China signs book deal
The Chinese government has established a special fund to support and promote key academic books. Starting this year the State Press and Publication Administration will set aside 10 million yuan (...
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Students face three year wait
Students in Sri Lanka taking their A levels this month may have to wait three years before being admitted to university. The youth uprising between 1987-90 led to the closure of universities for...
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Rich kids dominate degree block
Social differences are increasing within France's two million strong student population according to the most detailed-ever survey of French students, writes Stella Hughes. More than ,000 students...
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Soros withdraws threat to stop research funding
The Soros Foundation has called off its threat to freeze funding for research and higher education in Belarus. The government last week agreed that foundation money should be exempt from the 40 per...
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IQ tests to nurture gifted
I agree with James Tooley and Richard Lynn (THES, July 7, 28) in that subject-specific IQ tests would target the individual needs of schoolchildren. There is little point in forcing children to learn...
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Sasakawa slips between the lines
For all his immense wealth and power, Ryoichi Sasakawa's death last week from heart failure, at the age of 96, was recorded in Japan with a brevity that betrayed the most intense discomfort. At once...
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De Boishue book sparks race row
A heated row has blown up over allegedly racist passages in a book written by France's secretary of state for higher education, Jean de Boishue. The opposition Socialist Party has called for his...
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Universities ordered to repay tuition fees
Universities in Portugal are faced with having to refund students' tuition fees they paid illegally, following a council of rectors' ruling. The mistake - a misinterpretation of the 1994 tuition fees...
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X-ray boost for industry
An X-ray system devised for use in medical research at the University of Wales College of Medicine is now being applied to the needs of industry, writes Iola Smith. Originally installed to help...
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Diamond idea to defeat cruel sea
The cruel sea can soon wear out even the hardest of industrial materials used by the oil industry such as tungsten carbide, used to make seabed valves. Engineers at Southampton, Oxford and South Bank...
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High fibre contact could lead to cancer
Deaths from mesothelioma, the cancer of the lungs linked exclusively to asbestos fibre exposure, are set to reach 3,000 a year in this country by the year 2020. Nearly all of these deaths are likely...
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Designer approach to production line
Encouraging companies to incorporate design in their manufacturing strategy is the aim of Cardiff Institute's innovative Design Engineering Research Centre. Focusing on helping industry to create...
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Yeltsin is 'dead duck'
President Yeltsin is a "dead duck president" says Matthew Wyman, who is researching elections and electoral change in Russia for Keele University's European Research Centre. It is unlikely that the...
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Second thoughts on Scots mentors
The Scottish Office Education Department has postponed its controversial mentor scheme for student teachers following lack of support from schools. College of education staff fear that the scheme,...
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University College Salford's brass band in Sao Paulo, Brazil
(Photograph) - Top brass: The University College Salford's brass band is currently in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on a two-week concert tour in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Cultura Inglesa, an...