Funding overhaul in Hungary
Three years after Hungarian politicians created an uproar in academia by sacking thousands and introducing performance-linked pay, plans are being drafted to change the way universities are funded....
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Italy's big six form network for elite
Italy's six top higher education institutes, catering for an elite of graduate and postgraduate students, have formed a permanent national network of cooperation and joint ventures in teaching and...
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Ethnic divide foils UN efforts
The University of Pristina's mining and metallurgy faculty in the border city of Mitrovice continues to be divided along ethnic lines despite efforts by the international community to reconstruct a...
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Minister quits after failing to reform
Andrei Marga has resigned as Romania's education minister after criticism from MPs that the country's education system faces collapse. In an open letter, the three leading opposition representatives...
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Saving fragile forests
David Thomas reports on the international effort to preserve the lifeblood of Vietnamese coastal communities from further destruction Between 1961 and 1971, 19 million gallons of the deadly herbicide...
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Star turn
Pat Leon meets a woman who helps her students unlock the power of archives and separate the political from the personal Under the blue and copper eye of the Mass-Observation archive clock, Dorothy...
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Time runs out for station Mir
SPACE FOR RENT OR TO LET: Russian-built space station. 4 reception rooms, 2 bedrooms. Built in the Gorbachev era to full Soviet standards. Internal decoration and some external work required. Faulty...
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Why I ...believe we should take sit-ins over tuition fees to Westminster
Justine Stephens General secretary Goldsmiths College student union We sat in the Department for Education and Employment for four and a half hours last Friday and were then offered the chance to...
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Readers' reactions
Last month in The THES... Frank Furedi argued that bureaucracy has killed the spirit of academics David Yeomans Liverpool University What research has gone into the validating of the bureaucratic...
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Wider access
Birmingham-based internet services provider DIALnet is to launch initiatives aimed at increasing broadband net access for further education colleges, widening teaching resources and providing free...
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Deadly colours of caterpillars
A team of Stirling University scientists hopes to solve the mystery of why an African species of caterpillar changes colour in crowded conditions. The African army worm is a major pest in East Africa...
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Approaching a cure for croup
Scottish scientists believe they are a step closer to wiping out one of the world's most distressing childhood conditions, after winning a grant from an American drugs company to develop new drugs...
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Technology drive by new coalition
Austria's ruling parties have made technology and innovation a priority and have put a controversial figure in charge. Michael Gardner reports Headlines around the world have focused on the arrival...
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Dreams, dogs, design
John Wood asks students to take on a persona when writing projects, to dream in the written, not just the visual form. Jennifer Currie hears his ideas John Wood has every reason to be pleased. He has...
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Agony aunt
Q A tutor in our department suffers from BO. We had ignored the problem, but a student has complained that seminars are intolerable. What should we do? A First, consider who has what problem. The...