New universities to ease crowding
The Sri Lankan government is to establish three new universities to increase the student intake to 15,000 per year. They will be at Anuradhapura, Ampara and Ratnapura. New faculties are also to open...
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Oil giant bids for campus
Corporations and multinationals can apply for licenses to set up private universities in Malaysia early in 1996, once legislation has been passed. Applications will be considered immediately after...
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Sporting types called to account
The United States education department, in a move that threatens to fire up the long-running controversy over sexism in sports, is to require colleges and universities to account publicly for what...
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Colleges face 15 per cent cuts
Universities in Canada's most populous province have been dealt a serious blow to their budgets by funding cuts of 15 per cent announced by the Ontario government. The Council of Ontario Universities...
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Ideas to prevent cultural collision
Olga Wotjas reports from the Society for Research into Higher Education at Heriot-Watt University. British academics may mistake politeness and respect from overseas students as shiftiness and...
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All made-up
(Photograph) - All made-up: students and staff on the hair and beauty course at Chesterfield College raised money for charity by making up models.
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Number's up
Alumni to be proud of no 24: Peter Davis, the National Lottery regulator, described by one paper last year as a certainty for a knighthood at the end of his term of office, and by himself as "a...
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Natural selection
And hello to Sarah Darwin, who works at the Linnaean Society. Naturally selected for the job after tough competition.
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Bard comments
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. A dispute has erupted in the heart of England where a bronze bust of the poet Rabindranath Tagore has been presented to the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford...
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Tender touch
(Photograph) - Tender touch: the University of Sunderland sponsored an exhibition in London this term by Virginia Bodman, its senior lecturer in charge of painting, called "Strong Meat". Her images...
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V-cs plan paper on funding ideas
Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has asked university heads to produce a consultation paper on funding. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals will announce its plans to publish...
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Fears of loans' cost
Universities would subsidise the cost of processing new privatised student loans under Government proposals, it emerged this week. Loan applications already cost higher education institutions Pounds...
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Living in the fast lane
Julius Tomin ended a seven-day fast in Oxford on Monday with a bowl of chicken broth. "This was the best hunger strike of my life. Not eating for a week renewed my strength," he said. Czech dissident...
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Union split
The split between further and higher education trade unions continued to jeopardise hopes of a joint pay claim next year. In a stinging letter Association of University Teachers assistant general...
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Gene genie
Geneticists agree they have taken a risk by releasing a long genetic sequence, thought to contain a gene that can make people susceptible to breast cancer, onto the Internet. The scientists, from the...