Budget leaves nip in the air
FUNDING. Academics have been moaning about cheese-paring for years, but this was not the alternative they wanted. The old Soviet-era joke about the state of Russian agriculture - "About average -...
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1995 AD: Anno Darwinis?
The year began with an interview with academic and writer Wole Soyinka, Africa's first Nobel laureate for literature. Soyinka, who spent months in jail for promoting peace with breakaway Biafra...
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Pay on Labor'selection agenda
AUSTRALIA. This was the year that universities in Australia grappled with enterprise bargaining. Urged on by federal government, academics and administrators on every campus spent months negotiating...
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Colonial writers lost in the post
Postcolonial studies is drowning in a tidal wave of jargon, conceptual inanities and political exhibitionism argues Russell Jacoby. Just when poststructuralism, postmodernism and deconstructionism...
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Events
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION. The University of Hertfordshire has organised an environmental education conference on January 11-12 focussing on: European Union facilitating programmes; curriculum...
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Hopkins on a song
Sir Anthony Hopkins has donated nearly Pounds 400,000 to his former college, the Welsh College of Music and Drama, paving the way to a further Pounds 1.1 million National Lottery handout for two new...
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Danger warning about radon leaks
Radon, the cancer-causing gas that seeps out through the ground, may be prevalent in areas previously regarded as safe, according to a British Geological Survey study. The area includes a stretch...
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Women show staying power
Under-representation of women in science subjects is a global phenomenon no matter what the country's level of development, according to Unesco's third World Education Report. Girls in many regions...
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Dropouts prompt inquiry
The English funding council is launching a study to find out if more students are dropping out of degree courses. It has put details of a research study out to tender and bids have to be in by...
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Sky light
(Photograph) - Sky light: with gripping new observations coming in from space probes such as Hubble, Galileo, Clementine and Ulysses, Dennis Ashton, director of the Star Centre, just opened at...
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Cold war resurfaces between anthropologists
British academics have been accused of exhibiting "the inertia of the cold war mentality" by criticising their Russian colleagues. The council of the Royal Anthropological Institute passed a...
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Eastern designs:Fumiko Nakamura
(Photograph) - Eastern designs: a final-year art student from Japan designed this year's Christmas card for the University of Dundee. Fumiko Nakamura's design, inspired by Indian textiles, featured...
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NUS may fight for free resits
The National Union of Students is to consider launching a national campaign to abolish resit fees following a victory by Strathclyde University's students association. Strathclyde, which generates...
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Standards slipping Forth warns
Degree standards are slipping as student numbers rise, Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has warned. The nature of the degree was being "redefined" to accommodate bigger student intakes, Mr...
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Bluffer's guide to Christmas lecturing
There is nothing as terrifying in all the academic world, says one scientist; it is like going to the guillotine in a cart that you cannot stop, says another. Agreeing to give the Royal Institution...