Fibre-optic olive branches
Helena Flusfeder reports on Israel's expanding virtual OU classrooms. An experimental satellite system is enabling lecturers at Israel's Open University to teach distant classes simultaneously...
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Citation takes fast track to a dead end
Jim Smith finds that the Net is no place to anchor references in serious academic studies. I came across some material on the Internet while researching United Nations peacekeeping some years ago...
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Budgets rise for high-tech learning
Rapid changes are taking place in United States colleges and universities, including a greater emphasis on student learning and more use of computer technology, according to the annual survey of...
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CD link rebuilds course guide
Prospective higher education students can now access essential information on more than 32,000 courses in the United Kingdom through a multimedia CD-Rom. StudyLink UK from Education MultiMedia...
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Kent cashes its Net egg
The University of Kent has sold Internet provider EUnet GB to the American company Performance Systems International for Pounds 2.94 million in cash and stock. EUnet GB began in the 1980s as an...
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Standards struggle on home pages
Australia's universities have been forced to grapple with a dramatic new problem: how to set down standards for individual home pages on the World-Wide Web without infringing academic freedom. With...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a friend of Einstein's who was similarly handy with equations: "'The youth that was I', you may come to speak of him in the third person, indeed the protagonist of...
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Whence Pounds 10bn?
The Conservative Political Centre's policy document on higher education shows just how far higher education policy is becoming a matter of consensus. Because of this it may not offer politicians much...
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Great expectations
David Jobbins talks to Mbulelo Mzamane about the unique problems faced in the wake of apartheid. As the second-oldest black university in sub-Saharan Africa, Fort Hare, in the remote Eastern Cape,...
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Ministry curbs new Israeli law courses
Officials at Israel's Ministry of Justice have issued a statement saying that only one of the new tertiary colleges will be granted approval to run courses in law. The ministry added a warning to the...
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Rebels' 'student' image attacked
President Borhanoddin Rabbani of Afghanistan has rejected the image of the Taleban insurgents, currently occupying the south-west of the country, as students of the Islamic religion and accused them...
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Australia reveals huge 40-year expansion
Enrolments in Australian universities have jumped 20-fold from 31,000 students to 622,000 in 40 years. This is one of the astonishing changes in a set of higher education "time series tables"...
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Ministers call for science link-ups
Science ministers from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development held decisive talks on internationalising science policy in Paris last week. Jo Ritzen, Netherlands minister of...
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Healthy interests run into trouble
Twenty-three people are to stand trial on charges of possessing forged documents to allow unqualified graduate students to enter specialist courses at Naples University medical school. Among those...
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Czechmate for Klaus tuition fee charges
Ministers in the Czech Republic have been forced into retreat over a plan to charge new students tuition fees. Opposition has proved so fierce that a law passed by the republic's council of ministers...