Sir Aaron Klug
Royal Society involvement in finding up to 50 researchers to benefit from "brain gain" money announced in this week's science white paper may be controversial, but for Royal Society president Aaron...
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Glittering prizes
Blind Date host Cilla Black has been installed as an honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University, six years after declining the honour because students objected. Departing LJMU vice-...
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Not so bright sparks
The colourful programme for the British Association's Festival of Science, Creating Sparks, promises a host of delights for the autumn, including a talk by Tony Fitzpatrick of Ove Arup and Partners...
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The Hefce to success
Smirks all round at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, which recently commissioned a Mori poll to evaluate its own performance. This found that "Hefce is commonly described as...
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Turin
The University of Turin and the city's Teatro Stabileareto are to collaborate in running Italy's first diploma course in the theory and practice of theatre technique. The Teatro's new director,...
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Dalibor Vukovic
(Photograph) - Serb student Dalibor Vukovic leaves Unmik police custody in Kososvka Mitrovica on the Serbian border. His detention for alleging slapping an ethnic Albanian provoked two days of...
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Student doctors may get test compensation
Paris The French council of state has cancelled the results of the 1995 third-cycle medical exams for interns in northern and southern France because of procedural irregularities. The council upheld...
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Pretoria's plan proposes tiers and mergers but no money
Durban South African universities began to jostle for position after last week's release of a government report urging a major shake-up of higher education. The report, by the Council on Higher...
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Virtual values
The value of an honorary degree has been questioned before but rarely has one been rejected in favour of the virtual variety. Friends and former colleagues of social worker Eric Hardy have secured...
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Eyewitness
Students in southern Brazil are helping 2,200 workers, police and military forces to combat an oil spill described as the country's worst environmental disaster for 25 years. An estimated 25,143...
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A rock lands in still waters
The threat of cuts and even institution closures is stirring the sleepy, safe world of Japanese academia. Charles Jannuzi and Bern Mulvey report In sharp contrast with Japan's image as a nation known...
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New York
Serbian authorities loyal to Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic have stepped up a violent campaign against opponents, according to Human Rights Watch. In the past six weeks, police have beaten...
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Brazzaville
Anti-prostitution police patrolling top hotels in the capital cities of the two Congos have arrested several female students of medicine and pharmacy who have been slipping sleeping pills into the...
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East meets West in research rankings
Dusseldorf East German universities have strongly improved their research performance in the past five years and are now competing on a nearly even footing with their western competitors, according...
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Literati slug it out in court
Rome A long-running feud between two of Italy's most eminent professors has developed into a court battle for slander, with blow-by-blow coverage in the national press. One contender has been awarded...