Over the next year South Africa's National Commission on Higher Education will investigate ways of transforming the sector in line with new national goals, with crucial implications for the country's...
Signatures are rapidly being collected in university circles in Hungary for a petition to save the proposed 1996 international exhibition, intended to commemorate the 1,100th anniversary of the...
The bicentenaries of two of France's most prestigious grandes ecoles, l'Ecole Polytechnique last spring and Ulm (l'Ecole Normale Superieure) this autumn, have been the occasion of much celebration...
Glasgow University is a prizewinner for its visitor centre, the first in the country, and a symbol of the university's determination to become more open to a wider public than staff and students. "A...
Designing a self-righting buoy or packaging for emergency medical supplies to be dropped by parachute are just two of the projects which have engaged the minds of young people in the north-east...
Encouraging Europe's farmers to diversify into forestry is the aim of the Pounds 1 million Beam Project, funded by the European Union, and based at the school of agriculture and forest science at the...
Babies are being denied vital nutrients by mothers who feed them fish and chicken rather than red meat, according to a study at Surrey University. The research, by Jackie Stordy and Jane Morgan,...
University industrial liaison officials last week met representatives from leading companies that fund research as part of a series of talks aimed at establishing new arrangements for ownership of...
As well as some excellent universities, Canada can claim to have given the world two of this century's sharpest academic wits, with John Kenneth Galbraith following in the footsteps of Stephen...
Charities upset that the national lottery might hamper their fundraising are comforting themselves that, in order to take part, competitors must both drag themselves down to the shops and have a fair...
Employment experts said this week that job prospects for next year's graduates are bleak. The Institute for Employment Studies says the graduate market remains characterised by "surpluses rather than...
In Frederick Crews's splendid article (THES, March 3) dealing with the responses to his attack on Freud, he comments that his original essay continues to attract more attention than all of his...
Frederick Crews makes a number of basic factual errors in his "triumphalist" critical attack on psychoanalysis. First, he makes the absurd assumption that clinical psychoanalysis has not changed...