Humans budgeted
The lifetime cost to society of each extra person could be anything up to Pounds 60,000, say economists from Yale University. William Nordhaus and Joseph Boyer calculated the lifetime cost to society...
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Gateway clashes
(Photograph) - Gateway clashes: student supporters of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party fought with police at the gate of Dhaka's Bangla Academy earlier this month. They accused the...
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Followships
St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill Honorary fellowships have been conferred on: Lionel Blue, rabbi and regular broadcaster and contributor to BBC Radio 4 programmes; Pete Postlethwaite,...
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DNA courts doubt
The fate of countless defendants may depend on the way in which DNA evidence is presented to a jury, says Jonathan Koehler, associate professor of behavioural decision-making at the University of...
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A bone to chew
Dentists could act as a reliable screen for women at high risk from osteoporosis, Jean Wactawski-Wende of the State University of New York-Buffalo school of medicine and dental medicine, told the...
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Twin peaks of growth
Studies of identical twins at the Universite Laval in Quebec, Canada, have produced evidence to confirm the role of genes in obesity. Twelve pairs of young adult male identical twins were overfed by...
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Cities speak a lingo of their own
LOCAL accents in almost all main North American cities are diverging at an unprecedented rate and new dialects are emerging among white English-speakers, according to linguists. The changes, very...
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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,...