A speedy recovery
Commercial cultivation of shellfish may have less harmful long-term effects on mud-dwelling creatures than previously thought. Tests on the Solway by scientists at the Scottish Office Agriculture,...
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Pollution-free cars get green light
Hybrid electric vehicles will cut exhaust emissions and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, researchers heard at a recent Warwick University seminar. But such high performance pollution-free cars...
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Train lines kept safe from prying eyes
When ScotRail train drivers make confidential reports on safety problems to Strathclyde University researchers, they can be sure that that confidence is respected. The research findings are protected...
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Freight rides on the crest of a wave
The Government's proposals to ease congestion on roads come as major motorways are already carrying more vehicles than their designed capacity, and heavy goods traffic is forecast to rise by almost...
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Union calls for world boycott
CANADA's professor lobby has called for a worldwide boycott of a university due to open in 1999 in the Vancouver area. The Canadian Association of University Teachers is trying to ensure that job...
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Gaelic is alive and piping
IT IS an odd experience to be met at the gates of an academic institution by a piper but then Cape Breton's Gaelic College is no ordinary limb of further education. As to why a windswept rock off the...
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Student dies in fraternity revels
THE DRINK-related death of a Louisiana student in new college year revelry has put pressure on "animal house" fraternities to clean up their act. Benjamin Wynne, 20, died in hospital with a blood...
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Colleges get little budget relief from US recovery
THE BUOYANCY of the United States economy is doing little to lift universities and colleges, according to the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. Higher education's share of...
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Italian lessons in sexual favours
A voluntary resistance group, which offers help to female victims of sexual harassment at the University of Bari, is promoting Italy's first national forum on the problem of the relationship between...
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Guards eject lecturer
A CHINESE lecturer from the University of California was recently denied entry into mainland China on the grounds that she had criticised the Chinese leadership, writes Vera Rich. Gong Xiaoxia, who...
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Kosovo protests at Serb standstill
ETHNIC Albanian students in Kosovo are planning a campaign of peaceful protests against the continuing Serbian "occupation" universities and schools. For the past six years children and students from...
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Israeli pans quality of 'quickie' degrees
The quality of degrees offered by British and other overseas universities to Israeli students via distance learning or franchised teaching has again come under fire from an Israeli academic. David...
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Home calls for Uzbeks
Uzbekistan has summoned home 2,000 students from Turkey alleging that conditions are not safe enough there. However, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reported an Uzbek official claiming the real reason is...
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The elitism of 'people like us'
TWO FACTORS will shape the future of the university in Britain: trends and political policy. Both major political parties agree that higher education must accord with economic circumstances. This...
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Time to face up to the big picture
Summer ended this week with wind and rain and horrifying sudden death in a Paris underpass. The tidal wave of emotion, which has carried a sea of flowers and messages up against the sternly barred...