New Year's honours
KNIGHTS: George Alberti, president of the Royal College of Physicians, for services to diabetic medicine; John Beringer, lately chairman, Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment, for...
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Creative detail
Students with dreams of creative internet careers can examine courses through a bilingual European guide. Where to Get Multimedia Training in Europe covers courses in 16 European Union countries....
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Eyewitness
Romanians lost their traditional construction skills under communism, especially after former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu took power in 1964. He banned brick-kiln firing, lime-mortar rendering and...
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Turin
A 90-year-old retired general of the elite Alpini mountain troops has graduated in political science at Turin University, earning top marks for his thesis on relations between the United States and...
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Petaling Jaya
Malaysia's national accreditation board has ruled that students enrolling for masters degrees in private universities must have at least a first degree or its equivalent. The minimum entry...
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Ottawa
A police operation to apprehend clients of street prostitutes netted the man who performed Canada's first heart transplant. Wilbert Keon is to step down as director-general of the University of...
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Tripped up by false fluency
Culturally specific terms in education can be minefields for even skilled translators, says Pieta Monks. Pity the Soviet translator of a booklet about a collective farm designed to show western...
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Dollar aids student drift abroad
Britain remains by far the most popular destination for United States students doing academic work abroad and their numbers are increasing. But several non-traditional destinations have seen even...
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Arctic skills fill a generation gap
One of the most northerly academic institutions is the Inuit Arctic College in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. At 63 degrees north, only Arktikum in Lapland is closer to the Arctic Circle. Arctic...
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Euros for civic study
British universities are to prosper from grants under the European Commission Connect initiative, which will spend E8.4 million (Pounds 5.3 million). Sixty selected projects are supposed to combine...
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The lure of marrying a man from Minsk
Belarussian students on courses deemed socially in demand, such as teaching, law and social work, have to sign papers agreeing to go where ordered on graduation or forfeit their diplomas. The system...
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Chernobyl critic faces court for 'bribery'
Yuri Bandarzheuski, former rector of a medical institute in the Belarussian city of Gomel, faces charges of having taken bribes to let students through entrance exams. But the prosecution case can...
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Art works under the Louvre
The rumour started in arts circles and the press about five years ago. Was Le Jardin a Auvers a Van Gogh or a forgery by Emile Schuffenecker? The doubt meant no one bid when it came to auction in...
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Boom in shorter German degrees
The boom in Anglo-Saxon-style bachelor and master degrees in Germany has led university heads to set up an accreditation council to control standards. The Bonn-based council has set basic criteria...
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MIT-Dublin deal branded 'naive'
The Irish government has beaten competition from several countries and has convinced Massachusetts Institute of Technology to set up its planned MediaLabEurope in Dublin - but not everyone is happy...