Southwood defends scientists
'Too secret...too late' It cannot be denied that things are worse than they should have been because regulations were not enforced. If the ban on giving cattle meat and bonemeal feed had been...
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Wet reply to weather
The water industry is responding poorly to climatic events, but aggrieved customers should stop complaining and "learn to adapt to the results of climate change", according to research from Reading...
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What bosses want
A Pounds 100,000 research project will assess the skills employers seek in students and the curriculum changes that instil them. The two-year study will be run by Middlesex University Business School...
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Yeltsin backlash among students
A SENIOR official in Russia's Sverdlovsk region has resigned following forceful police action against a student demonstration in the capital, Yekaterinburg, last month. Anatoly Gayda, deputy head of...
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First pay offer in 12 years rejected
Indian university lecturers have rejected a salaries and promotions package - the first for 12 years - as "deceptive" and an "insult". They say that the proposal ignores the rise in the cost of urban...
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Danes reshufle research
RESPONSIBILITY for Danish university research funding is transferring from the ministry of education in a shakeup following March's general elections. Research will in future be handled by the...
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Setback for the genome project
ITALIAN biologist Renato Dulbecco, Nobel prize winner for medicine in 1975 for his research on DNA-cancer links and one of the most revered names in Italian scientific research, has said he may...
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First move towards Euro-PhD
THE FRENCH and Italian rectors' conferences have agreed on a research doctorate recognised by both countries and jointly regulated and funded. The two countries will contribute the equivalent of...
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Criminals lodged on campus
ACCUSATIONS that the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has become a criminal base for guns and drugs trafficking are being investigated by the local district attorney. The investigation was...
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Peking celebrates a hundred
Oxford University vice-chancellor Colin Lucas is to share a platform with Chinese president Jiang Zemin during celebrations for Peking University's 100th anniversary next week. President Jiang will...
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British universities are rushing to China on undergraduate recruitment drives
British universities are rushing to China on undergraduate recruitment drives to make up for the shortfall they have suffered from other countries in the region. According to the British Council in...
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Chinese push social science
SPENDING on social science research in China has doubled in the past five years, but academics are still calling for more money. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences last year received 177 million...
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West report kindles critics' fire
PROPOSALS for a "student centred" method of funding Australia's universities and criticisms of current practices have raised an outcry among academics, students, postgraduates, vice-chancellors and...
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Gun law
(Photograph) - Bangladeshi police arrest Dhaka University students suspected of being involved in campus gun battles. One student was killed and several injured in an hour-long fire fight between...
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Students sue to stop staff strike
A STRIKE by lecturers at a Canadian university was settled two days after students served legal papers on both its president and the head of the staff union. A tentative agreement has been reached...