Fees infuriate Oz students
Rowdy student protests at two Australian universities last week prevented the councils of the two institutions going ahead with plans to apply full-cost fees to home students. The protests were the...
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Axed entry exams raise a storm
Greek education secretary Gera-simos Arsenis has announced that the Panhellenic examinations for university entrance are to be abolished with open entry from the year 2000. But he has not said where...
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Welsh wizardry keeps chemists in touch
community pharmacists in Wales, and potentially anywhere in the world, will soon be able to keep in touch with the latest pharmaceutical advances using a handheld computer. The pioneering educational...
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Serbian blames Uncle Sam
VOJISLAV Seselj, once a dissident academic and now leader of the extreme-nationalist Serbian Radical Party, has accused the United States of financing the Student Protest 96/97 movement. The leaders...
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The placebo dilemma
Jack Howell (THES, January 19) suggests that an alternative therapy is not invalidated if it improves a medical condition by "the placebo effect". This contradicts his earlier view that a double-...