this week with the publication of new proposals to merge a handful of colleges across Cumbria to form a new federal university. The idea...
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Former polys top the debt league
Debt levels are continuing to rise among higher education institutions, with the former polytechnics still carrying the largest burden, according to an annual financial guide to the sector. The...
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'Sacrifice jobs for better teachers' - ex-TTA man
A major shift of funds from undergraduate teacher training to postgraduate provision could be the best way to improve primary school teaching standards, despite the mass redundancies it would cause...
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Cup helps French image
ENGLAND still does not know if it will be going to France for next year's World Cup in football. But a group of eight British academics already have their tickets booked. Hugh Dauncey and Geoffrey...
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Lottery saves fun of fair - digitally
The author Thomas Frost wrote that by the end of the century the last showman would be as great a curiosity as a dodo, and as extinct. That was in 1874 and it is just as true now, according to...
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Hologram test for pregnancy
Biotechnology breakthroughs: starch and evening primrose oil yields and the use of holograms Routine tests such as those carried out for pregnancy and measuring blood glucose levels could be...
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Spud smashes starch barrier
Biotechnology breakthroughs: starch and evening primrose oil yields and the use of holograms A breakthrough in genetic engineering by Oxford University scientists should dramatically increase starch...
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Italian students in entry chaos
Students trying to sign up in Italian universities have met confusion and bureaucratic uncertainty following a succession of policy changes regulating access to degree courses, writes Paul Bompard in...
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Mega-campuses face hatchet
Rome. The Italian government is to call a halt to the creation of new universities and expansion of existing ones without proof of genuine demand. It has also repeated its call for the break-up of...
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Academics race for presidency
Dublin. Two prominent academics are in the race to succeed Mary Robinson as president of Ireland. The outcome of the election on October 30 is uncertain now that John Hume has ruled himself out as an...
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Ban on ragging rites enrages French traditionalists
Paris. Fierce opposition from the French education ministry brought traditional initiation rites to a halt last week in some preparatory classes for the grandes ecoles. Legislation before parliament...
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Second Fidel: Students chant anti-government slogans
(Photograph) - Students chant anti-government slogans near the presidential palace in Manila in their challenge to Philippine president Fidel Ramos's attempt to change the constitution so he can run...
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Newspapers shame defaulters
THE Sabah Foundation has mounted a national campaign to get graduates to pay back their loans to enable other students to take advantage of its scholarships. About 100 east Malaysian graduates still...