Disabled back football
DISABLED football fans are getting a better deal from the game because of improvements to grounds over the past five years, researchers have found. A survey of 1,200 supporters with disabilities,...
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Musical therapy
A NEW musical instrument may help people with special needs express themselves in mucic and dance. Researchers at Reading University believe. The "Sound=Space" system uses sensors to pick up...
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Property rights fight
France's national audit office has criticised the system of rewarding researchers for dis- coveries made in public research institutes. After investigations in four main institutes including the...
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Consumers file complaint about exams
Italy's association of consumer groups has filed an official complaint against La Sapienza University in Rome over irregularities in the running of exams. The complaint, made to the Rome prosecutor's...
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Row over work placements
FRENCH university presidents are coming under pressure from student unions to play a more active role in plans for work placements leading to a degree credit. Under France's previous government the...
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Call for a science fraud squad
The president of the German research fund DFG is calling for an international commission to be set up to protect the scientific community from fraud. Wolfgang Fruhwald was responding to the worst...
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Doctors in trouble as Danes impose quota
A DISPUTE which threatened an agreement on student mobility between the Nordic nations days before it became effective has been defused - but only until the end of the year. Norway's minister of...
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Cash glitch solved
THE Chinese government has set up a national fund to support the publication of academic works in the natural sciences and technology, writes Geoff Scott. Owing to funding problems China has had...
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Kenya turns to private market
KENYA's government is to grant charters to nine private universities on condition that they help meet the country's need for degree courses in science and technology. The private universities will be...
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Accusation of nuclear arms link hits Israel
ISRAEL's Ben-Gurion University has been accused by the United States government of breaching an agreement on the supply of a supercomputer by using it for nuclear research. The allegation came to...
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Entomologist is honoured
INSECT specialist Thomas Odhiambo has been declared 1997's most distinguished African scientist by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Ibadan, Nigeria. The institute makes awards...
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Hammering in a love of learning
THE Turkish metal workers' union is to open its own university near Ankara. Classes at the Turkish Metalworkers' University and Union Academy will begin at the next semester if the authorities give...
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No codding for Chance Cove
AFTER working from 5am until noon to haul up a slim catch, fisherman Roy Clarke had to go and help his daughter move to Toronto. She has a job lined up. His daughter is not the first person to leave...
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Plea to ban poaching of students
POACHING of foreign fee-paying students by some Australian universities could damage the nation's Aus$3 billion-a-year international education market, according to a member of the federal government'...
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Equality law threatens survival of male sport on US campuses
THE WOMEN'S National Basketball Association has made its United States debut - another milestone for women's sports. Twenty-five years after US President Richard Nixon signed the famous Title IX,...