Private US gifts hit new high
Private donations to United States colleges and universities - from former students, companies and rich philanthropists - have registered their sharpest annual gain in seven years, according to the...
Search
-
-
'Bias' shuts courses
The University of British Columbia, Canada's third-largest university, has become the first to close a programme for reasons of racial and sexual bias. The move follows the release of a 177-page...
-
War threatens Zagreb facelift
Architecture students from Greenwich University helping to shape plans for the future urban regeneration of Zagreb are just miles from frontline trenches where Croatian forces are attacking Serb-...
-
Students lose with joker
France has cancelled plans for a "joker" year, which would have allowed undergraduates to keep their grant for one repeat year. The second-chance grant was one of the key measures resulting from a...
-
Exam jitters extend to next term
A strike by state university lecturers and researchers that wreaked havoc with exams in Portugal last month is threatening to spill over into the next academic year. The three-week strike over...
-
Horde of the flies is key to disease
A group of London University medical students is preparing for seven weeks of sun, sea and sand flies in a bid to help combat a potentially fatal parasitic disease. The eight students from the Royal...
-
Is everybody happy . . . how do you know?
What does the word "unhappy" make you think of? Your answer to this question could show how your memory works, and this in turn could indicate how likely you are to attempt suicide. At the University...
-
Rise of the selfish society
The erosion of accountability in public life is the result of the creation of a complex network of interdependence rather than simpler bureaucracies, according to a group of social scientists...
-
Captain autopilot goes to sea
Crewless ships steered by computer-controlled autopilots could become reality in the next century, with the help of a University of Plymouth project which has been investigating marine control...
-
Shellfish reveal cocktail of contaminants in sea
Contaminants in the shells of clams, cockles and limpets indicate pollution levels in the seas and rivers in which they live, writes Iola Smith. Traditionally, shellfish have not been used to monitor...
-
Distant voices, still lives
If you had behavioural problems at the age of ten you are twice as likely to be living in a stressful place at the age of 28, research at a pioneering centre at the Institute of Psychiatry in London...
-
The visitor snatchers
The site of Edinburgh University's new International Social Sciences Institute has a chequered history, according to legend. Former inhabitants allegedly include a group of Dominican friars who spent...
-
Industrialists and academics envisage licence for skill
The Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise have been bringing together academics and industrialists in a bid to capitalise on Scotland's scientific research, writes Olga Wojtas. Their...
-
Year delay for Higher Still
Michael Forsyth, noted for the speed of his reforms when he was Scottish Office education minister, has postponed a second educational reform since his appointment last month as Secretary of State...
-
Coventry gets Pounds 5m for tech park
Coventry University has won the urban regeneration lottery by receiving a Pounds 5 million grant from the European Regional Development Fund for a 17-acre technology park. The university, which is...