Minister faces race charge
(Photograph) - Court proceedings went ahead this week against Jean de Boishue, the French secretary of state for higher education, over allegedly racist passages in a book he published last May....
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Moscow seeks to energise science
Russian premier Viktor Chernomyrdin has set the development of science as a state major priority, after the first meeting of the government's new Commission for Science and Technical Policy. The...
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Greek fox charms chancellors
Greek university chancellors have decided against closing their institutions for an indefinite period after the prime minister assured them that the government would examine their grievances,...
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Scandinavian cousins pool resources
A Danish and a Swedish university have joined forces to create the largest centre for research and studies in the natural sciences in northern Europe. Oresunds University will begin operations next...
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Bosnia soothes student fears
Bosnian students who fled the country to avoid the fighting will not be compelled to serve in the armed forces against their will, according to the Bosnian ministry of defence. An official of the...
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Chinese scholars to major in Singapore
The Singaporean government has granted full scholarships to 350 students from the People's Republic of China. The students will study in Singapore from between three and five years and receive...
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Student aid scheme creaks into action
A financial aid scheme for South Africa's 70,000 needy students at universities and technikons has finally been given the go ahead. But with less than four months to go before the start of the 1996...
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Academics get serious in casual employment tussle
Australian academics have stepped up their campaign over the increasing employment of casual staff. Less than 60 per cent of academic staff are in tenured positions, down from more than 80 per cent...
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Ocean experts fathom out sea layers
A mission to probe life at the bottom of the Bay of Biscay starts soon with a grant of more than Ecu4 million (Pounds 3.3 million)from the European Union. The work follows dramatic discoveries over...
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Electric boots heal the sole
Rami Abboud finds the latest fashions in ladies' footwear "horrible". But his concern is clinical rather than aesthetic: he is a biomedical and rehabilitation engineer at Dundee University, and...
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Divorce dictates trends in 1990s Britain
Researchers from Lancaster University are investigating new trends in migration suggesting that divorce rather than jobs is setting the pattern in 1990s Britain. People in Lancashire and Yorkshire...
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Visions for business
Top business executives will be able to "experiment" with the future with the help of computer-aided systems being developed by researchers at Plymouth University. The university's business school...
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Preaching to the catalytic converted
Pioneering work at Cambridge University on catalysts, which could make cheaper catalytic converters for cleaning up car exhaust, has been rewarded with a Pounds 2 million grant this week. The use of...
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All aboard
(Photograph) - All aboard: Lisa Clayton, the first woman to sail single-handed and unaided round the world, was awarded an honorary degree of doctor of science by the University of Birmingham earlier...
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Leeds v-c to chair CVCP finance group
Alan Wilson, vice chancellor of Leeds University, is to chair the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals group on university finances, resources and management. The group is one of nine created...