Protesters dig feet in over privatisation
French archaeologists called off a ten-day strike last week after the culture minister froze proposals to "privatise" compulsory excavations of particular sites before construction starts, writes...
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Dearing calls for world partners
THE question of how lifelong learning can be financed without increased government spending was raised by Lord Dearing in Melbourne last week. Speaking at the University of Melbourne, Lord Dearing...
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Romania woos minority with university
Romania is investigating establishing a multilingual university in an effort to ward off a threat by the Hungarian minority party to withdraw from the ruling coalition. A Hungarian university has...
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Campaign to scrap race policy heats up
The cultural centre at the University of Washington is a legacy of the heady days of the civil rights era, when student protesters occupied the president's offices and demanded the campus open its...
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Heads resist CTI
A review group analysing the Computers in Teaching Initiative has reported a mixed message. While the initiative is seen to be growing in importance as institutions develop more formal learning and...
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Valley chips away at cash
They use them in Russian oilfields. They use them on a United States Navy cruiser. Now 28,000 staff and students are using them at Thames Valley University. If Slough and Ealing were surrounded by...
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University of Edinburgh to issue smartcards
The University of Edinburgh has teamed up with the Bank of Scotland to issue all 22,000 students with smartcards. Students can transfer up to Pounds 100 to the card from their bank accounts. The...
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Data law is late
Researchers need to find out now whether they will breach data privacy laws says Andrew Charlesworth By tomorrow European Union member states should have implemented the 1995 EU Data Protection...
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Money must be chased but with new guidelines
For centuries universities have provided a socially useful means of laundering grubby money. Suppression of the monasteries, piracy, slavery, American robber barons' ruthless exploitation: all...
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How to kick back when you're left on the shelf
More academics should test whether New Labour can countenance argued opposition, says Angela McRobbie This week saw two seemingly conflicting events. First, the government permitted the arrest of...
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Disability, dishonesty and maths
It is horrifying that the kind of blinkered prejudice against individuals with specific learning disabilities expressed by sociologist Frank Furedi ("Examiners buckle under an avalanche of excuses",...
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Disability, dishonesty and maths
I am amazed at Frank Furedi's allegation that a learning support tutor in a university with a "respectable" sociology department can intervene in the awarding of examination marks. This practice is...
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Disability, dishonesty and maths
I was entertained to see my old comrade Frank Furedi banging on about cheats and cheating. Despite my amusement I do share his dismay at the proliferation of ill-defined disabilities among students...
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Costly cogs of war
The Economics of World War II
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Digging the dirt on coal conflict
Strikes and Solidarity