Danes reshufle research
RESPONSIBILITY for Danish university research funding is transferring from the ministry of education in a shakeup following March's general elections. Research will in future be handled by the...
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Setback for the genome project
ITALIAN biologist Renato Dulbecco, Nobel prize winner for medicine in 1975 for his research on DNA-cancer links and one of the most revered names in Italian scientific research, has said he may...
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First move towards Euro-PhD
THE FRENCH and Italian rectors' conferences have agreed on a research doctorate recognised by both countries and jointly regulated and funded. The two countries will contribute the equivalent of...
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Criminals lodged on campus
ACCUSATIONS that the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has become a criminal base for guns and drugs trafficking are being investigated by the local district attorney. The investigation was...
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Peking celebrates a hundred
Oxford University vice-chancellor Colin Lucas is to share a platform with Chinese president Jiang Zemin during celebrations for Peking University's 100th anniversary next week. President Jiang will...
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British universities are rushing to China on undergraduate recruitment drives
British universities are rushing to China on undergraduate recruitment drives to make up for the shortfall they have suffered from other countries in the region. According to the British Council in...
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Chinese push social science
SPENDING on social science research in China has doubled in the past five years, but academics are still calling for more money. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences last year received 177 million...
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West report kindles critics' fire
PROPOSALS for a "student centred" method of funding Australia's universities and criticisms of current practices have raised an outcry among academics, students, postgraduates, vice-chancellors and...
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Gun law
(Photograph) - Bangladeshi police arrest Dhaka University students suspected of being involved in campus gun battles. One student was killed and several injured in an hour-long fire fight between...
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Students sue to stop staff strike
A STRIKE by lecturers at a Canadian university was settled two days after students served legal papers on both its president and the head of the staff union. A tentative agreement has been reached...
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Undergrads lose out
THE Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has savaged the standards of teaching for undergraduates at top United States research universities. In a report just published, it concludes...
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Collaboration is the future
"PLUS ca change, plus c'est la meme chose" was possibly not an expression used by Tony Blair in his recent speech to the French National Assembly in Paris. But it is a fitting starting point for my...
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One year older and no richer
Labour has achieved much in its first year in office. Potentially most significant is its success in carrying through John Major's initiative and securing a peace deal in Northern Ireland - if...
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Excellence and equity
Amartya Sen, internationally renowned economist, says changes to higher education must address how to increase access for all while maintaining standards. Mark Twain described cauliflower as "nothing...
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Reasons for famine
PATRICK McGregor is surely right to place considerable responsibility on the Treasury for the scale of Irish mortality in the famine of 1845-50 (THES, April 10). However, by placing so much weight on...