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,...
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Colleges on brink of insolvency
Fifty-eight colleges are expecting to face technical insolvency according to unpublished financial forecasts received by the Further Education Funding Council in March. A further 303 colleges - more...
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Trunk call
(Photograph) - Liverpool University veterinary graduate Oliver Turner on his way to finishing his swim across the English Channel. Mr Turner, aged 24, took 12 hours and 33 minutes to complete the...
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Blair banks on loans
The Labour Party is planning a two-stage reform of student awards and loans. The party's education team, which met academics and union leaders for a policy-shaping seminar in Oxford this week, plans...
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Cancer virus identified
Kaposi's sarcoma, one of the commonest cancers in young men in the West, is almost certainly caused by a human herpes virus, scientists from the Institute of Cancer Research and University College...
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Students wise up to danger of drink
An "alcohol awareness" campaign for students? This might seem a trifle unnecessary yet it is precisely what the National Union of Students and the alcohol advice group Drinkline launched this week at...
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Labour think tank calls for ministry of research
Big cuts in Britain's military research and development spending, no further moves to privatise public sector research laboratories and the creation of a ministry for research are among the key...
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Taylor made
Science minister Ian Taylor launched a Pounds 40 million competition aimed at supporting priorities identified by the Technology Foresight initiative this week. Outline bids for research funding...