On the move
Oona King, Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, has been elected to the board of the British Council as vice-chair. She replaces Peter Mandelson, who had to forgo his recent appointment after being...
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Glittering prizes
Jurgen Baumert, professor of education at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has received the first European Latsis Prize, worth 100,000 Swiss francs (Pounds 40,000). The...
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The wall the Czechs built to keep the Roma away
Construction of a concrete wall to separate unemployed Gypsy families from the rest of the community is threatening to destabilise the delicate political balance of the Czech Republic. The two-metre-...
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Shady side of bright ideas
New Zealand is gearing up for elections. Bryan Gould looks at the sense behind ruling party slogans. It is all change in New Zealand. The white paper on tertiary education, which preoccupied the...
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Parties vie for votes with loan schemes
WELLINGTON With student debt standing at more than NZ$3 billion (Pounds 937 million), the student loan scheme will be a major issue in New Zealand in this month's general election. The key parties...
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Delhi School asks alumni for aid as cash crisis looms
NEW DELHI The Delhi School of Economics - regarded as India's equivalent of the London School of Economics, and where the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen taught in the 1960s - is on the verge of...
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Serb call for free elections
BELGRADE The Serbian organisation Otpor (Resistance) emerged from a year of underground activity to launch a campaign of demonstrations last week against the regime of Yugoslav president Slobodan...
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El-Ayun
Students at the University of El-Ayun, the capital of Western Sahara, clashed with Morrocan police during a demonstration calling for the United Nations to speed up plans for a referendum on...
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Roskilde
The Viking Ship Museum at Roskilde, Denmark, is to construct the world's first full-size replica of a Viking ship based on one found in Roskilde Fjord. The original 30-metre-long ship was for 60...
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Kuala Lumpur
Twenty University of Malaya students have threatened the Associated Press with legal action if it does not retract a report about the motives for a demonstration last month. Students denied the...
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Skills diaspora goes into reverse
DURBAN Sansa wants to make contact with more skilled South Africans abroad. Information from Lynda Loxton on: + 21 461 7321 or + 82 784 4621, email: mlloyd@hiddingh.uct.ac.za. Or visit its website at...
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Israel offers Bedouins a study route
THE NEGEV A record number of 200 Bedouin students, 85 of them women, have enrolled for degree courses this year at Israel's Ben-Gurion University in the Negev Desert, posing a major challenge for the...
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Capitalism's annex
Philip Fine reports on an Ottawa union conference on commercialisation The military effort that drove many basic scientists towards applied research in the second world war is being replayed by...
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Net plan to 'free' scholarly papers
Librarians and computer scientists worldwide have joined forces to propose the creation of a single "virtual archive" from which papers by any academic in any discipline can be accessed with ease on...
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Venture uses chaos to get telecom control
The University of York is teaming up with networks solutions provider Nortel Networks to create organised chaos in a bid to revolutionise telecommunications traffic management, writes Tim Greenhalgh...