MP's not-so-wild youth
Social security minister Jeff Rooker has been recalling his prudent undergraduate days at Aston University for the National Union of Students' magazine. Far from indulging in the present student...
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Get real, Nelson
Optimism inspired by the most evocative of sources fuelled talks over lecturers' pay between trade union Natfhe and the Universities and Colleges Employers Association this week. Natfhe submitted its...
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Eyewitness
As the13th International Aids Conference opens in South Africa, controversy has erupted among scientific experts over the existence of a causal link between the HIV virus and Aids. Yesterday, the "...
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Estonia moves a ministry
Estonia's ministry of education is to move from the capital, Tallinn, to the university city of Tartu during the next academic year. The move, scheduled to be completed by 2001, will cost upwards of...
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PM takes over as popular education minister quits
Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak has temporarily taken over the education ministry after its minister, Yossi Sarid, resigned despite a direct appeal from student leaders for him to remain in the...
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Students plead for less maths
French economics students have launched an internet petition protesting that their courses are too mathematical, theoretical and divorced from reality, and demanding "a pluralistic approach" to the...
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British push to woo Cypriots
British universities and colleges have stepped up their efforts to recruit Greek Cypriot students. Next month, for the second summer running, there will be a mission to recruit post A-level students...
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Cyanide expert jailed for meeting
A leading Turkish academic with a 25-year record in cyanide research has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for speaking about risks associated with gold mining. Huseyin Yildirim, of the Ege...
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Bob Dylan fan's rocky road to success
A generation after the internal emergency declared by Indira Gandhi in an attempt to crush militant students, it seems that the step from political oppression to political stardom is a small one....
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Can fee gift halt muscle drain?
Canadian universities will offer full-tuition athletics scholarships in a move that shifts them closer to their US neighbours. The Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union has found a compromise over...
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Mugabe spin doctor quizzed over leave
South Africa's University of the Wi****ersrand has given Jonathan Moyo, the controversial election campaign manager for Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's ruling party, until today to explain a...
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Spain faces IT skills headache
Barcelona British entrepreneur Paul Metcalf is finding it hard to recruit the technical staff he needs for NonStopYacht.com, the company he is setting up in Barcelona. Spanish employers share his...
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Minister sued for reforms barter
Australian education minister David Kemp is being sued over claims that he has contravened the government's Workplace Relations Act by trying to coerce universities into adopting anti-union policies...
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Sweden leads world into new age of learning
Uppsala University, founded in 1477, might be Sweden's oldest, but its new learning lab means it is looking towards the future. The facility is part of the Swedish Learning Lab (SLL), a collaborative...
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Pounds 2 million given for scholarships
Canadian company Nortel Networks is to spend Pounds 2 million on university scholarships and will create 2,000 high-technology jobs in Europe this year, writes Tim Greenhalgh. The company's aim is to...