Teamwork to develop patient aid
Medical professionals are collaborating with computer scientists on a project that aims to give back the power of communication to severely incapacitated patients in intensive care units. Ian...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Ended the last century with chronic fatigue: 1999 saw the birth of my son Max, a move to a bigger house and the publication of my life of Lord Goodman. Began new century with flu when the...
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Home truths
Reassuring news for staff at Liverpool John Moores University, where rumours have been flying since vice-chancellor Peter Toyne announced his retirement: his replacement will not be Mike Fitz-gerald...
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Sally Feldman
Workplace battles seem to have dogged Sally Feldman, former editor of Woman's Hour and now dean of the school of media at the London College of Printing. She gained her spurs in 1990, fighting to...
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Eco forms school for a'software universe'
ROME Italy's superstar semiologist and Nobel prizewinner Umberto Eco has become the founder and first president of a new school of excellence in his native Bologna. Professor Eco said: "I am thinking...
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Schroder rejects fees but states favour them
BONN German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder has tackled the growing controversy over student fees among his ruling Social Democrat Party by clearly rejecting fees - at least for first degrees. "The...
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Cynics slam Clinton's tax ploy
BOSTON President Clinton has been accused of election-year politicking over his proposal for massive tax breaks and financial aid to make college more affordable for children from middle-class...
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On the move
Adrian Webb, vice-chancellor of the University of Glamorgan, became chairman of the Heads of Higher Education in Wales this week following the early retirement of John O. Williams. He also becomes...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Newcastle will award honorary degrees in May to: Terry Farrell, architect (DCL); Ann Pettifor, co-founder and director of the International Jubilee 2000 coalition (DCL); Adetokunbo...
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Eye-catching
(Photograph) - Eye-catching: this photograph by Pauline Nield of a Liverpool University student peering out from a stained-glass window won her a special award in the business and industry category...
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How the pro-Putin forces stack up in the Duma
The likelihood that Russia's acting president, former internal security chief Vladimir Putin, will be voted into the Kremlin next month is casting a shadow over academic freedoms won during a decade...
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In an age of enlightenment
After years of being told how to think, first by the state and then by the church, the Poles, says Richard Bradford, have a mind for change Teaching in Poland was not exactly a childhood dream, in...
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Moscow
Restoration work on Moscow State University's Stalin-era central tower is underway after years of warnings of the dangers of corroding masonry. A French company plans to replace all acid rain-damaged...
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Ottawa
Canada is to bail out its banks over losses from a high rate of default on student loans. The three major banks are likely to receive Can$100 million (Pounds 42 million) from the federal government,...
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Tehran
Twenty policemen, including former Tehran police chief, Brigadier General Farhad Nazari, are to stand trial for their role in a raid on a student hostel last July, the official Iranian news agency...