Natfhe rails at 'endemic discrimination' in pay
Women academics earn, on average, Pounds 4,300 less than their male colleagues, according to figures released this week. At the London Business School, the pay differential in 1997-98 topped Pounds...
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Royal Society bid for more money to improve academic pay
The Royal Society today called on the government to provide more money to improve academic pay and conditions. Responding to the Bett report on academic pay and conditions, a Royal Society working...
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Conrad Russell
'He has recently said of power: "Like sex it is necessary and may be delightful. Like sex it is unlawful when not based on consent"' It is ironic that Conrad Russell should receive the largest number...
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On the move
Oona King, Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, has been elected to the board of the British Council as vice-chair. She replaces Peter Mandelson, who had to forgo his recent appointment after being...
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Glittering prizes
Jurgen Baumert, professor of education at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has received the first European Latsis Prize, worth 100,000 Swiss francs (Pounds 40,000). The...
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The wall the Czechs built to keep the Roma away
Construction of a concrete wall to separate unemployed Gypsy families from the rest of the community is threatening to destabilise the delicate political balance of the Czech Republic. The two-metre-...
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Shady side of bright ideas
New Zealand is gearing up for elections. Bryan Gould looks at the sense behind ruling party slogans. It is all change in New Zealand. The white paper on tertiary education, which preoccupied the...
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Parties vie for votes with loan schemes
WELLINGTON With student debt standing at more than NZ$3 billion (Pounds 937 million), the student loan scheme will be a major issue in New Zealand in this month's general election. The key parties...
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Delhi School asks alumni for aid as cash crisis looms
NEW DELHI The Delhi School of Economics - regarded as India's equivalent of the London School of Economics, and where the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen taught in the 1960s - is on the verge of...
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Serb call for free elections
BELGRADE The Serbian organisation Otpor (Resistance) emerged from a year of underground activity to launch a campaign of demonstrations last week against the regime of Yugoslav president Slobodan...
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El-Ayun
Students at the University of El-Ayun, the capital of Western Sahara, clashed with Morrocan police during a demonstration calling for the United Nations to speed up plans for a referendum on...
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Roskilde
The Viking Ship Museum at Roskilde, Denmark, is to construct the world's first full-size replica of a Viking ship based on one found in Roskilde Fjord. The original 30-metre-long ship was for 60...
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Kuala Lumpur
Twenty University of Malaya students have threatened the Associated Press with legal action if it does not retract a report about the motives for a demonstration last month. Students denied the...
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Skills diaspora goes into reverse
DURBAN Sansa wants to make contact with more skilled South Africans abroad. Information from Lynda Loxton on: + 21 461 7321 or + 82 784 4621, email: mlloyd@hiddingh.uct.ac.za. Or visit its website at...
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Israel offers Bedouins a study route
THE NEGEV A record number of 200 Bedouin students, 85 of them women, have enrolled for degree courses this year at Israel's Ben-Gurion University in the Negev Desert, posing a major challenge for the...