Mexico City
Juan Ramon de la Fuente, rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, entered his office last week, nearly three months after he was appointed during a student strike over increased...
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Banned by Straw poll
If home secretary Jack Straw is feeling beleagured he will find no sanctuary at his alma mater. Leeds University Union, of which Mr Straw was president in 1968, has banned him from the union building...
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Copenhagen
Danish officials are taking a relaxed view of economics students who use state-guaranteed educational loans, which carry a 4.25 per cent interest rate, to speculate in high-risk, high-gain technology...
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Dayton, Tennessee
A small number of papers associated with the 1925 "monkey trial", in which a science teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, were lost or damaged in a fire at Bryan College. It destroyed rare...
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Kuala Teregganu, Malaysia
The Peninsula Malay Students Federation has advised its 200,000 members to avoid illegal gatherings and protests, warning that action will be taken against students who use the federation's name for...
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Sporting chance
(Photograph) - Children from a Middlesbrough primary school visited the University of Teesside for a festival of sport to give students on the sports science degree experience of working with 'real'...
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How to..Help students get that first job
WHAT Candidates need help to take control of job interviews, says Jane Oakshott HOW It is a paradox that the most employable students are often those most fazed by interviews. Being conscientious and...
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Foundation degrees open opportunities barricades
"I hope it will be a modular degree, with all modules linked through credit transfer. It will be a way through which vocationally based students - through GNVQs and NVQs - can reach level three and...
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Cut down to wrong size
Wordy speakers in University of Cambridge discussions risk having their contributions curtailed. The university has decided to review arrangements for publishing the entire text of debates at its...
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Glittering prizes
The DLitt David Williams received from the University of Birmingham was a higher doctorate for research achievement and not an honorary degree.
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Strasbourg
Hungary has ratified a convention that aims to ensure that qualifications granted in one country will be recognised in another. The convention is the first joint Council of Europe/Unesco convention...
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Genetic data hits consent setback
The near-complete genetic database of the population of Iceland being built by the US firm deCode Genetics may be shunned by major pharmaceutical companies because it does not involve the active...
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Siblings launch test case over finance
A brother and sister are seeking a judicial review of tuition fee and student loans regulations. In a test case, Lucy Knight, 20, and her brother Christopher, 19, argue that there is no reason why...
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Group asks: when is a science publication not a publication?
An international group of science bodies, librarians and publishing associations has attempted to come up with a definition of a science publication in the electronic era. The group says that the...
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Lab faces closure after OST appraisal
Closing Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire if it fails to become host to Britain's new synchrotron source could reap savings of up to Pounds 25 million a year, according to an Office of Science and...