Glittering prizes
The late Diana, Princess of Wales will be commemorated tomorrow in an awards ceremony in her memory held by Leicester University. Winners of a Diana, Princess of Wales award for research and practice...
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Rome
Aldo Bernardini, a professor in international law at the University of Teramo, southern Italy, has sent telegrams to premier Massimo D'Alema and to university minister Ortensio Zecchino saying that...
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Paris
A new E50 million (Pounds 333 million) National Institute of Art History will open in 2003 in the historic buildings of the former National Library in central Paris. Including a library with a...
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Rome
An official survey by neurologists and psychiatrists at Rome's La Sapienza university has revealed an alarmingly high incidence of depression and anxiety disorders among Italy's two million...
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Eye witness
Tension is high in the former Portuguese colony of East Timor following clashes between pro-independence groups and factions who want the island to be integrated into Indonesia. Indonesia's...
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First casualty - democracy
Nato's 'morally motivated' war has left a fledgling Serbian opposition in tatters, argues Celia Hawkesworth Many commentators have observed that the effect of the Nato bombing against Yugoslavia has...
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Italian dons come under scrutiny...
The Italian government has approved legislation that for the first time will establish systematic evaluation of universities, departments and individual academics. The laws will also introduce...
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Sacking risk for protestors
Malaysia's education ministry has warned university students and lecturers they will be expelled or sacked for taking part in demonstrations following the conviction of former deputy prime minister...
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Bram Fischer scholars take a tip from Oxford
South African universities face a big challenge in meeting the demand for higher education from excluded sections of society with reduced funds. Key to its post-apartheid development is the creation...
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Japanese academic in sex scandal
Sex, corruption and medical error are stalking Japan's universities in a flurry of adverse publicity in the past few weeks. At the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, an unnamed associate professor...
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Going to war over prime numbers
As the inventor of public-key encryption prepares to lecture in London, Duncan Campbell reports on revelations from the secret world of spying that raise key questions for both history and...
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Value debate live on web
A live email-to-web debate on the recently-published TASC report, Value for Money Considerations in Software Strategies for Higher Education, has been organised by NISS. Contributors will be able to...
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What counts cannot always be tabulated
League tables are loved and hated - with reason. A spur to improvement, they are necessarily uncomfortable. They are also unfair, open to manipulation and do not measure vital aspects of university...
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First meeting of body to promote languages
University language centres have set up a representative body to promote language teaching and research. The inaugural meeting of the Association of University Language Centres in the UK took place...
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'Bonkers' job index irks v-cs
Vice-chancellors and funding chiefs have hit out at government attempts to measure graduate employability. They are concerned that the performance indicator for employability, due to be published...