Finds query China's past
AN INTERNATIONAL conference on the Mysteries of Ancient China last weekend was told that the established perception of the centrifugal evolution of Chinese civilisation is out of date. The conference...
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Cambridge boasts state school rise
Cambridge University increased its intake of state school students again this year, but students are demanding an investigation into the continued existence of an "old-boy" influence on admissions....
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Foot care feels the takeover pinch
The University of Westminster's threatened podiatric medicine division could be taken over by the University of Brunel. Plans to close the division were announced earlier this year but have met...
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Screen search for siblings
MORE THAN 1,500 sets of brothers and sisters are being enlisted across the United Kingdom in a bid to discover the genes responsible for high blood pressure. Researchers at Aberdeen, Cambridge,...
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Tories bust the record on crime
Conservative policy has failed to tackle Britain's chronic youth crime problem, according to research by Luton University. Researchers from the university centre for crime study say that the number...
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Optometrists keep computer's eye on driving
A COMPUTER model simulating human vision could help improve road safety, University of Wales scientists believe. Researchers there are familiar with the physics and biochemistry of individual...
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Pupils pool brains to improve GCSEs
TEACHING children to think for themselves can dramatically improve children's exam performance, educationists at King's College, London, have shown. A study by the college's school of education...
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Grim warning on student funding
A new OECD report says rising enrolment and stagnating budgets will make it harder than ever for member countries to maintain per capita spending. Stella Hughes reports. The Organisation for Economic...
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Australia reverts to full-cost tuition fees
LEGISLATION that allows universities to charge Australian students full fees for the first time in 20 years and which sharply raises the charges that all students must pay finally passed through the...
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Race row unsettles campus coffers
A bitter dispute over Asian immigration and government subsidies to aborigines has alarmed senior academics in Australia. They have warned that the tenor of a national debate about race could damage...
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Evasion of the body snatchers
The captain of a small fishing boat got quite a scare when a box he had been hired to dump at sea turned out to contain a skull, syringes and other medical waste mixed with human ashes. When the box...
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Strikers call for union rights
GRADUATE teaching assistants at the University of California have staged their longest strike yet over their demand to be recognised as employees rather than students. And they are promising a second...
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East meets western prejudice
WEST European universities need their own Tempus cooperation programme to appreciate their eastern counterparts better, a leading Czech academic has warned. Eva Valentov , director of the University...
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Germany abandons fee reform
GERMAN education ministers have unveiled sweeping plans to reform higher education in order to make the system more cost-effective and competitive internationally. Under their proposals, students...
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Serb minister hits back
SERBIA'S education ministry has condemned the "blind, destructive" student protests against the government's annulment of local elections. After almost two weeks of demonstrations, the ministry...