East Timor protests fuel backlash fears
Australia's National Union of Students is worried about a backlash against Indonesian students in the wake of the widespread protests about the Indonesian military's action in East Timor. The union...
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Youthful Canada en vogue
Canada's political scene is proving fruitful ground for study by academics. Canadian studies shows signs of being a major growth area for research. There are 328 Canadian studies centres worldwide...
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'Too lavish' managers ordered to clean up
The agency that promotes and organises programmes between French-speaking universities worldwide is accused of poor management and misappropriation of funds. The Agence Universitaire de la...
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Academics working 'little and badly' brace themselves for revolution
Italy's university ministry expects 1999-2000 to be the year in which the country's university system experiences radical change. It anticipates a host of reforms bringing about a new climate of...
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Spanish rectors crave more power
Spanish rectors believe they should have more power, a survey has revealed. The survey of Spanish rectors, council presidents and other senior higher education figures found that 95 per cent wanted...
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Israel drags its feet over licences
Forty-five of the 50 overseas university branches that have applied for licences to operate in Israel have not received them with the start of term only weeks away. Unlike the parent universities,...
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Supplementary benefit
(Photograph) - Adult learners in North Yorkshire are the guinea-pigs in a pilot project for the University for Industry launched last week. Knowledge Base, a joint venture between the University of...
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Danes lost for words on net
One adult Dane in five is so bad at English that computers, the internet and the information highway are forbidden territory. Even everyday conversations can be difficult when the people they talk to...
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Professor reads newspaper in ton-up robocar on autostrada
Alberto Broggi, professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Pavia, last week rode in a robot-driven car along 100 kilometres of motorway from Parma to Bologna. As the car cruised...
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Building a portal for the people
Chris Batt tells Sylvia Simmons why the new public library network will change lives, particularly those of academics "The clearest measure of my performance over the next three years will be that by...
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Introducing a truly open market is the only way to
THE PRIVATE SECTOR. UK public universities will have to move closer to the private sector in order to survive. In which case, they will have to change their ways, says Marcel Van Miert. The choice of...
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Don't neglect the backbone
ACADEMIC-RELATED STAFF. Any employment structure for academic-related staff should enable their careers to flourish, says Stephen Court. Academic-related staff are the unassuming backstage...
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Everybody in? Not yet
PARTICIPATION. Participation in higher education has risen but many entry barriers remain, especially for the poor. Diana Green says new developments could help bring down the hurdles. It is now a...
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Avoid statements, beat Venter at his own game
There seems to be little governments can do to stop Craig Venter and other genome capitalists making hefty royalties from human genes. This week the British and US governments are planning to do what...
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Lib Dems can drive impetus for further change
Little by little, support for mature and part-time students is improving. Higher education minister Baroness Blackstone used her speech to the vice-chancellors last week to announce extra money in...