Extra cash but too few students
Denmark's finance bill for 1999 adds 3,100 extra higher education places next year and a further 3,900 a year until 2003 but there are not enough applicants. Fewer than 60 per cent of 2,400 places...
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Basque professor urns too much for comfort
A Spanish university professor who shares his office with almost 40 funeral urns is campaigning for a burial site for the ashes. The ashes are the remains of people who have donated their bodies for...
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Left professors seize chance to overturn Jurassic economy
Left-of-centre professors and academicians are seizing their first chance in nearly a decade to propose radical solutions to Russia's economic ills. Former dissidents, social democrats and reformist...
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Teacher crisis for Gregorian University
The Gregorian University in Rome, for centuries the global nerve centre of the Jesuits, is suffering from a serious shortage of qualified teachers. Many Jesuits, the intellectual storm-troopers of...
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China creates super-profs
Between 300 and 500 young and middle-aged professors in China will be paid unprecedented salaries over the next three to five years in an education ministry scheme to raise academic standards, writes...
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University fat cats cream off Pounds 74m
Australian universities spend up to 10 per cent of their wages bills on salaries for top executives and the total probably exceeds Aus$200 million (Pounds 74 million) each year. On average, 55 per...
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US call to deter foreign medics
An influential committee chaired by former senator George Mitchell has recommended ending government subsidies to medical students in the United States who are not American citizens. But the proposal...
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Diagnosing some ariasof concern
A husband and wife team are examining ways physicians have historically been portrayed in opera as a way of understanding criticism of today's doctors. In the world of opera, doctors have figured...
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Cholera death sparks protest
Obafemi Awolowo University, created over 30 years ago in the city of Ile-Ife, was once described as architecturally the best campus in Nigeria. It had an efficient and functional lake from which it...
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Christmas all wrapped up in family ties
As the tills finally fall silent on Christmas Eve, commercialism and cynicism tend to wash away. Families, who may see each other seldom and like each other little, nonetheless gather to renew the...
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O come on all ye faithful, away with the manger
Peter Atkins rejoices as Christmas's religious trappings are overwhelmed by the tidal wave of commercial excess Thank goodness it is Christmas. For those of us who regard Christianity (like all...
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Study abroad threat
Jim Coleman has drawn attention to the Sorbonne declaration, signed by the UK, that commits its signatories to encouraging students to spend a part of their course studying in another country ("Make...
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Theology and equality
Objections to theology in British universities are sometimes hysterical and preposterous, but Manfredi La Manna (THES, Letters, November 20) presents a sober and interesting argument. It goes like...
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Animal tests: facts not emotion
Colin Blakemore's statement that "without animals medical research would simply stop" ("We're all scared to death", THES, December 11) clearly needs qualification. The cry of an anxious and fearful...
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Animal tests: facts not emotion
Generalising research findings across different populations is, as trained scientists ought to know, methodologically unsound guesswork. In the case of human medicine the real, the only, test is the...