Students who can't cut the umbilical cord
Walking on to campus last April, I found the place covered with posters produced by the student counselling service, Nightline. They carried a picture of Frankenstein with the slogan: Revision Time?...
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Deakin lays off 40 staff in first wave
THE FIRST round of university staff cuts began in Australia last week when Deakin University in Victoria shed 40 academics. A total of 170 academics and general staff at Deakin will lose their jobs...
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Applicants dry up in face of fees
APPLICATIONS to Victorian universities have fallen sharply for the second year in a row, prompting fears that the recent hike in tuition charges by the federal government has exacerbated a trend...
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Shake-up soon for Latvia
The University of Latvia faces a shakeup following a report from the United States-based Mellon Foundation which found it in a state of "stagnation". This conclusion, according to minister of state...
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French research puts accent on wealth creation
France's public research funding will be channelled towards wealth-creating sectors under plans set out this month. But angry researchers are calling this a way of "transferring public funds to the...
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Frauds in the flowerbed
Genetic fingerprinting is to help combat counterfeit varieties of plants in garden centres across Europe. Researchers in Scotland, Germany, the Netherlands and France are collaborating on a Pounds...
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Challenge of the novel
THES reporters survey today's higher education sector to spot tomorrow's growing points. Britain's higher education system has expanded beyond all recognition in recent years, yet there are still...
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MPs back fees rally
The Committee of Vice Chancellor and Principals has been accused of "holding a gun" to the heads of students over tuition fees. Chris Faddy, president of the University of Huddersfield student union...
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Suspended Glasgow fine arts head resigns
Pavel Buchler, head of the fine art department at Glasgow School of Art's, left the college this week following a series of disciplinary hearings. A joint statement signed by Mr Buchler and the...
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Lecturer brushes up Welsh
An academic appointed to a Welsh-language lectureship by the University of Wales, Bangor, has stopped teaching for a year while she takes Welsh lessons. Surrey-born Pam Michael, who has learned to...
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Caped crusader
(Photograph) - Batman Sarah Bundie scales the law faculty at Birmingham University to raise money for the renovation of the Great Hall
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German tops minority league
A comparative study of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Union's 48 minority languages identifies German spoken in Belgium and Italy, and counted as a minority language by the EU...
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Chinese whispers
One or two facts are likely to have been missing from a fact-finding tour for Chinese educationists around British further education colleges last week. Organised by the Association of Colleges, it...
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Upwards and backwards
(Photograph) - Dr Bill Barnes of Exeter University, seen here in Kitley Caves, Devon, is using laser analysis of stalagmites to map historic weather patterns. His team have found evidence of the...