Food facts for Europe
THE ROBERT Gordon University in Aberdeen is heading a Pounds 1 million European Union project to build a database that will help improve food quality and food safety. Biophysicist Paul Nesvadba of...
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Organ shortage hits drugs
A SHORTAGE of human livers for experiments is leaving university researchers across Europe searching for alternatives. Paul Skett, senior lecturer at the Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences at...
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Cork pops over upgrade of tech institute
Education minister Niamh Bhreathnach has landed the Irish government in an unwelcome political row just a few months before a general election. It originates in a straightforward decision to upgrade...
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Police probe degree crime
Italian police are clamping down on the illegal sale of legitimate degrees and the proliferation of bogus degrees and diplomas from obscure institutions. In the most dramatic move so far, 29...
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Reform group faces collapse
Union participants in working parties on the reform of French universities may pull out if education minister Francois Bayrou does not produce concrete proposals by the end of January. Their...
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Rector backs temps' cause
Jaume Pages, rector of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, is one of the prime movers behind attempts to improve the employment status of temporary university lecturers in Spain. A third of...
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China tightens overseas rules
THE CHINESE State Education Commission has banned overseas institutions from setting up and running programmes or setting examinations for profit in China without government approval. The commission...
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Threat of violence stalks election day
TENSION still runs high in Karachi's universities as Pakistan prepares for a general election. But allegations of torture and beatings at the University of Karachi have been overtaken by a new wave...
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Cadets allege sexual abuse
FORCED by a multi-million dollar legal battle to open its doors to women, The Citadel, South Carolina's elite military academy, is now mired in charges of sexual harassment. After two of its first...
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Dilly-dalliers cured
HELP is at hand in Quebec for students who avoid their thesis advisers or cram for exams. According to Canadian surveys, procrastination adversely affects 40-45 per cent of students. So twice a year...
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Keep the bright sparks burning
Should there be a national curriculum for higher education and if so what would it consist of? The national council of the Training and Enterprise Councils is moving that way, with its demands that...
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Wake up and get back in the same boat
National interest in the Commonwealth all but evaporated in the 1980s. Displaced by a concentration on European issues and dismissed by a prime minister who regarded the isolation of apartheid as a...
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Market forces and the charge of the fees brigade
Universities should ignore the exchequer and set their own fees, says Richard Mawditt Levels of tuition fees have become inextricably linked to what the Government is prepared to pay for higher...
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Teach yourself autonomy does not work
Developing students as autonomous learners is a proper aim for a university but not a solution to funding crises, says Grenville Wall As university finance gets tighter, exhausted staff take early...
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Pragmatic politics
Your leader (THES, January 24) made comments both on Gordon Brown's latest speech and on the salaries dispute in universities. However, you have obscured some important issues. First, by saying that...