BA in pooch preening
Physics and chemistry are still losing their allure for university students but pooch pampering is on the up, according to the University of Central Lancashire. It is advertising a part-time post as...
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On the move
Lane Hughston, former director of derivative product risk management at Merrill Lynch, London, has been appointed the first professor of financial mathematics at King's College, London. Two other...
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Glittering prizes
The Royal Academy of Engineering has awarded its first postdoctoral research fellowships to: James Hall, 31, lecturer in the department of civil engineering, University of Bristol, to carry out...
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South Africa
(Photograph) - Frustrated post-apartheid expectations and stubborn unemployment levels among blacks are the bugbears of Thabo Mbeki's new government in South Africa. The plunge in the international...
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The Hague
The Hague Academic libraries in the Netherlands have joined forces to prevent publishers increasing journal prices above the rate of inflation. Publishers will have to give advance notice of annual...
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Overcrowding
Pisa Overcrowding in Italy's 70 universities and higher education institutes is being blamed for an average annual dropout rate of 66 per cent. The Organizzazione di Cooperazione e di Sviluppo...
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Student demonstrations in Iran
Tehran In the wake of July's student demonstrations in Iran, president Mohammad Khatami has defined universities as "privileged places for dialogue and tolerance" and called on students to "draw...
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Students forced to squat in Holland
First-year students are resorting to squatting in empty buildings in Amsterdam, as the housing situation in the Dutch capital becomes increasingly desperate. Ten thousand new students arrive every...
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Rigging alleged in Prague law exam
More than 400 would-be law students at Charles University in the Czech Republic are resitting entrance exams this month after allegations of rigging forced their cancellation in June. Claims surfaced...
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An easy cross for ' il magnifico'
The rector of the University of Teramo, in the mountainous Abruzzo region of central Italy, has become captain of one of the best local amateur football teams. Luciano Russi, who in his youth played...
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Ugandan lecturers told to get PhDs
Lecturers at Uganda's Makerere University have until October 2002 to achieve a PhD or risk being sacked under recommendations from a university committee appointed to improve academic standards. ...
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Oz unis' good name at risk
Australia's universities risk their reputations being tainted by the alleged malpractice of some of the country's less scrupulous overseas education providers, it was claimed this week. As the...
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Bench mark: hooded Chilean students
(Photograph) - Bench mark: hooded Chilean students set up a street blockade in protest at the September 11 1973 coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, now under house arrest in Britain, that toppled...
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Mini web server wires up intelligent buildings
The world's smallest web server - barely larger than a matchhead - has been built at the University of Massachusetts. The iPic - developed by H. Shrikumar, a graduate student in the department of...
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British breed thrives in Bulldogs' country
When Stephen Portch, Somerset-born and University of Reading-educated, was named universities chancellor in the southern American state of Georgia, he was welcomed with open stereotypes. "Will...