Why it's sayonara, Japan
Trisha Walker looks at why more and more Japanese students are choosing to study abroad Although the Japanese have been going abroad to study since the first century AD, it is only since the mid-...
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Pisa
Indian economist and Nobel prizewinner Amartya Sen, who has been giving lectures at the University of Bologna, has complained of having to cancel a recent scheduled visit to Italy owing to the...
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Durban
Protests, disruptions, a student boycott and senate censure followed the decision to make 41 academics redundant at South Africa's University of the Western Cape, forcing a two-week postponement of...
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Lisbon
Portugal will spend 26 per cent more on research next year. Some Esc43,800 million (Pounds 162 million)will be available for science in 1999 compared with Esc34,700 million in 1998, according to...
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Moscow
Russia's deputy education minister has resigned in a policy clash with his new boss, whom he criticised for being too pro-Communist. Alexander Asmolov, a psychology professor, left within days of the...
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Eye witness
American physicists working on the international thermonuclear experimental (ITER) reactor in Garching, Germany, and Naka, Japan, are packing their bags and returning home. The United States has...
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Tajiks opt for revival of the fittest
Dushanbe. Tajikistan's education minister Munira Inoyatova is taking the Heinz approach to post-civil war reforms: 57 different types of curriculum are being introduced throughout the small Central...
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Hindus drop religious reform
New Delhi. The Indian government has dropped a proposal that would have diluted the constitutional right of religious minorities to run education institutions after its allies joined the opposition...
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Our friends in high places
Universities will suffer by reform of the Lords, says Conrad Russell Since the 1988 Education Act, universities have got used to looking to the House of Lords as their defender. Votes on university...
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Italian funding share
The British Council is targeting young talent with bright ideas for joint-project funding, writes Paul Bompard Young British and Italian scientists who collaborate on research could soon be tapping...
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Japan shakes off its torpor
Tokyo. A radical shakeup of Japan's stagnant higher education was recommended last week by the university council that advises the government. The council proposed tougher standards on staff and...
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Clash over red-green fees ban
Hamburg. Plans by Germany's new red-green coalition government for a national ban on student fees could face a legal challenge from the conservative state of Bavaria. Bavarian education minister Hans...
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Doctored degree charge denied
Pisa. The Italian higher education ministry has finally responded to international concern over its handling of a Chilean-Canadian researcher's alleged maltreatment by the national exam board. David...
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Rigorous registrar in rumpus
Dublin. A bizarre row has blown up at Ireland's most prestigious and least-known academic institution - the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. It has resulted in minutes of meetings going...
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Archaeologists dig for gold
Playing the heritage card could help scientists win funding, says Wendy Barnaby Scientists are turning to tourism, the world's fastest-growing industry, as a novel way of winning funding. A recent...