Drum up cash or hit case
The Labour party's shadow chancellor, Gordon Brown, has caused some ructions in his party by proposing to remove automatic entitlement to child benefit from 16 to 19-year-olds so that the Pounds 700...
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Intellectuals arrested at Chernobyl demonstration
A Belarusian physicist is in prison without access to a lawyer and a lecturer from Minsk Polytechnic Academy in hospital with brain injuries as a result of a police attack on a rally to mark last...
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Industry's output fear
Austerity measures announced by Berlin's higher education senator Peter Radunsky have prompted a wave of outrage in its three universities. More than 26,000 students and university staff demonstrated...
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Viennese waltz on to streets in cuts protest
Austrian students are traditionally a good-natured, non-violent lot. One has to go back to 1848 to find real student radicalism. It is a standard joke that in Austria the May revolt of 1968 lasted...
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Students snub brainstorming
South Africa's National Commission on Higher Education has unveiled to the rest of the world its recently released discussion document on the future of universities. More than 30 international...
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Mummies go to the doctor
Egyptology, once seen as an arts subject, has turned to science to unlock the mysteries of mummies. Most academic departments still teach Egyptology as a history or language option. But Manchester...
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Hunt for concrete solution
A technique that reveals the progress of disease in humans, animals and plants could help stop premature corrosion in concrete. Chlorides in water are highly corrosive and cause devastating damage to...
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Pounds asks MPs for Pounds 60m
Ken Pounds, chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, has called for a Pounds 60 million fund to help it meet its financial obligations to Cern, the particle physics...
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If I were a carpenter . . .
A carpentry and joinery foundation course for women has been chosen as an Adult Learners Week award winner jointly by the European Union Social Fund and the National Institute of Adult and Continuing...
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Fending for future
After HEFCE's first annual meeting Brian Fender talked to Tony Tysome about planning a funding system responsive to society's needs. Sir Ron Dearing has until summer 1997 to chart a future course for...
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Queen's park scrapped
Queen's University's innovative Pounds 29 million plan for a research and enterprise park at the historic former Belfast gasworks has collapsed, writes Noel Mcadam. The hi-tech proposal had formed a...
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Job value scheme takes off
A consortium of more than 100 universities and colleges has signed a contract with management consultants to develop a unique job evaluation system. The system is intended to form a new basis for...
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Female fillip for male bastion
The traditionally male-dominated discipline of economics is set to attack its gender gap with the creation of a new Royal Economic Society committee. The RES executive, which meets next Thursday,...