Botswana reopens following boycott
The University of Botswana has reopened after a three-week closure but all returning students have had to sign a document binding them to guidelines and procedures "for the resolution of student...
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Makerere makes bid to improve elocution
Globalisation has increased the need for better communication. THES reporters look at universities that are promoting English as the common language. Split infinitives, uncrossed ts and garbled...
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Czech course helps medics to work worldwide
Globalisation has increased the need for better communication. THES reporters look at universities that are promoting English as the common language. Ottomar Kittnar delves into ancient European...
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Opting for Inglese prose and Italian poetry
Globalisation has increased the need for better communication. THES reporters look at universities that are promoting English as the common language. When Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government...
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Time to parler Anglais? (2)
Globalisation has increased the need for better communication. THES reporters look at universities that are promoting English as the common language. English-medium instruction is increasing in...
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Time to parler Anglais?
Globalisation has increased the need for better communication. THES reporters look at universities that are promoting English as the common language. Montreal's French-speaking students have been...
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Call for Dutch to brush up on translation
Globalisation has increased the need for better communication. THES reporters look at universities that are promoting English as the common language. At the end of the 1980s, a wild rumour circulated...
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Medics get to heart of matter
German medical students will soon be able to take a virtual 3-D trip inside the human body with the aid of a pioneering computer system. The program, virtusMED, will be introduced in medical training...
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Small states offered virtual aid
The Commonwealth's small states - those with fewer than 1.5 million people - are to get a virtual university to help find solutions to their common problems. Tiny populations, minuscule land area,...
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Chief proposes a cooperative Euro-region
The governor of Austria's Styria province has proposed a new Euro-region to increase inter-university cooperation and improve economic ties. It would incorporate Slovenia and adjacent provinces of...
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Finland is thinking ahead to Bologna
Finland's government is considering steps to bring its university degree courses in line with the Bologna recommendations for convergence across Europe. A ministerial committee has reported to the...
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Obscurity beckons
Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research - "the journal of inflated research and personalities" - and the man behind the annual IgNobel Prizes, awarded "for achievements that cannot...
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Newtonian attraction
Babson College, a small but prestigious management school on the outskirts of Boston in the United States, plans to mark the 5th anniversary of the death of Sir Isaac Newton on March 31 with...
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Delusional destination
Universities have long held an allure for the disturbed. The Diary recalls an incident in which a woman, convinced that her husband was trying to kill her with a death-ray, consulted physicists at...
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Solar Priest honoured
Congratulations Eric Priest, a solar physicist at the University of St Andrews. Professor Priest was named this week as the winner of the highest honour of the American Astronomical Society, the Hale...