Row over three-tier fee brews
AUSTRALIAN universities have suffered a dramatic drop in applications this year, with academics and students claiming that increased tuition charges are the cause. Vice-chancellors called for an...
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Pro-Saddam support from Palestinians
PALESTINIAN students demonstrating at the height of the Gulf crisis were exhibiting anti-Israeli or anti-West sentiments rather than simply pro-Iraq sympathies, according to observers. While hundreds...
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Family aid rule eased
THREE of the United States top universities have made it easier for relatively well-off students and their families to afford rocketing tuition fees. Princeton University was first to change the...
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Students resort to soup kitchens
ALMOST three-quarters of Canadian universities and colleges are regularly handing out food to students, most of whom are finding their loans or part-time jobs not stretching far enough. According to...
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New pledge to minority in Romania
Romanian president Emil Constantinescu has promised that mother-tongue higher education will be available to all young ethnic Hungarians in Romania, beginning with the next academic year - providing...
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Students from University of Pristina have established their own "independent union"
Students from the "Serbianised" University of Pristina have established their own "independent union", the agenda of which includes dialogue with their ethnic-Albanian opposite numbers from the "...
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Professor of cliches earns a commonplace censure
A professor at a leading Madrid university is to be suspended from all teaching duties for six months after an investigation found he had been using "racial, sexual, social and ideological...
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France fails to earn from its research
France is not making the most of its research findings, according to statistics released by the Observatory of Science and Technology. In its biennial report the OST claims that France's share of...
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Students sue for their cash
Siberian law students dissatisfied with the low level of their maintenance grants are taking their college to court. The case against the Irkutsk State Academy of Economics will be heard later this...
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Learning to love the dome
What is it about the Millennium Dome that makes hearts sink, instead of rising as Peter Mandelson would wish? It has its humorous aspects, like the fact that a part of the structure for spiritual...
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How to commune with Nature
It should be easy to find out about science. After all, open publication of results is an article of faith for most researchers. But in practice it is almost impossible. There is so much published...
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What price lifelong learning?
We have superb universities and colleges that help maintain our position as a world leader in technology, finance, design, manufacturing and creative industries." The government's consultative...
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After flawed consultation, flawed results
As the Higher Education Funding Council for England starts considering responses to its questions on the future of research assessment, John Pratt says damage limitation is the best that can be hoped...
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Opportunities to live and learn
David Blunkett calls for a national debate aimed at creating a renaissance in adult learning The Green paper on lifelong learning, The Learning Age, published this week, recognises that in the 21st...
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Schooled in Islam
Shabbir Akhtar is wrong to generalise that the ulama are mere "slaves of the Book" (THES, February 13). For over a year, until last August, I worked in the Library of Congress's Cairo field office,...