Students forced to squat in Holland
First-year students are resorting to squatting in empty buildings in Amsterdam, as the housing situation in the Dutch capital becomes increasingly desperate. Ten thousand new students arrive every...
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Rigging alleged in Prague law exam
More than 400 would-be law students at Charles University in the Czech Republic are resitting entrance exams this month after allegations of rigging forced their cancellation in June. Claims surfaced...
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An easy cross for ' il magnifico'
The rector of the University of Teramo, in the mountainous Abruzzo region of central Italy, has become captain of one of the best local amateur football teams. Luciano Russi, who in his youth played...
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Ugandan lecturers told to get PhDs
Lecturers at Uganda's Makerere University have until October 2002 to achieve a PhD or risk being sacked under recommendations from a university committee appointed to improve academic standards. ...
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Oz unis' good name at risk
Australia's universities risk their reputations being tainted by the alleged malpractice of some of the country's less scrupulous overseas education providers, it was claimed this week. As the...
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Bench mark: hooded Chilean students
(Photograph) - Bench mark: hooded Chilean students set up a street blockade in protest at the September 11 1973 coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, now under house arrest in Britain, that toppled...
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Mini web server wires up intelligent buildings
The world's smallest web server - barely larger than a matchhead - has been built at the University of Massachusetts. The iPic - developed by H. Shrikumar, a graduate student in the department of...
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British breed thrives in Bulldogs' country
When Stephen Portch, Somerset-born and University of Reading-educated, was named universities chancellor in the southern American state of Georgia, he was welcomed with open stereotypes. "Will...
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Ingenta pact opens portals
Ingenta, the online scholarly information provider formed through a public/private partnership with the University of Bath, has struck a deal with CABI Publishing to create a series of web portals in...
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Italians offered tutors by email
The Italian student magazine Campus has enlisted ten academics - all enthusiasts of computer communications - to act as email tutors for any student in need of assistance. In its September issue, the...
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The net is where inhibitions are shed and secrets revealed
People are losing their inhibitions when they swap emails or complete questionnaires on the internet, according to Adam Joinson of the University of Glamorgan. At a British Psychology Society...
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Unearthly presence: Virtual Visions
(Photograph) - Unearthly presence: Virtual Visions is an exhibition of computer-generated prints, created by Mike King, reader in computer art and animation at London Guildhall University. The prints...
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For London's new-media sector, image is everything
London's new-media industry pays an average Pounds 25,000 salary to staff who are predominantly non-graduates. It prefers trendy areas to those where rents are low. Little wonder that many companies...
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Cosy connections feed the fire of scientific sceptics
This is the week when Britain should celebrate its science. So it is a pity that Sir Richard Sykes used his presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science to talk UK...
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Make a stand on quality
Debate over quality assurance in UK universities has gone on long enough. Wrangling about numbers or no numbers, light or not-so-light touches, and criticism based not on the quality of institutions...