It's good to talk, say Balkan debaters
Two young female students who lived through 87 days of Nato bombing of their northern Serbian city last month engaged in debate with two students from the University of Sarajevo, which suffered an...
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Illegal students prompt strike
Staff at the controversial University of Seine-Saint-Denis last week voted to strike after an employee was allegedly attacked by foreign students demanding the right to live in France. The students...
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Business spirit not found on campus
Universities are failing to demonstrate the entrepreneurial drive that the government expects, according to a new report. Academic and administrative workloads, the lack of incentives and the...
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Trendsetting free website
A leading online news and information provider for the fashion industry is to spend Pounds 10 million providing design students with free access to its site. The company, Worth Global Style Network (...
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Pearson increases its stakes in online
International media company Pearson has signed an agreement to provide educational material and learning tools to America Online. The new partnership will cover professional training and higher...
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Time to address democratic deficit in English regions
This week's theatre over Labour's choice for London mayor shows again that the party that brought devolved government to the UK is having trouble living with the consequences. The Greater London...
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Educated people are no luxury, they're essential
The World Bank has underlined the role of higher education in rescuing the third world, say Mamphela Ramphele and Henry Rosovsky Last week, the World Bank's president marked a sea-change in thinking...
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Fears over top pupil tests
More than half the schools in the north of England will not be offering advanced extension awards, the extra test for high flying A-level students, thus resurrecting early fears that the AEAs are...
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Colleges warn of funding gap
Colleges are warning that the Pounds 34.4 million allocated to fund the new A-level curriculum is not enough. As the Further Education Funding Council this week revealed its provisional funding...
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Sex change
(Photograph) - Female students at Glasgow University this week changed the names on university buildings to celebrate women rather than men. The students' representative council women's group marked...
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Competition for university status
A shake-out has begun in higher education colleges, with institutions racing to find their place in the rapidly changing higher education market. College heads are weighing up opportunities and...
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Call for more places
Further and higher education colleges have called for fresh expansion, while welcoming the extra student places they have been offered for next year. Large research-led universities won the lion's...
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A lack of funding and a hostile administration are holding back Welsh astronomical research into the origins of life
Where did we come from? The radical answer proposed by Fred Hoyle and I in the late 1970s was that we came from space. Our genes and those of all living forms on Earth were brought here by comets,...
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Sun, surf and a deradly melanoma
Australia could be turning the corner on its skin cancer epidemic. Julia Hinde explores the research frontier Up to two out of every three Australians will develop skin cancer during their lifetime....
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Charles is not the only one with distinctive ears
The eyes are not the only windows of the soul. Research by a team of scientists is seeking to confer equal status on the ears too, at least as far as identifying individuals is concerned. Experts at...