Quickie degrees feed jobs market
Italy is introducing short degrees for school-leavers who have all the qualifications for university entry but who prefer to get into the workplace quickly. University minister Luigi Berlinguer...
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Shanghai
Shanghai is building 500,000 square metres of dormitory accommodation for university students by 2000. The Chinese city's 39 institutions of higher education have 165,800 students living in...
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Copenhagen
Danes are to help Poland police scientific malpractice following at least 30 cases of gross plagiarism of biomedical articles by a group of Polish scientists. A Danish delegation will help Poland set...
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Why I ...
I believe killing by Islamic fundamentalists should be condemned Jean Y Michot Theology lecturer at Oxford University and fellow of the centre for Islamic studies This week The Observer reported that...
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Burial site digs divide Jews
Under the blistering midday sun there is not much work being done on the new motorway through the white hills of north Jerusalem. A handful of archaeologists lounge in the shade of a picnic umbrella...
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Identity cards test dress code
Turkish students applying for university registration clashed with the authorities last week over a dress code that bans Islamic head scarves and beards. Veiled women students registering at Istanbul...
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Educating in a digital future
Western universities must develop 'edutainment' on the Internet or be left behind, says Sa'ad Medhat. The Internet is redefining how we live, how we do business and how we spend our leisure time, but...
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Melbourne
Australian vice-chancellors are expanding their links with counterpart organisations overseas. So far this year, the Australian vice-chancellors' committee has signed agreements with Malaysia,...
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Kuala Lumpur
Women took the majority of first-class honours and upper second degrees in Malaysian universities this year. But what concerned Malaysia more was that they were also non-Malay, mostly Chinese and...
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Sofia
All Bulgarian university students are to pay fees for the first time next academic year. Education minister Veselin Metodiev said that it was the best answer to funding problems. Most students will...
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Reviews
WIRED UP: Young People and the Electronic Media Edited by Sue Howard, published by UCL Press, pp. 194, Pounds 13.95 ISBN 1 85728 805 X, This book is less wired than the title sounds: most of its...
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New allies train sights on export controls
Research at risk from Mandelson white paper. Tony Durham and Natasha Loder report. Arms traders and academics have formed an unlikely alliance to resist proposed controls on the export of software...
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Taking the big questions to bits
THE PHILOSOPHICAL COMPUTER: Exploratory Essays in Philosophical Computer Modeling. Patrick Grim, Gary Mar, and Paul St. Denis. MIT Press, 400pp. Pounds 33.95. ISBN 0 262 07185 1 The philosopher's...
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AUT wants a PRB
As chair of the Association of University Teachers national administrative staff committee, I want to distance that body of staff we represent from the submission of the Association of University...
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DFSDBNo admin charge here
It may make for a good story to say the University of East London is "defying advice from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals" ("Admin charge action call", THES, September 4) that all...