Vienna
The Austrian minister for research and science, Caspar Einem, has called for the 1934 concordat with Rome to be revised. It means the appointment of staff in university theology departments has to be...
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Freetown
The Sierra Leone government has ordered the reopening of the country's Fourah-Bay University after the Liberian-backed rebels were driven from the capital, Freetown. Lecturers and students who...
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Moscow
A group of Russian mafiosi who robbed a currency exchange office at Moscow State University 18 months ago have been given prison sentences following a city court case. The gang was caught after a...
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Lecturers greet pay offer with walk-out
As the academic year began in ߣߣÊÓƵ last week, students who turned up for classes at the universities of Sydney and New South Wales found their lecturers had gone on strike. In the first skirmish...
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Thais pursue free information
Decades of elitism and cronyism in the Thai education system could be swept away by an official information act that is forcing universities, schools and the country's conservative bureaucracy into a...
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Japan plans fast-track for high-fliers
University students with exceptional grades should be allowed to graduate after three years, instead of the present four, according to a report from Japan's University Council. The suggestion is part...
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Data shortage hurts policy
Canadian universities are making policy decisions with inadequate data, according to a Toronto researcher specialising in student surveys. Paul Grayson, director of the Institute for Social Research...
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US battle for students
Traditional non-profit universities in the United States are retaliating against their profit-led competitors after watching them syphon off large numbers of students. Despite claiming that the up-...
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Armenians try to mend fences with Turkey
A group of academics from Armenia made a rare three-day visit to Turkey in an attempt to thaw relations between the two countries. Last month's visit is seen as the first step towards improved...
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Body facts fail medical
Teaching material for students studying human physiology at Liverpool John Moores University is so flawed and misleading that experts have dismissed it as "incorrect", "inadequate" and "outmoded"....
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The mistakes
JMU's material contradicts a standard undergraduate text, An Introduction to Human Physiology, by J. H. Green, by stating that: "Generally, respiratory movements are under the control of the...
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Boost for Welsh research
Welsh Universities will receive an 11 per cent increase to their research grant for 1999-2000, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales has confirmed. Institutions will share Pounds 50 million...
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Survey will monitor impact of student fees
Incomes and spending patterns of more than 3,000 students will go under the microscope this summer in a government-commissioned survey designed to measure the impact of fees. The survey, directed by...
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Chaucerian project is winner in awards
The newly established Arts and Humanities Research Board this week announced its first grant winners, with awards totalling Pounds 4.6 million. The board announced more than 300 research awards,...
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Company to profit from chasing student debts
A second Pounds 1 billion lump of debt owed by students has been sold to the private sector. The successful company, which stands to profit from recouping the debt on student loans taken out since...