Questions for cash
A competition run by the World Intellectual Property Organisation for university students has attracted competition itself. Students were asked to write an essay addressing the question "What does...
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Wine, women and Wills
Ah. How sweet. St Andrews University principal Brian Lang has had a tough few weeks, what with all the hysteria surrounding soon-to-be student Prince William and the allegations against Lang of...
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Web star is has-bean
Probably the world's most famous coffee pot has just percolated its last. Ten years ago, researchers at the University of Cambridge trained a camera on their coffee pot to ensure that those in other...
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On the move
Channel Four news presenter Jon Snow is to take up the role of chancellor at Oxford Brookes University next Tuesday. He succeeds Baroness Kennedy. Nairn Wilson, president of the General Dental...
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Eyewitness: Rocky road to slavery reparations
The complexities of holding nation-states legally responsible for atrocities, particularly those committed several generations ago, were demonstrated forcefully when African hopes of an apology and...
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World View: Attending to grass roots
An outreach of the University of Namibia is helping to develop the new nation. Robert Kirby-Harris reports Namibia has made significant progress since independence in 1990 - the last African state to...
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World Watch
Wellington New Zealand's eight universities have frozen student fees for the second year running after the government stepped in with a one-off cash sweetener. Vice-chancellors had opposed a...
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End of line for the satellite campus
Nigeria has closed all university satellite campuses amid fears of falling standards and the over-commercialisation of tertiary education. Peter Okebukola, executive secretary of the National...
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Ethical student alliance takes on multinational
A coalition of US and Canadian students is accusing a corporation that runs most of the continent's college cafeterias of having too much involvement in the private prison industry. For the past 18...
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Students rally to root out race hate
When the new semester began at Pennsylvania State University last month, just 4 per cent of its students were African-Americans. For some, even that is too many. The past academic year has been...
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Popular Oz faces growing visa fraud
An increase in visa fraud has accompanied the rise in demand from foreign students to enrol in ߣߣÊÓƵn education. Figures released by the federal government last week revealed that ߣߣÊÓƵn...
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Stem-cell debate ruffles wary Germany
A debate over embryonic stem-cell research in the shadow of a Nazi past has left German scientists afraid that they will be left behind in the race to develop therapies. Otmar Wiestler and Oliver...
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France lays out welcome mat
Foreigners who want to study in France should soon find it easier to take up residence and support themselves there. Education minister Jack Lang and minister of foreign affairs Hubert Vedrine have...
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Finland loses its vocation
More than 70 per cent of Finnish school-leavers are choosing to continue their study by enrolling in higher education rather than on vocational courses. According to the ministry of education, the...
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Minister bites back at angry students
Austria's education minister has hit back at students who have complained about the introduction of fees. Elisabeth Gehrer said that 40 per cent of them did not even bother to take exams while...