Labour eyes miss action
Panic-stricken manoeuvres within the Conservative Party to escape blame, bribe voters or try a new leader, reveal more clearly than anything else could that Labour is riding for victory. What would a...
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Key issues for Nolan
Guidance on proper behaviour seems to be spilling out of every official organisation in further and higher education. The Higher Education Funding Council has published its rules for council members...
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Scotland's MANs of the moment
Every year Scottish university principals and senior lay and academic representatives have held a residential meeting at The Burn, a country house sited in spectacular scenery beside a salmon river....
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McGill cure for medical ethics
In just eight years the McGill University centre for medicine, ethics and law has built a reputation as a leading national and international institution. Director Margaret Somerville says the impetus...
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Student entry goes on-line
Universities are turning to computers to make the application process less time-wasting and less expensive in the United States. Students like applying "on-line" because it makes their applications...
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Barcelona now turns to Socrates
Two universities in north-east Spain reflect on the successor to Erasmus. Rebecca Warden reports from Catalonia. Socrates, the successor to Erasmus, is to be launched formally in Paris on Monday....
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Sex splits science jobs
Massive redundancies in higher education and research in east Germany since unification have particularly hit women's jobs in natural sciences and engineering. Marion Bimmler, chairwoman of the staff...
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Jailed rector released in Macedonia
Fadilj Sulejmani, rector of the illegal Albanian-language University of Tevoto, has been released from prison in Macedonia after payment of bail of more than Pounds 45,454. He had been in custody for...
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Women in graduate studies rule roost
Women now outnumber men among Australian postgraduate students and are rapidly approaching numerical equality on higher degree courses obtained through research and coursework. Figures from the...
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Europe adopts new scheme for researchers
Josephine Stein examines a system that is tied to national pay levels. A new interim scheme for research fellowships in the Fourth Framework Programme has been adopted by the European Commission and...
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Fatah support patchy in poll
Student union elections at several Palestinian universities have produced evidence of the deeply-divided opinions on the Middle East peace process. As pressure mounted from both Israeli left-wing...
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Afrikaaner who runs with ANC ball
Easy platitudes about national unity have accompanied the rugby World Cup in South Africa like a theme tune, but when Andre Odendaal says "the excitement and the range of people who have been...
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Preset drugs provide maximum benefits
Chemists at Aberdeen University have joined forces with a bioscience company to develop a new way of delivering drugs and vaccines which could cut down on injections and improve healthcare in the...
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Pounds 1.5m sets tails wagging
Cambridge University's veterinary school is establishing a professorship in farm animal health, food science and food safety thanks to a Pounds 1.5 million grant from Marks and Spencer. The post is...
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Advertisers eat their words on family diet
Families perceive television advertising as having only a marginal influence on children's diets. The myth that parents are waging a continual battle to ensure their offspring eat healthily is also...