Standards struggle on home pages
Australia's universities have been forced to grapple with a dramatic new problem: how to set down standards for individual home pages on the World-Wide Web without infringing academic freedom. With...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a friend of Einstein's who was similarly handy with equations: "'The youth that was I', you may come to speak of him in the third person, indeed the protagonist of...
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Whence Pounds 10bn?
The Conservative Political Centre's policy document on higher education shows just how far higher education policy is becoming a matter of consensus. Because of this it may not offer politicians much...
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Great expectations
David Jobbins talks to Mbulelo Mzamane about the unique problems faced in the wake of apartheid. As the second-oldest black university in sub-Saharan Africa, Fort Hare, in the remote Eastern Cape,...
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Ministry curbs new Israeli law courses
Officials at Israel's Ministry of Justice have issued a statement saying that only one of the new tertiary colleges will be granted approval to run courses in law. The ministry added a warning to the...
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Rebels' 'student' image attacked
President Borhanoddin Rabbani of Afghanistan has rejected the image of the Taleban insurgents, currently occupying the south-west of the country, as students of the Islamic religion and accused them...
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Australia reveals huge 40-year expansion
Enrolments in Australian universities have jumped 20-fold from 31,000 students to 622,000 in 40 years. This is one of the astonishing changes in a set of higher education "time series tables"...
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Ministers call for science link-ups
Science ministers from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development held decisive talks on internationalising science policy in Paris last week. Jo Ritzen, Netherlands minister of...
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Healthy interests run into trouble
Twenty-three people are to stand trial on charges of possessing forged documents to allow unqualified graduate students to enter specialist courses at Naples University medical school. Among those...
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Czechmate for Klaus tuition fee charges
Ministers in the Czech Republic have been forced into retreat over a plan to charge new students tuition fees. Opposition has proved so fierce that a law passed by the republic's council of ministers...
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Dry rot breeds on the wild side
A scientist at the University of Abertay, Dundee has achieved a world first in the fight against dry rot by successfully growing wild dry rot fungus in captivity. Nia White, of the Scottish Institute...
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Drill thrills to come
Laser technology could make visits to the dentist a pain-free experience if clinical trials at the University of London in the next two years are successful. Gavin Pearson, coordinator of the project...
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Scots and Irish swap gift of Gaelic
As the Anglo-Irish peace process rumbles on, new cross-cultural links are being fostered through an Irish-Scottish academic initiative. Trinity College, Dublin and Strathclyde and Aberdeen...
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Institute nurses health
City University's Institute of Health Sciences, set up two years ago, is to double in size to nearly 2,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students this week with a Pounds 10 million contract for...
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City listens to science voices
The Royal Society and the information technology community are trying to encourage collaboration between scientists, technologists and the City. In a lecture marking the launch of the initiative last...