Fight for right to mother tongue
The right to mother-tongue education continues to cause protests across eastern Europe. In Romania, MPs from the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) announced last week that they will...
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Robin Hood plan for France
Student unrest in French universities has escalated in response to government efforts to meet demands for extra resources, Francois Bayrou unveiled an emergency plan for the most under-resourced...
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Cereal pooper at large
The University of Texas has been struggling to extricate itself from an unholy row with the United States cereals industry. The subject: rat droppings. The public affairs department of the university...
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American students lured by false claims
American foreign study programmes are reviewing the promises they make to students in the wake of legal action against a college that allegedly misrepresented itself as an affiliate of Oxford...
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Exchange rate falls
International exchanges of students between the United States and Europe, including Britain, are weakening, according to a new survey. The figures may mark a creeping regionalism in student choices,...
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Candidate for top job upsets old guard
British academics are to be asked to adjudicate in a controversy which could spark racial conflict on the campus of the University of the Wi****ersrand. Thirteen top academics have accused William...
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Award scheme proves a triumph
One of the most significant aspects of South Africa's transformation process has been the extent to which well-qualified and highly motivated black South Africans have slipped easily and effectively...
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Boom in aborigines at college
The number of Australian abor-igines enrolled at university has more than doubled over the past five years. In the biggest education break-through by the nation's indigenous people in 200 years,...
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Collaboration sweeps research
By 2000 more than half of the United Kingdom's scientific papers will each be produced by three or more researchers working in more than two institutions or organisations, say researchers at Sussex...
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Fat lot of good
The idea that body fat is good for you is so unfashionable these days that it is hard to believe it could be true. As a result precious little research has been done to establish the facts. Until now...
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Digging to save Roman gem
An inscribed tablet found by Southampton and Exeter University archaeologists has been described as the most significant Roman inscription ever discovered in the eastern desert of Egypt. The tablet,...
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Blind faith for Swansea
Shadow education spokesman David Blunkett launched Swansea University's 75th anniversary celebrations by opening the university's Recording Centre for the Blind. The centre, the first such to cater...
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Quality quango named
The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals and the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council have set up an 11-member review group to advise on the future development of SHEFC's quality...
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New number for worried students
Students in distress will have immediate access to the Samaritans by remembering the new number - 0345 909090 - which was launched earlier this month. The number is designed to avoid delays by...
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Mongolia gets economic lesson
New generations of Mongolian economists are to be given the chance to study the economic model that they believe is most suitable for their country, with the help of advisers from the University of...