African-American vernacular English is thriving
African-American vernacular English, the distinct language used by many black Americans, is thriving and shifting further from white American speech. There is still debate over whether it was...
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El Nino's cousin
FOR THE past four months the tropical Atlantic has warmed on a geographic scale not seen since the 1960s, leaving scientists mystified. As storms and hurricanes generated by El Nino batter North and...
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Local option for Middlesex
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia Middlesex University, which faces an estimated 40 per cent drop in students from South-east Asia, has set...
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Oz expects language shakeout
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia Australia's universities may be uncertain about what Asia's financial crisis will do to overseas student...
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Uganda entices students to army
Uganda plans to modernise its army by retiring officers and replacing them with university graduates. About 1,000 officers are to be sacked and replaced with 400 graduates in an effort to cut down on...
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Soros woos North Korea
Financier George Soros has established a pilot project to help support North Korea's first moves to a mixed economy. A group of seven North Korean graduate students are studying law, economics and...
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Strikers face 'no work, no pay' clampdown
INDIA's University Grants Commission has dusted down an old rule that bars salary payments to striking lecturers and told universities to enforce it strictly in an effort to check "indiscipline". It...
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V-c slated for police swoop
The vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Omoniyi Adewoye, has angered his traditionally conservative senate by allegedly becoming personally involved in the arrest of three senate members,...
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Caffeine and creativity
An east coast Canadian university is finding that many higher education innovations can be realised by simply sitting four people around a table, writes Philip Fine. The University of New Brunswick...
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Mexico's familiar woes
Mexico is six time zones away from Britain, and has a markedly different political system and history. But the higher education issues making the news at the beginning of 1998 have a distinctly...
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New England, old bigotry
A little unexpected history awaited when a student started digging through the dusty archives at Dartmouth College, part of America's elite Ivy League, in the picturesque town of Hanover, New...
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West said to ignore big issues
Business leaders and vice chancellors in Australia have delivered a scathing response to a report on the financial and policy directions of the nation's higher education system over the next two...
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Magnificent rector backs out of break-up
Giuseppe D'Ascenzo was elected Rettore Magnifico of Rome's La Sapienza University last autumn after a long succession of inconclusive and hotly contested ballots. After alliances had been made and...
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Coastal caravan on seaside pilgrimage to save ecology
TWENTY-ONE European architectural schools are involved in Coastwise Europe, a project to illustrate the impact of increasing wealth and leisure on Europe's lengthy coastlines. Coastwise Europe sprang...
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Quality worries for Danes
DENMARK's rectors and students fear that a planned comprehensive reform of 195 institutions that includes giving them powers to award much-criticised bachelor degrees, will "dilute academic education...