Don't create 'cash cows', Sir Ron warned
Britain's popularity with fee-paying foreign students will be jeopardised if the funding regime proposed by Sir Ron Dearing makes facilities uncompetitive, a British Council official has warned....
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St Chad's CV man resigns
The principal of a Durham University college has resigned three months after inaccuracies were spotted in lists of his qualifications. The Reverend Doctor Duane Wade-Hampton Arnold, who has been on...
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Teachers must learn too
LIFELONG learning campaigners have produced recommendations for adult education including calls for radical changes in teaching theory and practice. A Campaign for Learning report, produced from a...
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Broader canvas for art schools
After a year of bids, negotiations, deals and internal wrangles, Europe's art school heads are hoping their aspirations for 1997 are already in the frame. More than 700 of them gathered in Lisbon...
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Private schools dominate
Students from private schools still significantly outnumber state school entrants at Oxford University, but the elite institution expects to redress the imbalance following the abolition of its "...
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Ring-pull
(Photograph) - Ring-pull: Claire Archibald, a first-year fashion student at Glasgow Caledonian University, models her design of ring-pull headgear to publicise the university's new waste management...
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Access fears over Higher Still
The proposals for the "Higher Still" reform of the Scottish post-16 exam system are raising concerns about the provision of access courses for unqualified adult returners in Scotland. The proposed...
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Malaria linked to weather
A UNIQUE experiment to predict weather conditions over Southern Africa could save thousands of lives, researchers at Liverpool University revealed this week. A team from the university's geography...
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Tropical holiday destinations
More of us than ever before are taking huge health risks by heading for tropical holiday destinations without the necessary precautionary vaccinations, say doctors at the Liverpool School of Tropical...
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Methanol fuel tailored for cars
SCIENTISTS at Essex University have developed a new catalyst for cars which could mean more efficient and cleaner transport. Researchers in the department of biological and chemical sciences have...
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Virtual reality provides clues to clumsiness
CLUMSINESS in children is not always the result of an awkward or careless nature; often it is a symptom of a condition affecting about one in 20 pupils at primary school. Developmental Co-ordination...
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Rome's heirs neglect Latin
Academics in Italy have launched a campaign to defend what little Latin and Greek is still taught in Italian schools, and possibly to reintroduce compulsory Latin for children aged ten to 14. The...
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La Sapienza University
(Photograph) - Police used tear gas to separate rival student factions who occupied faculties of Rome's La Sapienza University in two weeks of pre-Christmas clashes between left-wing and right-wing...
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Bequest bottled
A Paris university plagued by a long-running asbestos problem on its Jussieu campus has received some consolation - the first vintage of a wine it inherited from a former researcher has arrived....
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Students say it with loo rolls
Serbian academics have spoken out in support of students who have staged more than six weeks of protests against the annulment of local government elections in which opposition parties claimed...