Dying for a degree
An interesting new report from the Annals of Improbable Research, compiled by Mike Adams of Eastern Connecticut State University. He claims that years of study have revealed that a student's...
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Eyewitness
Ahliya University professor Farouk Kadouda, a prominent critic of the Sudanese government, returned home on October 31 to find his teenage daughter beaten unconscious with a warning note for him by...
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World watch
The standstill on work to reduce the tilt on the leaning tower of Pisa has led to the order that only three of the tower's seven bells be rung on Sundays and public holidays. Project coordinator...
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World watch
Nine Palestinian academics from Nablus and Ramallah have been held by the Palestinian Authority for signing a petition criticising the authority after the Oslo Agreements. Nine members of the...
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World watch
Malaysia's private universities may only grant degrees after three-and-a-half years of study, the education ministry has ruled. Some students were receiving degrees after only two-and-a-half years,...
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World watch
Saudi Arabian religious authorities have declared Kuwait University political science professor, Ghamlan Al Issa, an apostate who should be killed. Professor Al Issa said in a magazine interview that...
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World watch
Al Hazar University, a world centre of Islamic learning, has denied women's medical school enrolment to a belly-dancer who had a sex-change operation, despite a Cairo court verdict in her favour. Al...
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World watch
China's education ministry and Hangzhou provincial government will spend 1.4 billion yuan (Pounds 105 million) on Zhejiang University over three years to give it world-class status. Zhejiang is one...
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Leaders of the saner pack
Closer links between academia and non-governmental organisations will benefit both, Brenda Gourley says In those democracies where often a less than impressive proportion of citizens actually vote,...
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Scientist on treason charge
A Russian academic from the prestigious USA and Canada Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been charged with treason. Meanwhile, a visiting professor from the United States has...
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Serbs rail at sanctions
BELGRADE A leading Serbian intellectual and opponent of the regime of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic has said that western sanctions are destroying the lives of academics in Serbia. Marija...
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Catholic colleges in US bow to Vatican
BOSTON American bishops have overwhelmingly approved controversial Vatican guidelines for Catholic universities that require their presidents publicly to express a commitment to the faith and...
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Women athletes thrown by foul play
The equal treatment of women university athletes off the field is in question in the United States just as the law, fan support and even Fifa, world football's governing body, was starting to close...
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Dons dubbed 'sex pests'
NAIROBI Egerton University in Kenya has suspended four senior lecturers for sexually harassing female students and demanding bribes in return for good grades. The four lecturers were named last week...
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UK lab takes star role
An industry-academia collaboration that aims to become the Hollywood of "anytime, anywhere" learning was launched on Monday in London. The Learning Laboratory involves 16 companies and the University...