Entering the dragon
British academics are struggling to catch up with their US and Australian rivals in the race to exploit a potentially lucrative Chinese market opening up to the West. Harriet Swain reports China does...
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Thai girl, 14, good teeth ... $2K
From the forests of Brazil to the suburbs of Paris, slavery is big business - million people big. Kevin Bales reports Recently I interviewed a young woman I'll call Seba. This animated 22-year-old...
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Writing on the wall for goddesses
We live in an age of pictures rather than words. The result? Assertive women and a return to Goddess worship. Leonard Shlain reports On a tour of Mediterranean archaeological sites a few years ago, I...
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week So it is finally over. Jeremy Isaacs's 24-part Cold War series, made at the behest of CNN owner Ted Turner, reaches its...
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Bulgarians flock to Vienna
VIENNA Bulgarians now constitute the largest number of foreign students at one of Austria's largest universities. Out of a total student population of 22,000 at the University of Economics in Vienna...
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French develop abbey habit
PARIS French students are discovering that the best way to improve their exam grades is to shut themselves away with monks. As the distractions of everyday life become harder to resist, a stay in an...
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Ireland acts over high-tech skills shortage
DUBLIN The Irish government has announced an initiative aimed at heading off potential skill shortages in the information technology sector. An additional 5,400 higher education places will be...
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Agony aunt
Q. My department is using more and more computer-aided learning and I detect that some of my students are becoming bored with pointing and clicking. How can this be avoided? A. Peter Murray-Rust,...
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Radcliffe melds with Harvard
BOSTON Radcliffe College, the 120-year-old sister school of Harvard University, will cease to exist as an independent institution under a long-anticipated merger plan revealed last week. The...
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Star Turn
Students at Glasgow University put a German intellectual slant on their sketches of disaster movies and Blind Date. Olga Wojtas sits in the audience at the end-of-term session Alison Phipps's German...
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Make a friend of a paperbin
When in doubt, throw it out. Phil Race gives some tips on how lecturers can cut their workload and the stress that plays havoc with their health "I'm already working a 70-hour week." "With these...
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NZ court forces Gould to rethink
WELLINGTON The powers of Waikato University vice-chancellor Bryan Gould have been curbed in a high court ruling that has been hailed as a landmark by New Zealand's Association of University Staff....
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How to teach with excellence
WHAT. Henry Ellington presents his seven golden rules for becoming an excellent teacher when working at tertiary level. WHY. Tertiary-level teachers are having to change their way of work to provide...
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Computer-deprived students end boycott but remain defiant
LIBREVILLE Students at Libreville's Universite Omar Bongo in Gabon have suspended a three-month boycott of classes and street demonstrations in protest at the absence of computers and internet...
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Old saloon opens to imbibers of learning
MELBOURNE Melbourne's Curzon Hotel lost its liquor licence in 1907 because of "unruly behaviour on the premises". While unruly behaviour can never be ruled out when ideas clash, it is unlikely ever...