Same-sex university to last 100 days
MADELEINE Albright, Benazir Bhutto and Hillary Clinton all graduated from one: now German academics have come closer to creating a women's university to produce the leaders of tomorrow. A women's...
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Tough task for new agency
Funding council chiefs have called for the swift introduction of a quality "kite-marking" system for universities and colleges involved in the fast-growing multi-billion pound overseas franchising...
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Anti-corruption drive in Cambodia
Getting rid of corruption and violence in colleges are two of the main goals of Cambodia's new education minister as he tries to build a functioning education system. Cambodian students have long...
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Seatless shortlisted
Bryan Davies, Labour's spokesman on further and higher education, and Alan Howarth, the former Conservative minister who crossed the floor in 1995, have both been shortlisted, along with two others,...
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Prizewinning abuser jailed
Nobel prize winner Daniel Carleton Gadjusek will spend a year behind bars after pleading guilty to two counts of sex abuse on a boy he adopted from Micronesia, in the Pacific Ocean. Professor...
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Tax gives food for thought
Food studies lecturer Stella Walsh is to monitor the diet and lifestyles of a group of pensioners in Leeds to discover what impact the introduction of VAT on fuel bills is having on their quality of...
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CVCP axe over pay bargainers
THE COMMITTEE of Vice Chancellors and Principals is reviewing the future of the universities' pay bargaining body and may recommend its revamping or scrapping. The threat to the Universities and...
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Ancient waterworld
The remains of Scotland's ancient floating houses, built on the lochs and inhabited from the Bronze Age to the 17th century, are for the first time being studied under water, with techniques used...
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Mutant oil palms come to aid of margarine and soap industries
The margarine and soap industries could benefit from British research into improving techniques for the harvesting of oil palm fruits in Malaysia and South East Asia. Researchers at the Open...
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Green team tackle waste dilemma
Two research councils have joined forces to launch a Pounds 7.5 million research programme on waste and pollution management. The initiative by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...
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Spanish academics want more change
Despite being described by Spain's national assessment body as "satisfactory", some academics believe further reforms are needed in the country's university entrance examinations. Some changes were...
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Dial-a-course by touch phone cuts paperwork
For the first time in Australia, and possibly the world, students seeking a university place in Victoria will apply to the state Tertiary Admissions Centre by punching in numbers on a telephone,...
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South African quality quest
South Africa's Committee of University Principals is to establish a quality promotion unit along the lines of Britain's Higher Education Quality Council to monitor and advise on academic standards....
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Confusion as centre holds
Gordon F. Sander reports on a Social Democrat's attempt to innovate while turning back the tide of market reform. A year after replacing a Conservative government which extensively decentralised...