Rangoon
Burmese academic Salai Tun Than has been released after serving 18 months of a seven-year sentence for staging a one-man demonstration in support of human rights and democracy. He was on hunger...
Search
-
-
Algiers
The Algerian government is attempting to attract back some of the 66,000 academics who left the country between 1994 and 1999.
-
Rome
The first woman to head a Vatican academy was nominated last week by Pope John Paul II. Letizia Pani Ermini, professor of archaeology at Rome's La Sapienza University, became president of the...
-
Palestine wins £3.9m in aid
The European Commission and the World Bank are to inject emergency funding into Palestine's university system, which has been facing heavy financial pressures during the past three years of conflict...
-
French protest over fees hike
France's elite Institute of Political Studies plans to break an educational taboo by increasing fees by up to three times, but with safeguards to protect poor students. Richard Descoings, director of...
-
Will you stand for Blair's bloody-mindedness?
The Conservatives would ditch the dogma and deliver a fair deal for students and universities, insists Damian Green A future Conservative government's pledge to scrap Labour's tuition fees and get...
-
Harry Kroto
Our country must be the only one in which passengers never know from which platform their trains will leave - if they leave at all Why is it that the nations that led the 'high-tech' war cannot move...
-
Don's diary: communicable diseases
Saturday Yesterday, the World Health Organisation website showed only two recorded cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) in Malaysia, fewer than in the UK. But Singapore is nearby, so it...
-
Lawyers get it in the neck
Lawyers have long been described as blood-suckers. Now Canadian researchers have identified exactly how. At next week's vampire conference, Sarah Swan and Sharon Sutherland of the University of...
-
A not so sure bet
Oxford University has not ruled out appointing an insider as vice-chancellor, despite speculation that its selection committee would follow Cambridge's lead by looking abroad. But a well-placed...
-
Age-old problem
Are you worried that modern genetic technology - offering the scope to breed humans to order - poses new problems? Think again. At last week's meeting of the Human Genetics Commission (page 9),...
-
Madman seeks explosive ally
Chemist and former stage technician Roy Lowry of the University of Plymouth is planning to create the world's largest Catherine wheel - but needs someone to assist him. Dr Lowry has the go-ahead from...
-
Why I ... support Charles Clarke and his wish to see relevance in academe
I find myself in the interesting position of defending Charles Clarke. Interesting, because I am also chastising the Department for Education and Skills and the Higher Education Funding Council for...
-
Put Alexander in the boardroom
Classics useless? Not for our top business leaders, says Partha Bose. Charles Clarke's ludicrous tirade against the classics and his rather feeble attempt at clarifying his view on medieval studies...
-
Columbus and my voyage of discovery
Problem-based learning is common in maths and the sciences but can it work in the humanities? Natalie Zacek tried it out on her second-year history students Sitting on a train or bus, it is tempting...