Awards
The Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. The Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library have awarded prizes to the following for 1997: Vicki Caron, professor, United States; Nicholas...
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Towering genius rebuilt
TWO YEARS of painstaking detective work by an Edinburgh University fine art expert has uncovered the authorship of a newly discovered Renaissance manuscript on architecture. The manuscript was...
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Lecturer wins a second hearing
YORK University must open a second grievance inquiry into procedures for promoting academic staff following a recommendation from the lord chancellor. The lord chancellor looked into complaints...
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Millennium magic
This week the government published its plans for lifelong learning and its responses to both the Kennedy and the Dearing reports. Below, The THES examines reaction to the first two, while on the...
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Cyprus colleges dismayed at rejection of degrees
PRIVATE colleges in Cyprus are dismayed at an education ministry decision to refuse them degree-awarding powers despite positive academic reports. The colleges, established to meet demand during the...
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Postgraduates balk at 400 per cent hike in costs
THE MALAYSIAN education minister has said that fee rises of up to 400 per cent for postgraduate courses in several Malaysian universities are "reasonable and minimal" because the original fees were...
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Row over three-tier fee brews
AUSTRALIAN universities have suffered a dramatic drop in applications this year, with academics and students claiming that increased tuition charges are the cause. Vice-chancellors called for an...
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Pro-Saddam support from Palestinians
PALESTINIAN students demonstrating at the height of the Gulf crisis were exhibiting anti-Israeli or anti-West sentiments rather than simply pro-Iraq sympathies, according to observers. While hundreds...
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Family aid rule eased
THREE of the United States top universities have made it easier for relatively well-off students and their families to afford rocketing tuition fees. Princeton University was first to change the...
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Students resort to soup kitchens
ALMOST three-quarters of Canadian universities and colleges are regularly handing out food to students, most of whom are finding their loans or part-time jobs not stretching far enough. According to...
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New pledge to minority in Romania
Romanian president Emil Constantinescu has promised that mother-tongue higher education will be available to all young ethnic Hungarians in Romania, beginning with the next academic year - providing...
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Students from University of Pristina have established their own "independent union"
Students from the "Serbianised" University of Pristina have established their own "independent union", the agenda of which includes dialogue with their ethnic-Albanian opposite numbers from the "...
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Professor of cliches earns a commonplace censure
A professor at a leading Madrid university is to be suspended from all teaching duties for six months after an investigation found he had been using "racial, sexual, social and ideological...
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France fails to earn from its research
France is not making the most of its research findings, according to statistics released by the Observatory of Science and Technology. In its biennial report the OST claims that France's share of...
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Students sue for their cash
Siberian law students dissatisfied with the low level of their maintenance grants are taking their college to court. The case against the Irkutsk State Academy of Economics will be heard later this...