Rio de Janeiro
Teaching staff at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and the Universidade Federal Fluminense are on strike in protest against the federal government's continuing refusal to enter negotiations...
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Belgrade
Serbian education minister Milovoje Simonvic was killed in a traffic accident last week on a motorway near Velika Plana. Mr Simonovic was a member of the Yugoslav United Left party, which is headed...
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Prague
Charles University students are profiting from their knowledge of law school entrance exams by selling answers to would-be students. Detailed answers to the thick book of possible questions given by...
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Scientists in the dock
In France, scientific error has become a matter for the courts. Wendy Barnaby asks if British scientists can be similarly tried At a recent Royal Society meeting, the Director General of the Ecole...
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Louisiana Lush
How policy transfer can improve the integration of HIV prevention services into primary health care in sub-Saharan Africa. Policies to improve public health in low-income countries are often devised...
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Sowing those seeds of doubt
Those trying to regulate genetically modified crop trials are wasting their time and public money, says Alan McHughen Trying to conduct a risk assessment based on gene escape via pollen is a waste of...
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Size matters in chromosomes
When it comes to the chromosomes that determine sex, it seems that often size is important and it is the male who winds up with far less to boast about than the female. At least in the cases of...
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GM corn is not so deadly
A new study into the effects that genetically modified Bt corn, engineered to produce a natural insecticide, may have on insects it was not intended to affect has contradicted controversial research...
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City dweller needs umbrella
The rain-soaked dash home from work that the weather forecasters somehow overlooked is one of the pitfalls of urban life. Now meteorologists have been able to reveal the degree to which the...
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Visitors' days numbered
The visitor system for dealing with student complaints is "doomed", higher education minister Baroness Blackstone said this week. Her comments spell the end of an archaic system - dominated by...
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Disadvantaged targeted for extra medical places
The government was expected to exceed its stated target of 1,000 extra medical places by 2005, with the announcement this week of two new medical schools and more medical places at King's College,...
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Job freeze at Durham takes staff by surprise
The threat of going into the red has forced Durham University to freeze all new appointments as part of a cost-cutting strategy that has taken academics by surprise. In addition to the freeze, all...
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E-learning is complex issue
Stirling University's deputy principal Sally Brown said this week that the notion that new technologies allowed teaching to be improved more cheaply was "fundamentally misconceived", writes Olga...
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Big brands key to e-university
The e-university, trumpeted by education secretary David Blunkett in his speech at Greenwich in February, is in trouble as elite institutions hit snags. They fear that the project, which aims to...
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Cubie faces quizzing by student officers
Andrew Cubie is to be quizzed next month on the work underpinning his independent report by incoming student officers who want to see his proposals adopted throughout the UK. He is to speak at the...