Students 'pick brand names'
CITY MOVES by Alan Shearer and Harvey Nichols could prove absolutely fabulous news for university admissions officers in Newcastle and Leeds by boosting the profile of their localities. Reports by...
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The cost of learning
PART-TIME work and borrowing have made students better off but the most vulnerable continue to face serious financial disincentives to higher education, according to a new survey. While the average...
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Snow-go to all that jazz
UNIVERSITIES and colleges across Britain were closed on Tuesday as picket lines held firm, if not frozen. In London snow, sleet and driving rain threatened to turn the strike into a washout but it...
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Small invention, massive leap
NASA has awarded a contract to physicists at the University of Wales Aberystwyth to equip its deep space probes with the world's smallest yet most efficient mass spectrometer detector array. The...
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Birds of a feather in Nepal
THE EFFECT of managed grasslands on Nepal's birds is being examined by the universities of Cardiff and Amsterdam and bird conservationists in Kathmandu. One of the researchers, Hem Sagar Baral, is...
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Health check is spot on
MORE THAN 400 people living in the Northeast of England are about to be investigated by Newcastle University's "Red Spot" child health study. The unique study, being carried out by researchers in the...
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Supersub patrols the depths
THE FIRST unmanned submarine designed specifically for civilian research in ocean science was launched off the shores of Britain last week. Autosub1, developed at the Southampton Oceanography Centre...
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Students close Quebec colleges
QUEBEC students have won a victory in their running battle against the introduction of tuition fees and cuts in the Canadian province's 48 junior colleges in advance of the December budget. Education...
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Gallery trails fine art find
The art gallery at Mount St Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is trying to trace the movements of an undocumented painting by the distinguished artist Margaret Clarke (1888-1961), recently...
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New world budget cuts put classics on ice
The classics in Australia are under threat. Faced with government cuts to their budgets, universities are rationalising their courses and, with sharply declining numbers of students, the classics are...
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Campuses bulge with middle-age spread
Students over the age of 40 now comprise the fastest-growing group on United States campuses, according to a study by two national higher education organisations. Enrolment of fortysomethings has...
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Slovaks hold funeral rite
Slovak students have held a candle-lit "funeral for academic freedom" in Freedom Square in Bratislava in protest at legislation that threatens university decision-making powers. Anger at the new law...
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Friendship with a Russian smile
FOR THE head of an institution which had to raise more than half its $20 million budget last year and owes more than $1 million in heating, electricity and water bills, Vladimir Filippov, rector of...
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Bikers speed on a virtual road
HOW CAN can one ride the world's most powerful motorcycle and roar along twisting open roads at breakneck speed in perfect safety? Virtual reality, of course. A group of engineers from Pisa's Santa...
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Health is fine on a drop of wine
GRAND traditions can leave a country resting on its laurels rather than competing at the cutting edge of research. Until recently, France was no exception where its heritage as a country of fine...