European hopes of extra cash
Millions more Ecus could flow to special research projects under the Framework programme if the European Commission convinces ministers and MEPs that member economies are on the up-turn. The...
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Bermuda Triangle ghostbusters
A shipful of scientists with one Briton on board set sail this month to drill the ocean floor in the Bermuda Triangle . Their mission is to investigate gas hydrates, which lie below the ocean floor,...
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Axe-man changeth
Foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind has gained something of a reputation for changing his mind, viz. Scottish devolution, and Europe. He has no doubt been thrilled by last week's news that Scotland's...
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Quality sex aids
Life as a quality assessment manager may be more exciting than you think. Attending a recent QA workshop at a hotel on the outskirts of Cardiff last month, Peter Jones of Manchester Metropolitan...
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Back to the future
Unlikely quote of the week - from a newish member of London University's staff: "It's great now that the students are back." Now there's one academic who has still to be acculturated.
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Numbers to find their own level
Tony Tysome summarises the Conservative Political Centre's draft report on Higher Education. The Conservatives' National Policy Group on Higher Education says its recommendations to the Government...
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Scientist calls for meteor monitor
The risk of humankind being devastated by the impact of a meteor is so great that a world network of telescopes should be built immediately to provide an early warning system, an astronomer said last...
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DFEE cuts top posts
Tony Tysome reports on the shake-up of senior civil servants at the Department For Education and Employment. Gillian Shephard's "dream come true" - the Department For Education and Employment -...
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City listens to science voices
The Royal Society and the information technology community are trying to encourage collaboration between scientists, technologists and the City. In a lecture marking the launch of the initiative last...
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Institute nurses health
City University's Institute of Health Sciences, set up two years ago, is to double in size to nearly 2,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students this week with a Pounds 10 million contract for...
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Czechmate for Klaus tuition fee charges
Ministers in the Czech Republic have been forced into retreat over a plan to charge new students tuition fees. Opposition has proved so fierce that a law passed by the republic's council of ministers...
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Healthy interests run into trouble
Twenty-three people are to stand trial on charges of possessing forged documents to allow unqualified graduate students to enter specialist courses at Naples University medical school. Among those...
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Rebels' 'student' image attacked
President Borhanoddin Rabbani of Afghanistan has rejected the image of the Taleban insurgents, currently occupying the south-west of the country, as students of the Islamic religion and accused them...
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Ministry curbs new Israeli law courses
Officials at Israel's Ministry of Justice have issued a statement saying that only one of the new tertiary colleges will be granted approval to run courses in law. The ministry added a warning to the...
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Great expectations
David Jobbins talks to Mbulelo Mzamane about the unique problems faced in the wake of apartheid. As the second-oldest black university in sub-Saharan Africa, Fort Hare, in the remote Eastern Cape,...