Saving space
The president of Ireland, Mary Robinson, in her lecture "The Academic Space: New Frontier or Black Hole" given last week in London, made an impassioned plea for the defence of what she called "...
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Quality survey finds common ground
How does a law student at the university of Oporto in Portugal know that their university is as keen to ensure the quality of their degree as a student at the university of Utrecht in the Netherlands...
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Germany gears up for biotech top spot
The German research ministry has launched a campaign to make the country's biotechnology research the best in Europe. Research minister Jurgen Ruttgers told a meeting of experts: "Biotechnology will...
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Japan's women fight harassers
Japan's increasingly assertive female students are taking to the streets to demonstrate against sexual harassment which they say involves verbal abuse as well as physical attacks. Several hundred...
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China sets out reform guide
The Chinese State Education Commission has released more details of management measures it says are designed to deepen the reform of higher education. The system is already undergoing huge changes...
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Racial strife seeps on to campus
With the United States awash with talk of racial divides, the fallout from events like the OJ Simpson trial and the million man march on Washington are making themselves felt in the nation's campuses...
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Canberra overhauls assessments
Australia is expected to replace its system of quality assurance in higher education with annual reviews of universities that focus on a single issue. After three rounds in which a federal committee...
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Bashed spuds spur pioneers
Britain's potato industry is rooting for researchers at Nottingham Trent University in their bid to understand what causes potatoes to become bruised. Rejecting such potatoes costs the industry...
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Terminal anarchist subjected to strip-search
Jesse Hirsh had a great time publishing a political newsletter, using the email accounts of his stepbrother and a friend at the University of Toronto - until the day police officers came to haul him...
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Senator swings loan scythe
The American Council on Education, which represents more than 1,500 colleges and universities, was engaged last week in an all out effort to stave off cuts in student loan assistance amid the battle...
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Phosphate remedy for acid lake
Environmental scientists have found a paradoxical way of solving the problem of acidic lakes - by adding to them a substance that causes the other major environmental lake problem, eutrophication....
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Machine, mend thyself
A Pounds 5.1 million British-Finnish initiative is developing automated production lines whose machine tools are sufficiently intelligent to diagnose their own faults. The European Union-funded...
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Welsh dust reveals light-fingered felons
Researchers at the University of Wales in Swansea are helping in the fight against crime by developing a new type of powder to uncover fingerprints. Prints found at the scene of a crime are not...
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Youths face gambling lure
Seven years of research into gambling addiction has concluded that up to 6 per cent of adolescents could become pathologically addicted to slot machines. The research, published this week, highlights...
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Clue to Down's heart riddle
Molecular geneticists at Imperial College have provided a clue to what goes wrong when babies with Down's syndrome are born with heart defects. Nearly half of all babies with the syndrome are born...