Tiny team keeps tabs on the big spenders
Has the Higher Education Funding Council for England the power and money for the job, Phil Baty asks JUST seven auditors and two support staff at the Higher Education Funding Council for England are...
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Cash help for young luvvies
THE government is to launch a new support scheme for dance and drama students to resolve a recruitment crisis. A funding package expected to provide students at independent dance and drama schools...
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Childcare boost for student parents
Welsh further and higher education institutions are being urged to pay more attention to childcare as part of government moves to reduce the number of people claiming benefits. The organisation...
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Hope wings eternal for elderly exiles
The Wing Hong (Eternal Hope) Chinese centre in Glasgow is packed. Groups of elderly people are chatting to one another, a number of them keeping an eye on the elaborate preparations for lunch. Some...
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Golden opportunity
A Chinese academic is travelling to the University of Edinburgh to study the biological chemistry of gold drugs. Dr Juan Zou from Beijing has been granted Pounds 33,669 for a travelling research...
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Plastic on the waves
A scientist at the University of Southampton's department of ship science has joined with the Vosper Thornycroft shipyard to be the first to use fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) materials in high-speed...
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Expat pensioners 'happy'
The myth that older people suffer isolation, financial hardship and language difficulties overseas has been scotched by the findings of a British multi-disciplinary research team with expertise in...
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Fujimori health care plan sweetens budget
PAY rises for lecturers and professors at Peruvian state universities were ruled out this year by the president at the same time as he revealed the introduction of free health insurance for students...
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Gap year lures best brains
PHILLIPS Academy, founded during the American Revolution, is consistently rated one of the best high schools in the United States. Its students go on to the top colleges and universities. Thirty-one...
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Modern melting pots
Rebecca Warden talks to student leaders about their lives in Latin America UNIVERSITIES in Latin America are facing up to the challenges of modernisation. Some countries, with Chile and Brazil in the...
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Hungary faces ire of World Bank
THE INTRODUCTION of tuition fees for higher education was one of the less pleasant features of post-communist life in Hungary. The decision of the new Hungarian government partially to eliminate them...
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'Day of Learning' cancelled
September 1, the "Day of Learning", has for decades marked the opening of the academic year in Russia. But this year 17 regions have decided to defer the return to class until the arrears of lecturer...
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Tuition fees ban turns into an election issue
GERMANY's Social Democrats have promised a nationwide ban on student fees if they win the general election on September . A new Social Democrat government would alter the framework law on higher...
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Kosovar students jailed
A Serbian-run court in Prizren, Kosovo, jailed nine Kosovar-Albanian students on charges of "terrorism" in late August. The nine were students of the Xhedet Doda college of education and active in...
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American's thesis on a manly sport
popular interest in mountain climbing has inspired an American academic to conduct research this summer into British mountaineers who, he says, started climbing not only to demonstrate their manhood...